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Gwendolyn Graham and Cathy Wood
Gwendolyn Graham and Cathy Wood, the "Lethal Lovers," killed five elderly patients at Alpine Manor Nursing Home, Walker, Michigan, in 1987; Graham is serving life without parole, Wood was paroled in 2020.
Gyp Rosetti
Gyp Rosetti (Giuseppe Colombano Rosetti) is the fictional main antagonist of Boardwalk Empire season 3, a Sicilian Masseria underboss based in Tabor Heights played by Bobby Cannavale, who won a 2013 Emmy for the role.
Gypsy-Rose Blanchard
Gypsy-Rose Blanchard, American woman convicted of second-degree murder in the 2015 killing of her mother Dee Dee after Munchausen syndrome by proxy abuse; paroled December 28, 2023, later author, docuseries subject, and mother.
H. Alberta Colclaser
H. Alberta Colclaser (Hazel Alberta Colclaser, 1911-2010), American aviation lawyer and State Department foreign service officer; only woman on the ICAO legal committee, Paris Peace Conference delegate, and early space law participant.
H. H. Holmes
H. H. Holmes, born Herman Webster Mudgett (1861–1896), was an American con artist and murderer convicted of killing Benjamin Pitezel; his Chicago "Murder Castle" legend vastly exceeds the roughly nine substantiated victims.
H. L. A. Hart
H. L. A. Hart, born Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart, was a British legal philosopher and Oxford Professor of Jurisprudence, widely regarded as the twentieth century's most important English-speaking legal philosopher.
H. Russel Holland
H. Russel Holland, born Hezekiah Russel Holland in 1936, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Alaska since 2001.
H. V. Evatt
H. V. Evatt (1894–1965), Australian judge, politician, and diplomat; High Court justice 1930–40, Attorney-General and External Affairs minister 1941–49, UN General Assembly president 1948–49, ALP opposition leader 1951–60, NSW Chief Justice 1960–62.
Habeas corpus
Habeas corpus, Latin for "that you have the body," is the great writ directing a jailer to bring a detainee before a court to test the legality of detention; rooted in English common law and the 1679 Habeas Corpus Act, enshrined in the U.S. Suspension Clause.
Habeas Corpus Act 1679
Habeas Corpus Act 1679 (31 Cha 2 c. 2), English statute compelling jailers to produce prisoners before courts within three days and certify detention causes, with £100/£200 penalties; a procedural landmark, not the creation of the writ.
Habeas corpus in the United States
Habeas corpus in the United States, the great writ, lets detainees challenge detention legality; protected by the Suspension Clause, expanded by the 1867 Act, limited by AEDPA 1996, and central to post-2025 immigration detention litigation.
Habib Bourguiba (حبيب بورقيبة)
Habib Bourguiba (حبيب بورقيبة), Tunisian lawyer and Neo-Destour founder, led independence from France in 1956 and was Tunisia's first president 1957-1987, enacting the Personal Status Code before his 1987 removal by Ben Ali.
Habitual residence
Habitual residence is a factual connecting factor in private international law, first used by the Hague Conference in 1902, that links a person to a legal system for divorce jurisdiction, choice of law, maintenance, succession, and child protection, replacing domicile and nationality.
Hadden Clark
Hadden Irving Clark, American murderer and confessed serial killer with paranoid schizophrenia, convicted of killing Laura Houghteling (1992) and six-year-old Michelle Dorr (1986) in Montgomery County, Maryland; confessed to dozens of murders, only two confirmed.
Hadley v Baxendale
Hadley v Baxendale (1854) 9 Ex 341 is the English Court of Exchequer case establishing the remoteness of damage rule in contract: recoverable losses arise naturally from breach or were contemplated due to communicated special circumstances, refined by Victoria Laundry and The Heron II.
Hague Adoption Convention
The Hague Adoption Convention (29 May 1993, in force 1 May 1995) is an HCCH treaty with 107 Contracting Parties regulating intercountry adoption through Central Authorities, subsidiarity, and safeguards against child trafficking.
Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs
The Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs, or Hague System, is a 1925 WIPO-administered treaty letting one international application cover up to 100 designs across 85 contracting parties (102 countries), with 5-year renewable terms, 397 CHF basic fees, and Geneva Act (1999) procedures.
Hague Conference on Private International Law
Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH), founded 1893 by T.M.C. Asser, permanent intergovernmental organisation since 1955 that unifies private international law through Hague Conventions such as the 1961 Apostille and 1980 Child Abduction Conventions; 95 Members including the EU.
Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
The 1954 Hague Convention, adopted 14 May 1954 and in force since 7 August 1956, is the first treaty protecting cultural property in armed conflict, with 138 states parties and 1954 and 1999 Protocols adding restitution and enhanced protection regimes.
Hague Convention on Recognition of Divorces and Legal Separations
The Hague Convention on Recognition of Divorces and Legal Separations, concluded in 1970, obliges Contracting States to recognize divorces and legal separations validly granted in other Contracting States.
Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (1980 Child Abduction Convention) is a multilateral treaty concluded 25 October 1980, in force 1 December 1983, with 103 parties, requiring prompt return of wrongfully removed children under 16 through Central Authorities, with Article 13 exceptions.
Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance
2007 Hague Child Support Convention (Verdrag inzake de internationale inning van levensonderhoud voor kinderen), a multilateral treaty for cross-border recovery of child support and family maintenance via Central Authorities, free legal aid, and streamlined enforcement; in force 2013, with the EU, US, UK, and Canada among parties.
Hague Conventions of 1899
The Hague Conventions of 1899 are international agreements signed at the First Hague Peace Conference, convened by Tsar Nicholas II and creating the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907
The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 are multilateral peace-conference treaties codifying the laws of war, creating the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and whose 1907 Hague Regulations are recognized as customary international law.
Hague Conventions on the Law Applicable to International Sales of Goods
The Hague Conventions on the Law Applicable to International Sales of Goods are two treaties deciding which country's law governs international sales without a chosen law.
Hague Divorce Convention
Hague Divorce Convention (1970 Recognition of Divorces and Legal Separations Convention), HCCH No 18, treaty obliging Contracting States to recognize foreign divorces and separations meeting Article 2 residence or nationality ties; 20 parties, 12 EU states, in force 24 August 1975.
Hague Peace Conferences
The Hague Peace Conferences were two international gatherings held at The Hague in 1899 and 1907, convened by Russian Tsar Nicholas II to address disarmament and the laws of war.
Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts
The Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts are non-binding rules adopted by the Hague Conference in 2015, affirming party autonomy in choosing contract law.
Hague Protocol
The Hague Protocol (1955) amends the 1929 Warsaw Convention on international air carrier liability: doubles passenger limits to 250,000 gold francs, simplifies ticket and air waybill rules, rewrites the wilful-misconduct exception, in force 1 August 1963.
Hague Service Convention
Hague Service Convention (HCCH 1965 Service Convention), multilateral treaty of 15 November 1965 on transmitting judicial and extrajudicial documents abroad via designated Central Authorities; in force 10 February 1969 with 84 Contracting Parties.