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Law & Order (franchise)
Law & Order is Dick Wolf's American TV crime-legal drama franchise, premiered 1990 on NBC, split-format police/prosecution episodes, spin-offs SVU, Criminal Intent, Organized Crime, and international adaptations in the UK, France, Russia, and Canada.
Law & Order season 23
Law & Order season 23 is the third post-revival season of the NBC crime drama, airing 13 episodes from January 18 to May 16, 2024, with cast exits by Jeffrey Donovan and Sam Waterston and Tony Goldwyn joining as DA Nicholas Baxter.
Law & Order season 24
Law & Order season 24 (2024-25) is the 22-episode NBC revival season starring Hugh Dancy, Tony Goldwyn, and new lieutenant Maura Tierney, ending with a serialized Maroun case continuing into season 25.
Law & Order season 25
Law & Order season 25 (2025–26) is the 21-episode 25th season of the NBC procedural, premiering September 25, 2025 with "Street Justice," adding David Ajala as Detective Theo Walker after Mehcad Brooks' exit, and ending May 14, 2026.
Law & Order True Crime
Law & Order True Crime is an NBC true-crime anthology series; its only season, The Menendez Murders (2017, 8 episodes, created by Rene Balcer, starring Edie Falco as Leslie Abramson), dramatized the 1989 Menendez killings and trials.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: Criminal Intent is an American police procedural, the second Law & Order spin-off, following NYPD Major Case Squad detectives Robert Goren and Alexandra Eames; it ran ten seasons from 2001 to 2011 on NBC then USA Network, and spawned French, Russian, and Canadian adaptations.
Law & Order: LA
Law & Order: LA (LOLA) was a one-season NBC police procedural and legal drama spin-off of Law & Order created by Dick Wolf, set in Los Angeles; premiered September 29, 2010, creatively overhauled mid-season, and canceled May 13, 2011.
Law & Order: Organized Crime
Law & Order: Organized Crime is a serialized NBC/Peacock crime drama spin-off (2021–2025, five seasons) starring Christopher Meloni as Elliot Stabler of the NYPD Organized Crime Control Bureau, canceled in April 2026.
Law & Order: Organized Crime season 5
Law & Order: Organized Crime season 5, the final season of the Dick Wolf crime drama, streamed 10 episodes on Peacock from April 17 to June 12, 2025, starring Christopher Meloni as Elliot Stabler, before the series was canceled after five seasons.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (SVU) is Dick Wolf's NBC police procedural, premiered September 1999, following NYPD detectives investigating sexual assault, child abuse, and domestic violence; the longest-running primetime live-action series, led by Mariska Hargitay's Olivia Benson, now in season 28.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit season 16
Law & Order: SVU season 16, the 2014–2015 NBC run of 23 episodes under showrunner Warren Leight, starring Mariska Hargitay, Ice-T, Kelli Giddish, Danny Pino, and Raúl Esparza, with headline-based episodes and Chicago crossovers.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit season 26
Season 26 of Law & Order: SVU (NBC, 2024–25): 22 episodes from "Fractured" (Oct 3, 2024) to "Post-Rage" (May 15, 2025), adding Det. Kate Silva, a Carisi hostage-trauma arc, and a Law & Order crossover.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit season 27
Season 27 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC, premiered September 25, 2025) ran 21 episodes under first female showrunner Michele Fazekas, with Giddish returning as a regular, Pisano and Martinez exiting, and a Season 28 renewal.
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Law & Order: Trial by Jury, the fourth Dick Wolf Law & Order series, aired one 13-episode NBC season from March 2005, following Manhattan prosecutors from arraignment through trial before cancellation.
Law & Order: UK
Law & Order: UK is a British ITV1 crime drama (2009-2014), produced by Kudos, Wolf Films, and NBC Universal, adapting every episode from a US Law & Order teleplay for English courts, running 53 episodes across 8 series.
Law 1420 of Free and Compulsory Education
Law 1420, or Ley 1420 de Educación Común, Gratuita y Obligatoria, is an Argentine law of 1884 that established free, compulsory primary schooling for children aged six to fourteen.
Law 200 of 1936
Law 200 of 1936, known in Colombia as the Ley de Tierras, was a land law of President Alfonso López Pumarejo allowing extinction of dominion over idle rural land.
Law Abiding Citizen
Law Abiding Citizen is a 2009 American vigilante thriller directed by F. Gary Gray, starring Jamie Foxx as a Philadelphia prosecutor and Gerard Butler as a grieving father taking revenge.
Law against harboring books
The law against harboring books (挾書律), also called the Book Hiding Edict, was a Qin statute banning private possession of books, repealed by Emperor Hui of Han.
Law and economics
Law and economics, also called economic analysis of law, applies microeconomic theory to legal rules and institutions, from Coase's 1960 theorem on property rights to tort and criminal deterrence.
Law and Justice
Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS) is a national-conservative party in Poland founded in 2001 by Lech and Jarosław Kaczyński, governing from 2015 to 2023.
Law and Order (2026 film)
Law and Order (ലോ & ഓർഡർ), also L&O, is a 2026 Malayalam action crime drama directed by Ranjith, written by Udaykrishna, starring Prakash Varma and Abhirami, with Mammootty cameoing as Karikkamuri Shanmughan from Black (2004); released 18 September 2026.
Law and procedure of tribunals of inquiry
The law and procedure of tribunals of inquiry governs UK and Irish public inquiries, which compel evidence and report findings but cannot determine civil or criminal liability.
Law and the City (서초동)
Law and the City (서초동, Seochodong) is a 2025 tvN Korean drama, 12 episodes aired July 5 to August 10, 2025, directed by Park Seung-woo, starring Lee Jong-suk and Moon Ga-young as associate lawyers in Seocho-dong, Seoul's legal district; finale rated 7.7 percent.
Law applicable to divorce and legal separation regulation
Rome III, Council Regulation (EU) No 1259/2010, sets uniform EU conflict-of-laws rules on which national law governs divorce and legal separation, adopted via the first enhanced cooperation by 17 Member States, with limited spousal choice of law and public policy safeguards.
Law By Mike
Law By Mike is the online persona of Michael L. Mandell, a licensed California attorney and founder of Mandell Law APC, and the largest legal creator on YouTube with about 17.7 million subscribers and 30 million followers across platforms.
Law clerk
A law clerk is a legally trained judicial assistant who researches law, prepares bench memoranda, and drafts opinions for judges. The role began with Horace Gray's privately paid 'secretary' in 1875 and became federally funded in 1919.
Law code of Nezahualcoyotl
The law code of Nezahualcoyotl (código de leyes de Nezahualcóyotl) is a reputed 15th-century body of laws attributed to Nezahualcoyotl, ruler of Tetzcoco, covering treason, adultery, and theft.
Law Commission of India
Law Commission of India (भारत का विधि आयोग): non-statutory advisory body under the Ministry of Law and Justice, first set up in 1955, that researches law and submits reform reports; 22 commissions, 277 reports, 92 implemented.
Law Council of Australia
The Law Council of Australia is the national peak representative body for the Australian legal profession, founded in 1933, representing more than 110,000 lawyers through state and territory societies and bar associations.