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London Dungeon
The London Dungeon is a Merlin Entertainments walk-through theatrical attraction at County Hall, South Bank, London, founded in 1974 by Annabel Geddes as a Tooley Street wax museum and moved from London Bridge in 2013.
London Protocol (1830)
London Protocol of 3 February 1830: British-French-Russian conference protocol declaring Greece an independent state with the Acheloos-Spercheios border, a Sovereign Prince (Leopold declined; Otto of Bavaria followed), superseding the 1827 Treaty of London and 1829 autonomy protocol.
London Review of International Law
The London Review of International Law is an online-only, peer-reviewed academic journal on international law, published by Oxford University Press since 2013 and edited by Martin Clark, Stephen Humphreys, and Tor Krever.
London wartime agreements of Allied governments in exile
The London wartime agreements of Allied governments in exile were treaties and declarations signed in London during World War II, from the 1939 Anglo-Polish Agreement to the 1942 Anglo-Soviet Treaty.
Long Bay Correctional Centre
Long Bay Correctional Centre, also called Long Bay jail, is a group of three correctional centers, including Long Bay Hospital, at Matraville in Sydney's eastern suburbs.
Lonny R. Suko
Lonny R. Suko, born in 1943 in Spokane, Washington, is a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Washington, appointed by George W. Bush in 2003.
Looting
Looting, also called pillaging or war booty, is theft of goods during a disturbance such as war, riot, or natural disaster, when normal property enforcement breaks down.
Lord Advocate
Lord Advocate, also called His Majesty's Advocate: senior Scottish Law Officer and head of criminal prosecutions and deaths investigation, currently Ruth Charteris KC (appointed June 2026); distinguished from the Solicitor General for Scotland, her deputy.
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.
Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales: the most senior judge of England and Wales, Head of the Judiciary and President of the Courts; since 1 October 2023 Baroness Carr, the first woman holding the office.
Lord Justice Clerk
Lord Justice Clerk: second most senior judge in Scotland, president of the Second Division of the Inner House of the Court of Session and co-head of the High Court of Justiciary; current holder Lord Beckett since February 2025.
Lord of the manor
Lord of the manor: holder of a lordship of the manor, an incorporeal hereditament in England and Wales law; not nobility, no statutory rights, saleable, with manorial rights over minerals, sport, and markets preserved since 1926.
Loren L. AliKhan
Loren L. AliKhan, born 1983, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge for the District of Columbia since 2023, appointed by President Biden.
Lorenzo Gilyard
Lorenzo Gilyard (born c. 1951), the Kansas City Strangler, an American serial killer who strangled 13 women and girls in Kansas City from 1977 to 1993, identified in 2004 by DNA from a 1987 blood sample and convicted in 2007 of six murders, serving six life terms without parole.
Loretta A. Preska
Loretta A. Preska is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Southern District of New York since 2017, after serving as chief judge from 2009 to 2016.
Loretta C. Biggs
Loretta C. Biggs, born Loretta Copeland Biggs, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of North Carolina since 2014.
Loretta Lynch
Loretta Lynch, also Loretta E. Lynch, born 1959, is an American lawyer and the 83rd U.S. Attorney General (2015-2017), the first African-American woman in the role, formerly U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
Lori Erica Ruff
Lori Erica Ruff, born Kimberly McLean, was an American woman who lived under a stolen child's identity and died by suicide in Longview, Texas, in 2010; DNA genealogy identified her in 2016.
Lorna G. Schofield
Lorna G. Schofield is an American jurist, a federal district judge in Manhattan appointed by Barack Obama in 2012 and reportedly the first Filipino American Article III judge.
Lorna Kapunan
Lorna Patajo-Kapunan (born 1952) is a Filipino litigation lawyer, founder of Kapunan & Castillo Law Offices, CCP vice chairperson, and a pro bono private prosecutor in Sara Duterte's 2026 impeachment trial.
Los Angeles crime family
Los Angeles crime family (Dragna family), the Southern California La Cosa Nostra organization led by Jack Dragna until 1957; weakened by informant Jimmy Fratianno and 1980s prosecutions, it remains California's last Mafia family.
Los Ántrax
Los Ántrax, armed enforcement and security group of Ismael El Mayo Zambada's faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, founded 2008 by Chino Antrax after the Beltrán Leyva split; its leaders were killed, imprisoned, or fugitive by 2024.
Los Pepes
Los Pepes, acronym of People Persecuted by Pablo Escobar, was a Colombian vigilante coalition formed in January 1993 to destroy Pablo Escobar, who was killed in December 1993.
Los Zetas
Los Zetas, Mexican criminal organization founded in the late 1990s by Gulf Cartel leader Osiel Cárdenas from military deserters; split from the Gulf Cartel in 2010, notorious for the San Fernando and Allende massacres, fragmented after 2012 into the Northeast Cartel and Old School Zetas.
Loss of consortium
Loss of consortium is a tort claim, usually by a spouse, for the loss of intangible relationship benefits such as companionship, affection, and society after a tortfeasor injures or kills the claimant's partner; governed state by state, historically husband-only, extended to wives after Hitaffer (1950).
Louis B. Sohn
Louis B. Sohn (Louis Bruno Sohn, 1914–2006) was a Ukrainian-born American legal scholar, a founding father of international human rights and environmental law who helped draft the UN Charter.
Louis Brandeis
Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941), Boston progressive lawyer known as the "People's Lawyer" and U.S. Supreme Court associate justice 1916-1939, first Jewish justice; creator of the Brandeis brief and co-author of "The Right to Privacy."
Louis D. Hastings
Louis D. Hastings (born 1944), McCarthy, Alaska massacre perpetrator; shot six residents dead and wounded two on March 1, 1983 as part of a plan to sabotage the Trans-Alaska pipeline; sentenced to 634 years.
Louis Freeh
Louis Freeh (born 1950) is an American former judge and prosecutor who served as FBI Director from September 1993 to June 25, 2001, led the Pizza Connection mafia prosecution, decentralized the bureau, and was later assessed by the 9/11 Commission.
Louis Guirola, Jr.
Louis Guirola, Jr. (born 1951) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge in Mississippi, appointed by George W. Bush in 2004.