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Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
philosopher, politician, sociologist, jurist, historian
- University of Paris, Lycée Fabert
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
philosopher, translator, jurist, essayist, autobiographer, politician, poet lawyer, French moralist
- College of Guienne, University of Toulouse
Martin Edwards (born 1955)
critic, jurist, literary critic
- University of Oxford
Norberto Bobbio (1909-2004)
philosopher, jurist, historian, politician, journalist, political scientist, historian of ideas
- University of Turin, Liceo Classico Massimo D'Azeglio
Glenn Greenwald (born 1967)
lawyer, journalist, pundit, blogger, jurist
- George Washington University, New York University School of Law
Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484-1566)
theologian, chronicler, jurist, historian, human rights activist, Latin Catholic priest, missionary, anthropologist, friar
- University of Salamanca
Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903)
historian of classical antiquity, numismatist, jurist, journalist, legal historian, politician, epigrapher, classical scholar, classical archaeologist, historian, Germanist
- University of Kiel, Christianeum Hamburg
Alfonso X of Castile and Leon (1221-1284)
astronomer, ruler, composer, poet, historian, jurist