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Álvaro Uribe
Álvaro Uribe Vélez, born 1952 in Medellín, is a Colombian politician, president 2002-2010, architect of the Democratic Security Policy, founder-leader of the Democratic Center party, and a polarizing figure later criminally convicted and then acquitted on appeal.
Alves dos Reis
Artur Virgílio Alves dos Reis (1896–1955), Portuguese fraudster of the 1925 Angola e Metrópole affair: forged a Banco de Portugal contract to have Waterlow & Sons print 200,000 duplicate 500-escudo notes, roughly 1% of GDP, founding Banco Angola e Metrópole; sentenced to 20 years in 1930.
Alvin A. Schall
Alvin Anthony Schall, born 1944, is a senior United States circuit judge of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1992.
Alvin Bragg
Alvin L. Bragg Jr., Manhattan's 37th district attorney and its first Black DA (2022 to present), former SDNY and New York AG prosecutor; convicted the Trump Organization and won the first criminal conviction of a former U.S. president.
Alvin K. Hellerstein
Alvin K. Hellerstein is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York since 2011.
Alvin Karpis
Alvin "Creepy" Karpis (born Karpavicz/Karpowicz, 1907-1979), Lithuanian-born leader of the Barker-Karpis gang; kidnapped Hamm and Bremer, last Depression-era Public Enemy No. 1, captured by Hoover in New Orleans 1936, served 26 years at Alcatraz.
Alvin W. Thompson
Alvin W. Thompson, born in 1953, is a senior judge on the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994.
Am Cyanide case
The Am Cyanide case: Thai criminal proceedings against Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn, aka Aem Cyanide, accused of cyanide-poisoning 15 people from 2015 to 2023 over debts; three death sentences, two life terms, three acquittals by 2026.
Amado Carrillo Fuentes
Amado Carrillo Fuentes, "El Señor de los Cielos," led Mexico's Juárez Cartel in the 1990s, flying cocaine in Boeing 727s; he died July 4, 1997 during plastic surgery in Mexico City, confirmed by DNA tests.
Amal Clooney
Amal Clooney, born Amal Alamuddin in Beirut in 1978, is a British-Lebanese barrister at Doughty Street Chambers specializing in international human rights, criminal, and public international law, former UK Special Envoy for Media Freedom, and Clooney Foundation for Justice co-founder.
Amalya L. Kearse
Amalya L. Kearse is an American judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1979.
Amanda K. Brailsford
Amanda Kathleen Brailsford, born in 1967, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Idaho since 2023 and chief judge since 2026.
Amanda Knox
Amanda Knox, American author and exoneree, was twice convicted and finally acquitted in 2015 by Italy's Court of Cassation of the 2007 Perugia murder of Meredith Kercher; her calunnia conviction was upheld in 2025.
Amarna letters
The Amarna letters are a corpus of clay tablets, mostly diplomatic correspondence to pharaohs Amenhotep III and Akhenaten in the mid-fourteenth century BC, found at Tell el-Amarna in 1887.
Amber alert
An AMBER Alert, from America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response, is a U.S. child-abduction alert system begun in 1996 in Dallas-Fort Worth after the murder of Amber Hagerman; it uses broadcast and wireless emergency alerts under DOJ coordination.
Amelia Dyer
Amelia Dyer (1837/1838–1896), English baby farmer and serial killer, hanged at Newgate for murdering infant Doris Marmon; convicted on one charge though estimated 200–400 victims, case led to 1897 and 1908 child protection acts.
Amendment and modification of treaties
Amendment and modification of treaties are the processes by which states parties change a treaty's content, governed by Articles 39 to 41 of the Vienna Convention.
Amendment of the Constitution of India
Amendment of the Constitution of India, under Article 368, is Parliament's constituent power to change the constitutional text by special majority, with state ratification for federal provisions, subject to the basic structure doctrine; over 100 amendments since 1950.
Amendments to the Constitution of Pakistan
Amendments to the Constitution of Pakistan are formal changes to the 1973 Constitution requiring a two-thirds majority, including the 2010 18th Amendment, which devolved subjects to provinces.
America First Legal
America First Legal (AFL), or America First Legal Foundation, is a conservative 501(c)(3) public interest law firm founded in February 2021 by Stephen Miller and Gene Hamilton, using litigation, FOIA requests, amicus briefs, and administrative complaints on DEI, immigration, education, and election issues.
American Bar Association
American Bar Association, founded 1878 in Saratoga Springs, is the voluntary national bar association of US lawyers, publisher of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct and, since 1952, the Department of Education-recognized accreditor of J.D. law school programs.
American Bar Association Section of International Law
The American Bar Association Section of International Law (ABA SIL) is an ABA section, dating to 1933, with over 50 committees, policy reports, and the journal The International Lawyer.
American Civil Liberties Union
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), founded January 1920 by Roger Baldwin, Crystal Eastman, and Albert DeSilver from the National Civil Liberties Bureau amid the Palmer Raids; nonprofit defender of constitutional rights with a 50-state affiliate network.
American Crime Story
American Crime Story, FX anthology drama from Ryan Murphy, Nina Jacobson, and Brad Simpson dramatizing real US criminal cases; seasons The People v. O.J. Simpson, The Assassination of Gianni Versace, and Impeachment, 2016–2021, 29 episodes.
American Judicature Society
American Judicature Society (AJS), founded July 15, 1913, the original American "fair courts" citizen organization; developer of the Missouri Plan merit selection, publisher of Judicature; national body dissolved 2014, continued from Honolulu, Hawaii.
American Mafia
The American Mafia, or La Cosa Nostra, is Italian-American organized crime operating in the United States since the 1920s through families such as New York's Five Families.
American Murder: The Family Next Door
American Murder: The Family Next Door is a 2020 American true-crime documentary directed by Jenny Popplewell and released on Netflix, about the 2018 Watts family murders.
American Service-Members' Protection Act
American Service-Members' Protection Act (ASPA), also called the Hague Invasion Act, a 2002 U.S. federal law (Title II of Pub. L. 107-206) limiting cooperation with the International Criminal Court, barring transfer of U.S. persons to it, and authorizing force to free detained U.S. or allied personnel.
American Society of Criminology
The American Society of Criminology (ASC) is an international organization of students, scholars, and practitioners in criminology and criminal justice, founded in Berkeley, California in 1941.
American Society of International Law
American Society of International Law (ASIL), founded 1906, chartered by Congress 1950: a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership society headquartered at Tillar House, Washington, DC, publisher of AJIL and International Legal Materials, with about 4,000 members from over 100 countries.