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Liancourt Rocks dispute
Liancourt Rocks dispute: sovereignty conflict over islets called Dokdo (Korea) and Takeshima (Japan), named after a French whaling ship in 1849; controlled by South Korea, claimed by Japan, ICJ referrals rejected by Korea.
Liaquat Ali Khan (لیاقت علی خان)
Liaquat Ali Khan (لیاقت علی خان, 1895–1951), Shaheed-e-Millat, Pakistan's first prime minister 1947–1951, Muslim League honorary secretary 1936–47, mover of the 1949 Objectives Resolution, assassinated at Rawalpindi's Company Bagh on 16 October 1951.
Liberian forced labor scandal
The Liberian forced labor scandal was a 1929 to 1934 controversy in which an international commission found Liberian officials shipping forced laborers to Fernando Po.
Liborio Bellomo
Liborio Bellomo, born Liborio Salvatore Bellomo in 1957 and known as "Big Barney," is an American alleged mobster and reported boss of New York's Genovese crime family.
License
License (law): permission from an authority or owner allowing a licensee to do what would otherwise be prohibited. Unlike a lease, a license creates no property interest, is usually revocable and non-assignable, and covers land use and IP.
Lidia Poët
Lidia Poët (1855–1949), first woman admitted to the Italian bar (Turin, 9 August 1883), disbarred by the Court of Cassation in 1884, readmitted in 1920 after the Sacchi Law; subject of the Netflix series The Law According to Lidia Poët.
Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants
Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants (1994), the "hot coffee case": Stella Liebeck, 79, won a product liability verdict after third-degree burns from 180-190°F coffee; $160,000 compensatory plus $2.7 million punitive, cut to $480,000, settled confidentially.
Lien
Lien: a security interest or legal right a creditor acquires in a debtor's property to secure a debt, without transferring ownership. Also legal lien, common-law lien. Covers categories (legal, equitable, statutory, maritime, tax), possessory character, and priority rules.
Life imprisonment
Life imprisonment, or life without parole, is a criminal sentence keeping a convicted person in prison for life, increasingly used instead of the death penalty.
Life imprisonment in England and Wales
Life imprisonment in England and Wales: mandatory for murder, discretionary for other serious offences. Covers the tariff system, whole life orders, Parole Board release, the Vinter ECHR ruling, and population statistics.
Life imprisonment in Norway
Life imprisonment in Norway (livstidsstraff): a formal penalty from the 1842 Criminal Code, rarely used, abolished in 1981 and replaced by a 21-year maximum; forvaring, indefinite preventive detention extendable by five years, now serves as the informal life sentence.
Life imprisonment in the United States
Life imprisonment in the United States covers parole-eligible life terms, life without parole (LWOP), and virtual life sentences. 194,803 prisoners serve life terms; 56,245 serve LWOP, concentrated in Florida, California, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, and Michigan.
Lil Durk murder-for-hire trial
Federal trial of rapper Lil Durk (Durk Banks), charged in 2024 under 18 U.S.C. § 1958 with a murder-for-hire plot targeting Quando Rondo that killed Saviay'a Robinson; acquitted on all counts September 11, 2026; racketeering trial set for August 30, 2027.
Liles C. Burke
Liles C. Burke, born 1969 in Cullman, Alabama, is a United States district judge for the Northern District of Alabama, appointed by President Trump in 2018.
Lim Koon Teck
Lim Koon Teck (林坤德), Singapore-born barrister in the Colonial Legal Service, Deputy Registrar and Sheriff of the Supreme Court (1932), magistrate in Penang, and Legislative Assembly member for Paya Lebar, 1955–1959; father of sculptor Kim Lim.
Limitation of liability clause
A limitation of liability clause is a contract term capping a party's damages, typically through a monetary cap or exclusion of certain damages, standard in software agreements.
Limited liability
Limited liability is a business law concept protecting shareholders from a company's debts up to the amount they invested, contrasting with the unlimited liability of sole traders.
Limited liability company
Limited liability company (LLC): a U.S. state-law business entity giving members limited liability with partnership-style pass-through taxation, first created by Wyoming's 1977 statute; FinCEN BOI reporting for domestic LLCs was permanently removed in 2026.
Limited liability partnership
A limited liability partnership (LLP) is a hybrid business form giving partners a liability shield with partnership taxation; used by law, accounting, and medical firms; governed by acts such as the UK LLP Act 2000 and India's LLP Act 2008, with full-shield and partial-shield state variants in the US.
Limited partnership
Limited partnership (LP, société en commandite): a partnership with general partners who manage and bear unlimited liability and limited partners liable only up to their capital contribution; standard vehicle for private equity and venture funds, governed in the UK by the 1907 Act.
Lina Khan
Lina Khan, American antitrust scholar and FTC Chair June 2021 to January 2025; author of the 2017 Yale Law Journal article "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox"; youngest-ever FTC chair at 32.
Lincoln's Inn
Lincoln's Inn (Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn), one of the four Inns of Court in London with the exclusive right to call barristers; records from 1422, site granted 1228, largest of the Inns.
Linda Carty
Linda Carty, British national born 1958 in Saint Kitts, on Texas death row since 2002 for the 2001 kidnapping-murder of neighbor Joana Rodriguez; case contested over defense counsel and consular notification.
Linda Fairstein
Linda Fairstein, former chief of the Manhattan DA's Sex Crimes Unit, oversaw the 1989 Central Park Five investigation, later became a bestselling crime novelist, and settled a 2024 defamation suit against Netflix over When They See Us.
Linda Kasabian
Linda Kasabian (Linda Darlene Drouin, later Chiochios), Manson Family member and getaway driver for the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders, was the immune star witness whose 18 days of 1970 trial testimony convicted Manson and three followers; she died in 2023.
Linda Lopez (federal judge)
Linda Lopez, born 1968, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of California since 2021, nominated by President Biden.
Linda R. Reade
Linda R. Reade is an American jurist serving as a senior US district judge for the Northern District of Iowa, appointed by George W. Bush in 2002.
Linda V. Parker
Linda Vivienne Parker, born 1958 in Detroit, is a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2014.
Lindbergh kidnapping
The Lindbergh kidnapping: the March 1, 1932 abduction and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. in Hopewell, New Jersey; Bruno Richard Hauptmann's 1935 trial, 1936 execution, the Lindbergh Law, and lasting guilt controversy.
Lindsay C. Jenkins
Lindsay C. Jenkins, born Lindsay Clayton Jenkins in 1977, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Illinois since 2023.