Law's Hall of Shame

A formidable tool, the law has not always been used to advance justice or fairness. Many have used the law to their own ends, damn be justice! Others, their legal training to pervert justice or, as law students or lawyers, staining the pages of history with injustice or lawlessness.

These are lawyers, law students, law professors, justice politicians or the like, which society ought to hold out in shame for either heinous acts or lives. See, by contrast, the Law's Hall of Fame.

• Adams, William, USA
• Birrell, Lowell, (1907-?), USA
• Butler, Benjamin Franklin (1818–1893) USA
• Cohn, Roy (1927-1986), USA
• Coiro, Michael (-2003), USA
• Cortez, Hernán (1485-1547), Spain
• Dreier, Marc (1950-), USA
• Empson, Richard (1450-1510), England
• Gaddafi, Aeysha (1976-), Libya
• Jaradat, Hanad (1975-2003), Palestine
• Newton, Huey Percy (1942-1989), USA
• Odo of Bayeux (1037-1096), France & England
• Phelps, Fred (1929), USA
• Rayan, Nizar (1960-2009), Palestine
• Rosenberg, Jerry (USA)
• Rothaug, Oswald, Nazi Germany
• Thierack, Otto (1889-1946), Nazi Germany
• Tokugawa, Ieyasu (1542-1616), Japan
• Vyshinsky, Andrei (1883-1954), Russia

REFERENCES:

• Chan, S., Jerry Rosenberg, Jailhouse Lawyer, Dies at 72, New York Times, June 1, 2009