The Most Famous
LAWYERS from Switzerland
This page contains a list of the greatest Swiss Lawyers. The pantheon dataset contains 136 Lawyers, 3 of which were born in Switzerland. This makes Switzerland the birth place of the 7th most number of Lawyers behind Austria, and France.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Swiss Lawyers of all time. This list of famous Swiss Lawyers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Charles Albert Gobat (1843 - 1914)
With an HPI of 72.88, Charles Albert Gobat is the most famous Swiss Lawyer. His biography has been translated into 67 different languages on wikipedia.
Charles Albert Gobat (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl albɛʁ ɡɔba]; 21 May 1843 – 16 March 1914) was a Swiss lawyer, educational administrator, and politician who jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize with Élie Ducommun in 1902 for their leadership of the Permanent International Peace Bureau.
2. Carla Del Ponte (b. 1947)
With an HPI of 60.86, Carla Del Ponte is the 2nd most famous Swiss Lawyer. Her biography has been translated into 37 different languages.
Carla Del Ponte (born February 9, 1947) is a Swiss former Chief Prosecutor of two United Nations international criminal law tribunals. A former Swiss attorney general, she was appointed prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in August 1999, replacing Louise Arbour. In 2003, the U.N. Security Council removed Del Ponte as the Prosecutor for the ICTR, and replaced her there with Hassan Bubacar Jallow following pressure from Rwanda's president Kagame who was obstructing her efforts to investigate crimes by Tutsi. She remained the Prosecutor for the ICTY until 1 January 2008, when she was succeeded by Serge Brammertz. Del Ponte was formerly married, and has one son. Del Ponte served as Swiss ambassador to Argentina from 2008 to February 2011.
3. Johann Kaspar Bluntschli (1808 - 1881)
With an HPI of 52.32, Johann Kaspar Bluntschli is the 3rd most famous Swiss Lawyer. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages.
Johann Caspar (also Kaspar) Bluntschli (7 March 1808 – 21 October 1881) was a Swiss jurist and politician. Together with fellow liberals Francis Lieber and Édouard René de Laboulaye, he developed one of the first codes of international law and war.
People
Pantheon has 3 people classified as Swiss lawyers born between 1808 and 1947. Of these 3, 1 (33.33%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Swiss lawyers include Carla Del Ponte. The most famous deceased Swiss lawyers include Charles Albert Gobat, and Johann Kaspar Bluntschli.
