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For the journal, see The Jurist (journal). For the online legal news service, see JURIST. For other uses, see Jurist (disambiguation).
See also
Not to be confused with Juror, a member of a jury.
References
A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law.[1][2] This person
External links 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.[3] With reference to Roman law, a "jurist" (in English) is a jurisconsult
(iurisconsultus).[4]

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 Detail from the sarcophagus of
Roman jurist Valerio Petroniano (315–
Norway. Thus the term can be applied to attorneys, judges and academics, provided that they hold a qualifying
320)
professional law degree.[5] 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.

Notable jurists [ edit ]

Main article: List of jurists

Some notable historical jurists include:

Ur-Nammu Muhammad Averroes Cesare Beccaria Muhammad Iqbal

Lycurgus of Sparta Thomas Aquinas Jeremy Bentham Felix Frankfurter
Solon of Athens Alberico Gentili Amina, bint al-Hajj ʿAbd al-Latif Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
B. R. Ambedkar Francis Bacon John Stuart Mill Hans Kelsen
Cicero William Blackstone John Marshall Pontes de Miranda

See also [ edit ]

List of jurists
History of the legal profession
History of the American legal profession
Legal profession
Paralegal
Islamic jurist

References [ edit ]

1. ^ Murray, James A. H., ed. (1901). "Jurist" . A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles. Vol. 5. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 636. "One who professes or
treats of law; one versed in the science of law; a legal writer."
2. ^ Vieto Piergiovanni (2000). Comparative Studies in Continental and Anglo-American Legal History. Germany: Duncker & Humblot. p. 236. ISBN 978-
3428097562.[not specific enough to verify]
3. ^ Garner, Bryan A., ed. (2019). "Jurist". Black's Law Dictionary (11 ed.). Thomson West. ISBN 9781539229759.
4. ^ "jurisconsult" . Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
5. ^ Falkanger, Thor. Gisle, Jon (ed.). "jurist" . Store Norske Leksikon. Retrieved 1 August 2022.

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