Jurist

Example(s):
- Shirin Ebadi (1947-), an Iranian lawyer, former judge, and human rights activist, and Nobel laureate.
- Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld (1879-1918), an American legal theorist known for his analysis of the structure of legal rights.
- Cornelia Sorabji (1866-1954), India's first female lawyer who advocated for women's legal rights in the British Empire.
- Telford Taylor (1908-1998), an American lawyer and prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II.
- René Cassin (1887-1976), a French jurist, law professor and judge, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968 for his work drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), an English philosopher and legal theorist.
- Alberico Gentili (1552-1608), an Italian jurist known as the father of international law.
- Gaius (110-180 AD), a Roman jurist whose writings were influential in the development of Roman law systems, and whose works were a primary source for later Roman legal scholarship.
- Hammurabi (c. 1810 – c. 1750 BC), Babylonian king known for the Hammurabi Code, one of the world's earliest and most complete written legal codes.
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Counter-Example(s):
- Law Historians, who study and document the history of law but do not necessarily have formal legal training or function within the legal system.
See: Legal Education, Roman Law, Legal Profession.

References

(Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/jurist Retrieved:2024-5-9.
- A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyzes and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the United Kingdom the term "jurist" is mostly used for legal academics, while in the United States the term may also be applied to a judge. With reference to Roman law, a "jurist" (in English) is a jurisconsult (iurisconsultus). The English term jurist is to be distinguished from similar terms in other European languages, where it may be synonymous with legal professional, meaning anyone with a professional law degree that qualifies for admission to the legal profession, including such positions as judge or attorney. In Germany, Scandinavia and a number of other countries jurist denotes someone with a professional law degree, and it may be a protected title, for example in Norway. Thus the term can be applied to attorneys, judges and academics, provided that they hold a qualifying professional law degree. In Germany – the term "full jurist" is sometimes used informally to denote someone who has completed the two state examinations in law that qualify for practising law, to distinguish from someone who may have only the first state examination or some other form of legal qualification that does not qualify for practising law.