The latter was translated into English as Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee by Dutch sinologist Robert Van Gulik, who then used the style and characters to write an original Judge Dee series.

The hero / detective of these novels is typically a traditional judge or similar official based on historical personages such as Judge Bao ( Bao Qingtian ) or Judge Dee ( Di Renjie ).

A well-known example of this legal usage is The Cases of Judge Dee ( 狄公案 Di Gongan in Chinese ), a Ming dynasty novel based on a historical Tang dynasty judge.

The novel's character Judge Fang is based on a creative extension of Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee mystery series, which is based around a Confucian judge in ancient China who usually solves three cases simultaneously.

The Judge Dee stories are based on the tradition of Chinese mysteries, transposing key elements into Western detective fiction.

Robert Hans van Gulik (, August 9, 1910, Zutphen – September 24, 1967, The Hague ) was a highly educated orientalist, diplomat, musician ( of the guqin ), and writer, best known for the Judge Dee mysteries, the protagonist of which he borrowed from the 18th-century Chinese detective novel Dee Goong An.

While in Tokyo, he published his first two books, the translation Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee and a privately published book of erotic colored prints from the Ming dynasty.

During World War II van Gulik translated the 18th-century detective novel Dee Goong An into English under the title Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee ( first published in Tokyo in 1949 ).

The main character of this book, Judge Dee, was based on the real statesman and detective Di Renjie, who lived in the 7th century, during the Tang Dynasty ( AD 600 – 900 ), though in the novel itself elements of Ming Dynasty China ( AD 1300 – 1600 ) were mixed in.

Van Gulik's intent in writing his first Judge Dee novel was, as he wrote in remarks on The Chinese Bell Murders, " to show modern Chinese and Japanese writers that their own ancient crime-literature has plenty of source material for detective and mystery-stories ".

Van Gulik's Judge Dee mysteries follow in the long tradition of Chinese detective fiction, intentionally preserving a number of key elements of that writing culture.

Most notably, he had Judge Dee solve three different ( and sometimes unrelated ) cases in each book, a traditional device in Chinese mysteries.

The whodunit element is also less important in the Judge Dee stories than it is in the traditional Western detective story, though still more so than in traditional Chinese detective stories.

* Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee, translation of the Chinese Dee Goong An ( 1941 – 1948 )

Another son, Mike Lee, graduated from BYU as an undergrad and a law student, before clerking for Judge Dee Benson at the United States District Court, District of Utah, and for Justice Samuel Alito, once while he was still judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and once on the U. S. Supreme Court.

* September 24 – Robert van Gulik, Judge Dee author

* Billy Dee Williams as Judge Reinhold

Anderson also appears as a supporting character in Judge Dredd novels:

The Undercity is a part of the fictional universe featured in the Judge Dredd series that appears in the UK comic book 2000 AD.

He also occasionally appears in the BBC series Judge John Deed as barrister Brian Cantwell.

West appears prominently in the 2006 video for California band STEFY's song " Chelsea " as " Judge Adam West ", presiding over the courtroom scene.

* The phrase further appears in Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian when the character Tobin informs The Kid that the phrase is the name Judge Holden has ascribed to his rifle, noting " A reference to the lethal in it.

Rico appears as the main villain in the 1995 Judge Dredd movie, in which Joe was played by Sylvester Stallone and Rico by Armand Assante.

Judge Death appears in something close to a Judge's helmet, though its modified visor resembles a portcullis.

Judge Death appears in something close to a Judge's helmet, though its modified visor resembles a portcullis.

Mean Machine appears in the Judge Dredd / Batman crossover Judgement on Gotham ( 1991 ).

He also appears in the Judge Dredd / Lobo crossover.

Brad Hamilton ( Judge Reinhold ) is a senior who appears to have it made.

City Blocks are a part of the fictional universe recounted in the Judge Dredd series that appears in the UK comic book 2000 AD.

The Cursed Earth is a part of the fictional universe from the Judge Dredd series that appears in the UK comic book 2000 AD.

Chief Judge Barbara Hershey is a fictional character in the Judge Dredd series that appears in British comic 2000 AD.

The Academy of Law is a fictional place of learning appearing in the Judge Dredd series that appears in the British comic 2000 AD.

This coat-of-arms appears in 1345, as the seal of Mysliborz, a Judge of Dobrzyn ( Dobrzyń nad Wisłą ).

Mek-Quake also appears in one Walter the Wobot story set in Mega-City One, along with Judge Dredd himself.

Judge Dredd is a comic book character whose strip appears in the British science fiction anthology 2000 AD.

* In Westerner, a 2012 song by electro-rock band Judge Rock, Bat Lash appears along with Jonah Hex and other characters from Crisis on Infinite Earths.

