644 articles
LGBTQ rights by country or territory
Global overview of LGBTQ rights by country: criminalization (65 UN member states), marriage equality (37 states plus Taiwan), conversion therapy bans, legal gender recognition, UN treaty law, and ranking indices from ILGA, Equaldex, and Our World in Data.
List of amendments of the Constitution of India
List of amendments of the Constitution of India: formal changes to India's supreme law since 1950 under Article 368. Covers the First Amendment (1951), 42nd, 73rd, 74th, 99th through 106th Amendments, and the Kesavananda Bharati basic-structure limit.
List of amendments to the Constitution of the United States
The list of amendments to the Constitution of the United States covers all 27 ratified amendments, added under Article V since the Bill of Rights in 1791.
List of ATF controversies
ATF controversies: Waco 1993 raid, Operation Fast and Furious gunwalking, Garland v. Cargill bump stock ruling, brace and dealer rule injunctions, zero-tolerance policy replacement, Webloc surveillance cancellation, and GAO oversight findings.
List of current members of the Rajya Sabha
Current members of the Rajya Sabha (Council of States): 245 sitting members, 233 elected by state assemblies and 12 nominated by the President, with party strength, nominated members, ministers, and the 2026 retirement cycle.
List of deaths in ICE detention
Deaths in ICE detention: documented deaths of immigrants in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody; 52 deaths January 2025 to June 2026, mortality rate more than doubled, 95 percent of 2017 to 2021 deaths found preventable.
List of executive actions by Donald Trump
Executive actions by Donald Trump: executive orders, memoranda, and proclamations across his first (2017-2021) and second terms, including record second-term volumes, Project 2025 alignment, and litigation.
List of human rights organisations
List of human rights organisations: overview of NGOs and UN bodies including Amnesty International (founded 1961), Human Rights Watch (1978, as Helsinki Watch), and OHCHR, with accreditation, credibility, and funding context.
List of immigration enforcement operations in the second Trump presidency
Named ICE and CBP enforcement campaigns of Trump's second term: Operation Return to Sender, Midway Blitz, Metro Surge, and DC crackdown, with arrest totals, dates, locations, worksite raids, and use-of-force incidents.
List of Jim Crow law examples by state
Jim Crow laws were U.S. state and local statutes enforcing racial segregation and disfranchisement, chiefly in the South from the 1890s to the 1960s; this entry lists documented examples by state, from Alabama transportation rules to Wyoming marriage bans.
List of national constitutions
List of national constitutions: catalogs of the world's constitutional texts, chiefly the Comparative Constitutions Project and its Constitute platform, covering in-force and historical constitutions since 1789, topic tagging, and amendment patterns.
List of national legal systems
Classification of national legal systems into civil law, common law, religious law, customary law, and mixed traditions, with country examples such as Saudi Arabia, Israel, Louisiana, Quebec, the Philippines, Andorra, and Guernsey.
List of people granted executive clemency by Barack Obama
Barack Obama's executive clemency record (2009-2017): 212 pardons and 1,715 commutations, 1,927 total, mostly drug sentences under the 2014 Clemency Initiative, granted at a 5% petition rate.
List of people granted executive clemency by Donald Trump
The list of people granted executive clemency by Donald Trump covers more than 1,500 pardons and commutations across his two presidential terms, including January 6 defendants.
List of people pardoned or granted clemency by the president of the United States
Public DOJ-maintained record of everyone pardoned or granted clemency by U.S. presidents under Article II, Section 2; covers federal offenses only, excludes impeachment, and lists per-administration grant counts and notable recipients.
List of Philippine laws
List of Philippine laws: numbered statutes of the Philippines, from Act No. series (1900) through Commonwealth Acts, Presidential Decrees, Batas Pambansa, and 12,313 Republic Acts to date.
List of smoking bans
List of smoking bans: laws prohibiting smoking in indoor workplaces, public transport, and public spaces, first national law Ireland 2004; WHO FCTC Article 8 benchmark; 2025 extensions to outdoor areas, cars, and the Maldives' first generational ban.
List of smoking bans in the United States
Smoking bans in the United States: state and local smokefree indoor air laws. 28 states plus DC have comprehensive laws covering bars, restaurants, worksites; 61.1% of the population covered; first state smoking-area law Arizona 1973.
List of United States federal executive orders
The list of United States federal executive orders covers the numbered directives by which the president directs the federal government, issued by every president since George Washington.
List of United States immigration laws
List of major United States immigration laws, from the 1790 Naturalization Act and the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act through the 1952 INA, 1965 Hart-Celler, IRCA 1986, and 1990 acts, to IIRIRA 1996 and recent enforcement statutes.
List of United States presidential vetoes
List of United States presidential vetoes: every regular and pocket veto from Washington (2) through Trump's second term (2), totaling 2,599 vetoes, 1,533 regular and 1,066 pocket, with 112 overridden; FDR leads with 635.
List of vaping bans in the United States
U.S. vaping bans: state, local, and federal restrictions on e-cigarettes, including indoor-use bans in 20 states plus DC and Puerto Rico, Tobacco 21, flavor bans, licensing, taxes, and preemption.
List of websites blocked in the Philippines
Websites blocked in the Philippines, also called the NTC blocklist: domains ISPs must block, notably 27 sites ordered blocked in June 2022 (Bulatlat, Pinoy Weekly) under the Anti-Terror Act, plus child-abuse, piracy, and violence-related blocks.
Lithuanian Constitution of 1922
The Lithuanian Constitution of 1922 (Lietuvos Valstybės Konstitucija) was the first permanent constitution of modern Lithuania, adopted on 1 August 1922, establishing a democratic republic dominated by the Seimas.
Local Government Act 1972
The Local Government Act 1972 is a United Kingdom statute that reorganized local government in England and Wales, replacing a nineteenth-century patchwork with standardized county and district councils.
Loi-cadre Defferre
The Loi-cadre Defferre was a 1956 French law, named for Overseas Minister Gaston Defferre, that established universal suffrage and councils of government in French African territories, laying the groundwork for the 1960 independences.
Lokayukta
Lokayukta is the state-level anti-corruption ombudsman of India, counterpart of the central Lokpal. Recommended by the 1966 ARC; Maharashtra first (1971); powers, terms, and effectiveness vary widely by state.
Lokpal
Lokpal (लोकपाल), India's Union anti-corruption ombudsman under the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act 2013, distinct from state Lokayuktas; first appointed 2019 (P. C. Ghose), investigates Prevention of Corruption Act offences.
Lord Chancellor
The Lord Chancellor is an ancient UK office of state, today combined with Secretary of State for Justice heading the Ministry of Justice. Reshaped by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, it lost its judicial and Lords Speaker roles but keeps rule-of-law duties.
Louis Le Fur
Louis Le Fur (1870–1943) was a French jurist and professor of public and international law at Caen, Strasbourg, Rennes, and Paris, known for his Catholic natural-law philosophy of international law.