List of Jewish American jurists

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This is a list of famous Jewish American jurists.

For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.

Gloria Allred, feminist lawyer
Thomas Buergenthal, U.S. judge on the International Court of Justice
Alan Dershowitz, U.S. lawyer, Professor Harvard Law School, popular author
Judith Kaye, first female Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Alex Kozinski, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit judge and popular essayist [2]
William Kunstler, U.S. lawyer famous for defending controversial "radical" clients such as the "Chicago Seven" protesters of the 1968 Democratic National Convention.[3]
Samuel Leibowitz, lawyer, defender of the Scottsboro Boys.[4]
Edward Levi, U.S. Attorney General 1975-77
Martin Lipton, U.S. leading business lawer corporate mergers
Julian Mack, Early 20th Century United States Circuit Court of Appeals Judge.[5] [6]
Stanley Mosk, U.S. jurist, California Supreme Court Justice and Attorney General
Peter Neufeld, Innocence Project
Barry Scheck, Co-founder of the Innocence Project, defense lawyer for O.J. Simpson. [7].
Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General and Governor-Elect of New York
Laurence H. Tribe, Professor of Law, Harvard University
Eugene Volokh, Professor of Law, UCLA

Marcia Clark, prosecutor in the trial of O.J. Simpson
Roy Cohn, chief attorney for Joseph McCarthy
Ed Koch, Judge on The People's Court and former mayor of New York
Robert Shapiro, U.S. lawyer, known for the trial of O.J. Simpson
Jerry Sheindlin, television judge, husband of Judith Sheindlin, former New York State Supreme Court justice
Judith Sheindlin, former New York family court judge, host of Judge Judy
Joseph Wapner, judge on The People's Court