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Hague–Visby Rules
Hague–Visby Rules: the 1924 Hague Rules on bills of lading as amended by the 1968 Visby and 1979 SDR Protocols; carrier liability regime with 666.67 SDR/package or 2 SDR/kg limits, distinct from Hamburg and Rotterdam Rules.
Haida Nation v British Columbia (Minister of Forests)
Haida Nation v British Columbia (Minister of Forests), 2004 SCC 73, is the Supreme Court of Canada case establishing the Crown's duty to consult and accommodate Aboriginal peoples before rights or title are proven, arising from TFL 39 logging on Haida Gwaii.
Haji Mastan (حاجی مستان)
Haji Mastan (حاجی مستان, Mastan Haider Mirza), 1926-1994, Bombay dock porter turned gold smuggler and Mumbai underworld don of the Karim Lala-Varadarajan troika, later founder of the Dalit Muslim Suraksha Mahasangh.
Hakodate foreign settlement
The Hakodate foreign settlement was the district where foreign merchants and consuls lived at Hakodate, one of Japan's first treaty ports, opened to trade in 1859.
Hala Y. Jarbou
Hala Yalda Jarbou, born 1971 in Iraq, is a United States district judge for the Western District of Michigan since 2020, appointed by President Trump and its chief judge since 2022.
Haldane R. Mayer
Haldane R. Mayer, also known as Haldane Robert Mayer, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Halden Prison
Halden fengsel (Halden Prison): high-security Norwegian prison for men in Østfold, opened April 2010, 227 closed places plus transition house, no window bars, rehabilitation-focused design, high costs, criticized for lockdowns in 2023.
Halfway house
Halfway house, also called residential reentry center or community-based residential facility: supervised transitional housing for people leaving prison, addiction treatment, or institutions, with rules, services, and mixed recidivism evidence.
Halil Ay
Halil Ay, Turkish organized-crime figure and alleged Anucur gang leader in Istanbul; survived the 13 January 2023 Haliç Bridge ambush, found killed in France in August 2023; later namesake of the Ay Grubu indictment.
Halil S. Ozerden
Halil S. Ozerden, born in 1966, is a United States district judge for the Southern District of Mississippi, appointed by George W. Bush in 2007 and serving as chief judge since 2024.
Hamburg Rules
The Hamburg Rules are the United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, adopted at Hamburg in 1978, establishing a uniform legal regime for shippers and carriers.
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557 (2006), is the Supreme Court decision invalidating the Bush-era Guantanamo military commissions for lacking congressional authorization and violating Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions.
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004), Supreme Court case holding that U.S. citizen Yaser Esam Hamdi, an enemy combatant, was entitled to due process to contest his detention before a neutral decisionmaker.
Hamid al-Qazwini
Hamid al-Qazwini, honorific Shams al-Din Abu al-Rida, was a Shafi'i jurist and hadith scholar titled 'shaykh of the Shafi'iyya' who led the Dar al-Hadith in Irbil, fled the Mongol conquest for Aleppo, and died in 1239.
Hamida Djandoubi (حميدة جندوبي)
Hamida Djandoubi (حميدة جندوبي), a Tunisian laborer living in Marseille, was guillotined at Baumettes prison on 10 September 1977, the last execution in France and Western Europe.
Hamza Bendelladj
Hamza Bendelladj, aka Bx1, is an Algerian hacker co-developer and marketer of the SpyEye banking trojan; arrested in Bangkok in 2013, extradited to the US, and sentenced in 2016 to 15 years in prison.
Handover of Hong Kong
Handover of Hong Kong (香港回歸), also the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong: Britain returned Hong Kong to China on 1 July 1997 under the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration, creating a Special Administrative Region under one country, two systems.
Hanged, drawn and quartered
Hanged, drawn and quartered: the English statutory penalty for male high traitors from the Treason Act 1352 until the late 18th century, involving dragging on a hurdle, partial hanging, disembowelling, beheading, and quartering; abolished with quartering in 1870.
Hanging
Hanging is suspension of a person by a noose or ligature around the neck, used historically and currently as a judicial execution method (Iran, Japan, Taiwan) and a common suicide method; death mechanisms include asphyxia, cerebral vessel occlusion, and cardiac inhibition.
Hangman's knot
The hangman's knot, also called the hangman's noose, is a running noose with multiple coils, historically used for judicial hanging; in forensics, its position on the neck largely determines the mechanism of death.
Hangwani Maumela
Hangwani Maumela, also known as Hangwani Morgan Maumela, is a South African businessman.
Hannah Dugan
Hannah C. Dugan, former Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge (Branch 31), convicted December 2025 of felony obstruction for helping Eduardo Flores-Ruiz evade ICE agents at the courthouse; fined $5,000, no prison, July 2026.
Hannah Natanson FBI raid
Hannah Natanson FBI raid: the January 14, 2026 FBI search warrant executed at the Virginia home of the Washington Post federal-workforce reporter, seizing her devices in a Pentagon leak probe and triggering court battles over the Privacy Protection Act.
Hannah Ocuish
Hannah Ocuish, also spelled Occuish, was a girl of Pequot and African American descent, believed to have had an intellectual disability, hanged at age 12 for murdering a 6-year-old girl.
Hans Kelsen
Hans Kelsen (Reine Rechtslehre, Pure Theory of Law) was an Austrian jurist (1881–1973), co-designer of Austria's 1920 constitution, originator of the Grundnorm and the constitutional-court model of judicial review, later a Berkeley professor.
Hans Wehberg
Hans Wehberg (1885–1962) was a German jurist and pacifist, professor of international law in Geneva, who helped prepare the 1928 Briand-Kellogg Pact and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939.
Hans Weidel
Hans Weidel (1903-1985), German lawyer, NSDAP and SS member, and Wehrmacht military judge in occupied Warsaw promoted to superior staff judge; postwar Gütersloh notary, grandfather of AfD leader Alice Weidel.
Happy Land fire
The Happy Land fire was a 1990 arson attack at the unlicensed Happy Land Social Club in the Bronx, New York, that killed 87 people trapped inside.
Hard money loan
Hard money loan: a short-term, asset-based real estate loan from private or nonbank lenders, underwritten on property value rather than borrower income, typically priced at 9–14% interest plus 1–4 points, used for fix-and-flip, bridge, and construction projects.
Hardboiled
Hardboiled fiction: American crime-fiction school born in 1920s pulp magazines like Black Mask, featuring tough cynical private eyes such as Hammett's Sam Spade and Chandler's Philip Marlowe, written in terse realist prose and distinguished from classical detective stories by moral ambiguity, urban corruption, and its later fusion into film noir.