[{"n": "Alberico Gentili", "u": "/e/legal-scholars-and-political-theorists/alberico-gentili/", "s": "Italian jurist and co-founder of international law, Regius Professor at Oxford."}, {"n": "Antonin Scalia", "u": "/e/legal-scholars-and-political-theorists/antonin-scalia/", "s": "Intellectual anchor for originalist and textualist jurisprudence on the Supreme Court."}, {"n": "Ben Ferencz", "u": "/e/legal-scholars-and-political-theorists/ben-ferencz/", "s": "American lawyer and chief U.S. Army prosecutor at the Einsatzgruppen trial at Nuremberg."}, {"n": "Carl Schmitt", "u": "/e/legal-scholars-and-political-theorists/carl-schmitt/", "s": "Controversial German jurist and Nazi legal theorist."}, {"n": "Catharine A. MacKinnon", "u": "/e/legal-scholars-and-political-theorists/catharine-a-mackinnon/", "s": "Feminist legal scholar who wrote Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989)."}, {"n": "Cesare Beccaria", "u": "/e/legal-scholars-and-political-theorists/cesare-beccaria/", "s": "Italian criminologist who condemned torture and the death penalty."}, {"n": "Christopher Columbus Langdell", "u": "/e/legal-scholars-and-political-theorists/christopher-columbus-langdell/", "s": "American jurist and legal academic, Dean of Harvard Law School from 1870 to 1895"}, {"n": "Clarence Darrow", "u": "/e/legal-scholars-and-political-theorists/clarence-darrow/", "s": "American lawyer famed for labor and criminal defense cases."}, {"n": "James Madison", "u": "/e/legal-scholars-and-political-theorists/james-madison/", "s": "Founding Father, fourth president of the United States and \"Father of the Constitution\""}, {"n": "John Austin", "u": "/e/legal-scholars-and-political-theorists/john-austin/", "s": "English legal theorist who developed a fully worked-out positivistic theory of law."}, {"n": "John Rawls", "u": "/e/legal-scholars-and-political-theorists/john-rawls/", "s": "American philosopher who revived normative political philosophy with A Theory of Justice."}, {"n": "Karl Llewellyn", "u": "/e/legal-scholars-and-political-theorists/karl-llewellyn/", "s": "American legal realist and principal drafter of the Uniform Commercial Code."}, {"n": "Lon Fuller", "u": "/e/legal-scholars-and-political-theorists/lon-fuller/", "s": "American legal philosopher who argued for law's internal morality."}, {"n": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "u": "/e/legal-scholars-and-political-theorists/niccol-machiavelli/", "s": "Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian of the Italian Renaissance"}, {"n": "Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.", "u": "/e/legal-scholars-and-political-theorists/oliver-wendell-holmes-jr/", "s": "U.S. Supreme Court justice and influential legal realist."}, {"n": "Plato", "u": "/e/legal-scholars-and-political-theorists/plato/", "s": "Foundational Western philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle."}, {"n": "Richard Posner", "u": "/e/legal-scholars-and-political-theorists/richard-posner/", "s": "Most-cited legal scholar of the 20th century and influential appellate judge."}, {"n": "Roscoe Pound", "u": "/e/legal-scholars-and-political-theorists/roscoe-pound/", "s": "Legal scholar who criticized formalist approaches to the law in the early twentieth century."}, {"n": "Thomas Aquinas", "u": "/e/legal-scholars-and-political-theorists/thomas-aquinas/", "s": "Italian Dominican friar and priest, theologian, and philosopher"}, {"n": "Thomas Hobbes", "u": "/e/legal-scholars-and-political-theorists/thomas-hobbes/", "s": "English philosopher and political theorist, author of Leviathan."}, {"n": "Václav Havel", "u": "/e/legal-scholars-and-political-theorists/v-clav-havel/", "s": "Czech dissident, playwright, and post-communist president."}, {"n": "William Blackstone", "u": "/e/legal-scholars-and-political-theorists/william-blackstone/", "s": "English jurist and author of the Commentaries on the Laws of England."}, {"n": "Yoram Dinstein", "u": "/e/legal-scholars-and-political-theorists/yoram-dinstein/", "s": "President of Tel Aviv University from 1991 to 1998."}, {"n": "Zbigniew Brzezinski", "u": "/e/legal-scholars-and-political-theorists/zbigniew-brzezinski/", "s": "Polish-American diplomat and political scientist, National Security Advisor to Jimmy Carter"}, {"n": "Ziya Gökalp", "u": "/e/legal-scholars-and-political-theorists/ziya-g-kalp/", "s": "Turkish sociologist, writer, poet, and politician"}]