Legal Scholars And Political Theorists
25 entries in the Legal Scholars And Political Theorists compendium.
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Alberico GentiliItalian jurist and co-founder of international law.Antonin ScaliaAssociate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1986–2016.Ben FerenczInternational jurist and City College of New York alumnus.Carl SchmittGerman jurist and Nazi Party legal theorist.Catharine A. MacKinnonFeminist legal scholar who wrote *Toward a Feminist Theory of the State* (1989).Cesare BeccariaItalian criminologist who condemned torture and the death penalty.Christopher Columbus LangdellFormalist scholar who believed law could be derived from case law alone.Clarence DarrowAmerican lawyer famed for labor and criminal defense cases.James MadisonScholar of peasant resistance and state powerJohn AustinEnglish legal theorist who developed a fully worked-out positivistic theory of law.John RawlsAmerican philosopher who revived normative political philosophy with *A Theory of Justice*Karl LlewellynAmerican legal realist and principal drafter of the Uniform Commercial Code.Lon FullerAmerican legal philosopher who argued for law's internal morality.Niccolò MachiavelliFlorentine political philosopher who sought to describe political life rationally.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.U.S. Supreme Court justice and influential legal realist.PlatoFoundational Western philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle.Richard PosnerInvestigative journalist and author of Case Closed and Killing the Dream.Roscoe PoundLegal scholar who criticized formalist approaches to the law in the early twentieth centurThomas AquinasMedieval Catholic theologian who developed classical natural law theory from Aristotelian Thomas HobbesEnglish philosopher and political theorist, author of Leviathan.Václav HavelCzech dissident, playwright, and post-communist president.William BlackstoneEnglish jurist and author of the *Commentaries on the Laws of England*.Yoram DinsteinPresident of Tel Aviv University from 1991 to 1999.Zbigniew BrzezinskiZbigniew Brzeziński was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist who served as NZiya GökalpTurkish poet whose work led to Erdoğan's 1998 political ban.
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