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Thomas Aquinas
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church (1225–1274)
Ban Ki-moon
8th Secretary-General of the United Nations
Hugo Grotius
Dutch jurist and scholar (1583-1645)
Tobias Asser
Dutch lawyer and legal scholar (1838-1913)
Hans Kelsen
Austrian lawyer (1881–1973)
Amal Clooney
Amal Clooney is a Lebanese and British international human rights lawyer. She has represented several high-profile clients, including former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad, Filipino-American journalist Maria Ressa, Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova, and Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy.
Francisco Suárez
Spanish Jesuit priest, philosopher and theologian (1548-1617)
Francisco de Vitoria
Spanish philosopher
Walter Hallstein
German diplomat and statesman (1901–1982)
Michael Ignatieff
Canadian professor, writer and politician
Muhammad al-Shaybani
Arab jurist and a disciple of Abu Hanifa (749/50–805)
Emerich de Vattel
jurist from the Principality of Neuchâtel
Friedrich Martens
Estonian legal scholar and diplomat (1845–1909)
Johann Caspar Bluntschli
Swiss jurist and politician (1808-1881)
Alberico Gentili
Italian jurist (1552-1608)
Philippe Sands
British/French lawyer, legal academic and author
Max van der Stoel
Dutch politician (1924-2011)
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
American United Nations official
Richard Anderson Falk
American law professor and writer
Hersch Lauterpacht
Polish-British judge, legal scholar (1897–1960)
Muhammad Hamidullah
Indian scholar and polymath (1908–2002)
Antonio Cassese
italian writer and jurist (1937–2011)
Pieter Kooijmans
Dutch politician, jurist, and diplomat (1933–2013)
Theodor Meron
Israeli judge and lawyer
James Anaya
human rights professor
Rosalyn Higgins
British barrister, judge and scholar (born 1937)
Song Sang-Hyun
South Korean lawyer
Carlos Calvo
Argentine historian (1824–1906)
Rubén Berríos
Puerto Rican politician
Thomas Buergenthal
Slovak born Holocaust survivor, American jurist and judge on the International Court of Justice (1934-2023)
Ruth Halperin-Kaddari
legal scholar
L. F. L. Oppenheim
German legal scholar (1858–1919)
Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns
Belgian diplomat and legal scholar (1835-1902)
Stephen M. Schwebel
American judge
Laurens Jan Brinkhorst
Dutch former politician (born 1937)
James Crawford
Australian legal academic and practitioner (1948-2021)
Chris Van Den Wyngaert
judge
Hans Köchler
Austrian philosopher
Martti Koskenniemi
Finnish lawyer and diplomat
William Schabas
Canadian academic in the field of international criminal and human rights law
Jean Pictet
Red Cross international lawyer (1914-2002)
Philip Jessup
American diplomat, scholar, and jurist (1897–1986)
Ernest Nys
Belgian lawyer and scholar (1851-1920)
Juan E. Méndez
Argentine lawyer and activist
Jules Basdevant
French legal scholar (1877–1968)
Hans-Peter Kaul
German judge (1943–2014)
Manfred Lachs
Polish jurist and diplomat (1914–1993)
Ben Emmerson
British Queen's Counsel
Ernst Hirsch Ballin
Dutch former politician
Georg Nolte
German jurist (born 1959)
John Bassett Moore
American jurist (1860–1947)
Eric Posner
American legal scholar (1965-)
Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade
Brazilian judge (1947–2022)
Mikhail Taube
Russian lawyer and historian (1869-1961)
James Brown Scott
American legal scholar (1866–1943)
Robert Yewdall Jennings
British judge (1913–2004)
Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos
Greek jurist and academic
Ian Brownlie
British barrister and professor (1932-2010)
Zenonas Petrauskas
Lithuanian politician (1950-2009)
Martha Minow
American legal scholar