Jewish legal scholars

Moses ben Maimon (died 12 December 1204), commonly known as Maimonides and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam, was a Sephardic Jewish rabbi who is widely acknowledged as one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. Originally from Córdoba, where he was born on Passover Eve of 1135 or 1138, his family was exiled from Muslim-ruled Spain when they refused to convert to Islam shortly after the Almohad Caliphate conquered the Almoravid dynasty in 1148. Over the course of the next two decades, Maimonides resided in Fez, Acre, Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Cairo

American lawyer and jurist (1933–2020)

US Supreme Court justice from 1994 to 2022

Polish Jewish lawyer (1900–1959)

American legal philosopher (1931-2013)

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2010

Alan Morton Dershowitz is an American lawyer and law professor known for his work in U.S. constitutional and criminal law. From 1964 to 2013, he taught at Harvard Law School, where he was appointed as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in 1993. Dershowitz is a regular media contributor, political commentator, and legal analyst.

American lawyer, politician, and U.S. Representative from Maryland since 2017

United States federal judge

Geonim (, ; also transliterated as ; , ) were the chiefs of the Sura and Pumedita Academies, the two great Talmudic Academies in Babylonia during the Abbasid Caliphate. They were generally accepted as the spiritual leaders of the Jewish community worldwide in the Early Middle Ages, in contrast to the Resh Galuta () who wielded secular authority over the Jews in Islamic lands.

American legal scholar, writer, blogger (b. 1954)

In Jewish law, a posek ( , pl. poskim, ) is a legal scholar who determines the application of halakha, the Jewish religious laws derived from the written and Oral Torah, in cases of Jewish law where previous authorities are inconclusive, or in those situations where no clear halakhic precedent exists.

In Jewish law and history, Acharonim (, , ; ; ) are the leading rabbis and poskim (Jewish legal decisors) living from roughly the 16th century to the present, and more specifically since the writing of the Shulchan Aruch (; a code of Jewish law) in 1563 CE.

Rishonim (; ; sing. , Rishon) were the leading rabbis and poskim who lived approximately during the 11th to 15th centuries, in the era before the writing of the Shulchan Aruch (, "Set Table", a common printed code of Jewish law, 1563 CE) and following the Geonim (589–1038 CE). Rabbinic scholars subsequent to the Shulchan Aruch are generally known as acharonim ("the latter ones").

South African anti-Apartheid activist leader, author and judge of the Constitutional Court (born 1935)

German legal scholar (1858–1919)

Rabbi & Rosh Yeshiva

American legal scholar (1943-)

American lawyer and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union

Croatian lawuer and politician (1910–1992)

American journalist

Hungarian legal scholar (1873–1920)

American attorney

American activist, lawyer and academic

American legal scholar (1924–1974)