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Nancy G. Edmunds
Nancy G. Edmunds, born 1947, is a retired American judge who served on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan from 1992 to 2026.
Nancy Jo Rosenstengel
Nancy Jo Rosenstengel is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Illinois since 2014, nominated by President Barack Obama.
Nancy L. Maldonado
Nancy L. Maldonado, born 1975, is an American jurist serving on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 2024, appointed by President Biden.
Nancy L. Moritz
Nancy L. Moritz, born Nancy Louise Moritz in 1960, is an American jurist serving as a Tenth Circuit federal appeals judge since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Nancy Torresen
Nancy Torresen, born 1959, is an American jurist serving as a senior federal judge for the District of Maine, the first woman to hold that role.
Nandipha Magudumana
Nandipha Magudumana, also called Dr Nandipha, is a South African doctor accused of helping Thabo Bester escape Mangaung prison in 2022; arrested in Tanzania, deported April 2023, bail refused, deportation challenge before the Constitutional Court, trial set 2027.
Nanette K. Laughrey
Nanette K. Laughrey is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri since 2011.
Nannette J. Brown
Nannette Jolivette Brown, born 1963, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana since 2011, appointed by President Obama.
Nannie Doss
Nannie Doss (Nancy Hazle, 1905-1965), the Giggling Granny and Jolly Black Widow, was an American serial killer who confessed to poisoning four of five husbands with arsenic across four states, 1945-1954, was suspected in up to 12 deaths, and was convicted of only one murder.
Naomi R. Buchwald
Naomi Reice Buchwald is a senior United States district judge for the Southern District of New York, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1999 after serving as a federal prosecutor.
Napoleonic Code
Napoleonic Code (Code civil des Français), French civil code promulgated 21 March 1804 with 36 laws and 2,281 articles in three books; renamed Code Napoléon in 1807, still in force in amended form, and the foundation of many civil law systems including Louisiana's.
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (मादक पदार्थ और मनोदैहिक पदार्थ अधिनियम, 1985)
India's principal drug-control statute, the NDPS Act 1985 (मादक पदार्थ और मनोदैहिक पदार्थ अधिनियम, 1985), in force 14 November 1985, prohibits narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors except medical or scientific use, with graded quantity-based sentencing.
Nasirul Mulk (ناصر الملک)
Nasirul Mulk (ناصر الملک), born 1950 in Mingora, Swat, is a Pakistani jurist who served as the 22nd Chief Justice of Pakistan (2014–2015) and the seventh caretaker prime minister (June–August 2018), after refusing the 2007 PCO oath.
Nasrin Sotoudeh
Nasrin Sotoudeh (نسرین ستوده), born 1963, is an Iranian human rights lawyer, 2012 Sakharov Prize laureate with Jafar Panahi and 2026 Václav Havel Prize winner, sentenced to 38 years and 148 lashes for defending women's rights.
Natalia Poklonskaya (Наталья Поклонская)
Natalia Poklonskaya (Наталья Поклонская), born 1980, is a Russian politician and former Prosecutor General of Crimea appointed in March 2014, famous for the 2014 "Nyash Myash" anime meme, later a State Duma deputy, and sanctioned by the US, EU, UK, and others.
Natalie Cochran
Natalie Cochran, a West Virginia pharmacist, ran a $2.5 million Ponzi scheme through her companies TMS and TSG, was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison, and in 2025 was convicted of first-degree murder for poisoning her husband Michael with insulin and sentenced to life without parole.
Natascha Kampusch
Natascha Kampusch, Austrian author abducted 2 March 1998 in Vienna by Wolfgang Přiklopil, held about eight years in a concealed room, escaped 23 August 2006; subject of memoir 3,096 Days and a 2012 parliamentary inquiry.
Natasha C. Merle
Natasha C. Merle, born 1983, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of New York since 2023, appointed by President Biden.
Natasha Hausdorff
Natasha Hausdorff, British barrister and international law expert, legal director of UK Lawyers for Israel and founder of the Centre for International Rule of Law, known for uti possidetis juris border arguments and defenses of Israel at the ICJ, ICC, and UN.
Natasha Ryan
Natasha Ryan, the Australian 'girl in the cupboard': Rockhampton teenager who vanished in August 1998, was presumed murdered by Leonard Fraser, and was found alive in 2003 hiding at boyfriend Scott Black's home; she died in 2024.
Nathaniel Bar-Jonah
Nathaniel Bar-Jonah, born David Paul Brown (1957-2008), American convicted child molester and kidnapper sentenced to 130 years in Montana; accused, never convicted, of murdering and cannibalizing Zachary Ramsay.
Nathaniel M. Gorton
Nathaniel M. Gorton, born in 1938, is an American jurist serving as a senior U.S. district judge for the District of Massachusetts, appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1992.
National and regional societies of international law
National and regional societies of international law are learned societies that promote international law within countries and regions, beginning with the ILA and Institut de Droit International in 1873.
National Commission for Backward Classes (राष्ट्रीय पिछड़ा वर्ग आयोग)
National Commission for Backward Classes (राष्ट्रीय पिछड़ा वर्ग आयोग, NCBC), India's constitutional body under Article 338B safeguarding socially and educationally backward classes (OBCs); set up 1993, constitutional status 2018, advises on central OBC lists and 27 percent reservation.
National Commission for Scheduled Castes (राष्ट्रीय अनुसूचित जाति आयोग)
National Commission for Scheduled Castes (राष्ट्रीय अनुसूचित जाति आयोग, NCSC): India's constitutional body under Article 338 safeguarding Scheduled Castes; Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson and three Members; recommendatory powers, civil-court powers for inquiry only.
National Company Law Appellate Tribunal
National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT, राष्ट्रीय कम्पनी विधि अपील अधिकरण): India's appellate tribunal under Section 410, Companies Act 2013, effective 1 June 2016, hearing appeals from NCLT on company law and IBC matters, CCI orders, and NFRA orders.
National Company Law Tribunal
The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) is India's quasi-judicial tribunal for company law disputes and corporate insolvency, constituted under the Companies Act, 2013 and effective from 1 June 2016.
National Crime Records Bureau
National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB, राष्ट्रीय अपराध रिकॉर्ड ब्यूरो), set up in 1986 under India's Ministry of Home Affairs, compiles Crime in India statistics, runs CCTNS, the Digital Police Portal, NAFIS fingerprints, and implements the CrPI Act 2022.
National Crime Syndicate
National Crime Syndicate: alleged coast-to-coast American organized crime alliance formed around the 1929 Atlantic City Conference by Luciano and Lansky, named by the 1951 Kefauver Committee, disputed by scholars as a Mafia myth.
National Crime Victimization Survey
The National Crime Victimization Survey is an annual Bureau of Justice Statistics household survey, run since 1973, that measures criminal victimization in the United States, including unreported crimes.