Word: jurist
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Otto Gierke, delegate from the University of Berlin; soldier, historian jurist; who as a youth won the iron cross at the stage of Mezieres, and as a man has compelled the admiration of all scholars by his unmatched knowledge of legal and political thought since the Middle Ages...
John Henry Wigmore, delegate from Northwestern University; author of a monumental treatise on the Law of Evidence, a jurist in a day when lawyers are many and jurists rare...
...Henry Newton Sheldon, jurist, in youth a lieutenant in the Fifty-Fifth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, for twenty-eight years a legal practitioner in Boston, for fourteen years past a learned and independent Massachusetts judge, now on the Supreme bench...
Paul Vinogradoff, "Lately professor of History in the University of Moscow, since 1903 Professor of Jurisprudence in Oxford University, distinguished student of social and legal institutions. May this call of a Russian jurist to an English University presage a clear call of the Russian people on English experience of constitutional government...
Elihu Root, "Lawyer, jurist, statesman, Secretary of War for four years and a half, now for two years Secretary of State, a diplomatist who represents not a dynasty, or a cabinet, but a people, an envoy of good faith and good will among the nations...