Jurist
Jurist , noun
[French juriste, Late Latin jurista, from Latin jus, juris, right, law. See Just, a.]
One who professes the science of law; one versed in the law, especially in the civil law, such as a judge, lawyer, or legal scholar; a writer on civil and international law.
It has ever been the method of public jurists to draw a great part of the analogies on which they form the law of nations from the principles of law which prevail in civil community.