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Born December 17, 1861 • France
Died December 16, 1959 (aged 97) • Nancy • France
Subjects Of Study jurisprudence • French law • Napoleonic Code
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François Hotman
French jurist
Maurice-Jean-Claude-Eugène Hauriou
French political scientist
Philippe de Remi, sire de Beaumanoir
French administrator and jurist
Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Napoleon I
emperor of France
Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès, duke de Parme
French statesman
Cassin, René
René Cassin
French jurist
Labori
Fernand-Gustave-Gaston Labori
French lawyer
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
French author
Antoine-Quentin Fouquier-Tinville
French revolutionary lawyer
Jacques Cujas
French jurist and scholar
Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas
United States jurist
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
United States jurist
William Blackstone
Sir William Blackstone
English jurist
Sir Edward Coke
English jurist
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft
president and chief justice of United States
Robert H. Bork
Robert H. Bork
United States jurist
U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Sue Chutkan
Tanya Sue Chutkan
American lawyer and jurist
Savigny, Friedrich Karl von
Friedrich Karl von Savigny
German jurist and historian
H.L.A. Hart
English philosopher, teacher, and author