We will not say that they cannot be met, but it appears to us unavoidable that the District Judge should find whether the facts alleged are true and whether they can be explained so far as to leave the state proceedings undisturbed.

The Parable of the Unjust Judge ( also known as the Parable of the Importunate Widow ), is one of the parables of Jesus which appears in only one of the Canonical gospels of the New Testament.

Judge Squires ordered that the three sentences run concurrently and described Shaik as a man with commendable vision, ambition, and energy, but one who appears to have lost his moral compass and scruples.

Your instructions from me, the Judge are that, if she appears with a lawyer, her lawyer will deal with you.

The prosecution tried to present the poster to the jury in isolation for consideration as obscene material, but Judge Susan Isacoff ruled that the poster must be considered along with the music and lyrics.

* The electro-rock band Judge Rock pays homage to Crisis in their 2012 song Westerner, in which Jonah Hex, Bat Lash, Nighthawk ( DC Comics ), Johnny Thunder and Scalphunter ( DC Comics ) appear, along with the alien abduction taking them through time in episode three of the Crisis comic-book.

Judge Robert Bork's writings on anti-trust law, along with those of Richard Posner and other law and economics thinkers, were heavily influential in causing a shift in the U. S. Supreme Court's approach to antitrust laws since the 1970s, to be focused solely on what is best for the consumer rather than the company's practices.

From 1612, a Judge was appointed to assist the Governor's administration of Alderney, along with the Jurats.

In June 2010, the Israeli government appointed Lord Trimble to be one of two international observers serving on an Israeli commission of inquiry looking into the events surrounding an Israeli raid on the Mavi Marmara, along with Canadian former Judge Advocate General Ken Watkin.

Dredd and a small band of rebel Judges ( along with undercity denizen Fergee ) lead the resistance against the insane Judge Cal ;

The legendary “ Hanging Judge ,” along with U. S. Attorney Clayton, are credited with bringing law and order to the region.

Judge Hoffman's handling of the trial, along with the FBI's bugging of the defence lawyers, resulted, with the help of the Center for Constitutional Rights, in the convictions being overturned by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals two years later, on 21 November 1972.

According to legend, Judge Roy Bean held court in his saloon along the Rio Grande in a desolate stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert of southwest Texas.

He appointed Lowell to an Advisory Committee along with President Samuel Wesley Stratton of MIT and Probate Judge Robert Grant.

Judge Roy Hofheinz was a driving force behind the effort to obtain the Major League Baseball franchise for Houston, along with oilman Craig F. Cullinan, Jr. who had been involved with the failed attempted " Continental League " and who was chairman of the Houston Sports Association executive committee, a syndicate of local businessmen dedicated to bringing a pro baseball team to southeastern Texas.

" I, ________________, Judge of the Superior Court in and for the Province of ___________, pursuant to the powers vested in me by the Canada Transportation Act, do hereby appoint ________________ to act as Constable upon and along the lines of the _______________, as prescribed by Section 158 of the said Act.

Programming on WMSN includes the full Fox lineup, along with syndicated programs including The Simpsons, Two and a Half Men, Judge Judy, and The People's Court.

Hearing of the Judge Child's precognitive abilities, they obtain him from a carnival worker who's using him in a fake fortune-telling racket and take him along.

Realising her error at last, McGruder wasted no time in tendering her resignation and she entrusted Judge Hershey – along with SJS Chief Niles and Psi Division Chief Shenker – with the job of running the Justice Department until a new chief judge could be elected.

Soon after recording the album Drew was replaced by Mike " Judge " ( later to be the singer, along with John Porcelly on guitar, in the band Judge ).

Federal Judge James R. Nowlin was also a member of that class along with a number of other prominent Texans.

After three such trips, he decided this work was unfulfilling, and, along with Ben Hardin and Charles A. Wickliffe, began to study law under Judge John Rowan.

In Detroit, Grand River is one of five major avenues ( along with Woodward, Michigan, Gratiot, and Jefferson ) planned by Judge Augustus Woodward in 1805 that extend from downtown Detroit in differing directions.

In 1927, he served as one of three members as an Advisory Committee to Massachusetts Governor Alvan T. Fuller, along with President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard and Probate Judge Robert Grant.

* Judge Reinhold as Detective Billy Rosewood, a Beverly Hills detective who ( along with Sergeant John Taggart ) help Axel investigate the attempted murder of their supervisor, Captain Andrew Bogomil.

* In an episode of Night Court, Judge Harry Stone ( Harry Anderson ) is placed in a jail cell along with a number of ' mentally disturbed ' inmates all dressed as Napoleon.

In July 2009, Mayor Franklin ( along with Frances Townsend and Judge William H. Webster ) was appointed to an ad hoc Department of Homeland Security special task force for 60-day review of the Homeland Security Advisory System.