"He's going to be an influential jurist, not just on his circuit but on all the other circuits and on the Supreme Court," said Akhil Reed Amar, a constitutional law expert at Yale who supports Mr. McConnell's nomination.
Conservative Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner, seen by many as the most influential jurist outside the Supreme Court, captured the enormous damage done by the Court's financing system.
Born the illegitimate daughter of a British navy captain and an African woman believed to be a slave, Belle was raised alongside her cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray Sarah Gadonn) by their great-uncle Lord Mansfield Tom Wilkinsonn), an influential jurist in his position as lord chief justice of England.
Al-Ghazâlî (c.1056 1111) was one of the most prominent and influential philosophers, theologians, jurists, and mystics of Sunni Islam.
Its most influential theorist, the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius, wrote "On the Law of War and Peace" (1625), during a time of political and legal ferment that saw the end of judicial torture, the yielding of blood sanctions to bondage and imprisonment, and a revolution in the law of evidence.
He was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 and built a reputation as one of America's most influential and quick-witted conservative jurists.
And the justice minister, Ahmed Mekki, the influential leader of a judicial independent movement under Mr. Mubarak and one of Mr. Morsi's closest aides, was actively trying to broker a deal with top jurists to resolve the crisis.
J. Michael Luttig, a member of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Virginia, is considered one of the most influential and conservative federal judges in the nation, a jurist thought to be on President Bush's short list for the Supreme Court.
Sudermann was a patrician from Cologne, and the son of Cologne's Bürgermeister (mayor) Dr. Heinrich Sudermann (1520 1591), a jurist and ambassador, and one of the most influential men in the imperial city and throughout the merchant capitals of the northern German states.
The famous jurist al-Ghazali (considered by many to be the single most influential Muslim after the prophet Muhammad) has stated the freedom of religion as the first of five essential rights that Sharia has granted to all individuals – the others having to do with the protection of life, lineage, intellect and property.
