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Néstor Kirchner
Néstor Kirchner (Néstor Carlos Kirchner Ostoic), Argentine president 2003–2007, governor of Santa Cruz 1991–2001, husband of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner; restructured IMF debt, annulled amnesty laws, founded Kirchnerism; died 2010.
Net lease
Net lease: commercial lease where the tenant pays base rent plus property expenses. Triple net (NNN), the most common form, passes taxes, insurance, and maintenance to the tenant, typically on 10-15 year single-tenant leases.
Ñetas
Ñetas (Asociación Ñeta pro Derechos del Confinado) are a Puerto Rican prison and street gang founded in the 1970s by Carlos Torres Iriarte; largest prison gang in Puerto Rico, later spread to US mainland, Ecuador, and Spain, convicted en masse under RICO in 2016-2019.
Neuschwanstein murder
June 2023 killing of American tourist Eva Liu, 21, near Marienbrücke at Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria; Troy B. sentenced to life in Kempten in March 2024 for murder, rape with fatal consequences, and attempted murder.
Neutral Moresnet
Neutral Moresnet (Moresnet neutre, Neutraal Moresnet) was a 3.5 km² neutral territory existing 1816–1919, jointly administered by the Netherlands/Belgium and Prussia around the Altenberg zinc mine, briefly proclaimed the Esperanto state Amikejo, and annexed by Belgium under the Treaty of Versailles in 1920.
Nevsun Resources Ltd v Araya
Nevsun Resources Ltd v Araya (2020 SCC 5) is a Supreme Court of Canada decision letting Eritrean refugee workers sue a Canadian mining company for customary international law breaches, rejecting the act of state doctrine 7-2 and allowing corporate liability claims 5-4.
New approaches to international law
New Approaches to International Law (NAIL), also called the New Stream, is a critical movement in international legal scholarship founded by David Kennedy and Martti Koskenniemi, rooted in Critical Legal Studies, arguing international legal argument is indeterminate and power-laden.
New Bilibid Prison
New Bilibid Prison (NBP) is the Philippine national penitentiary in Muntinlupa City, run by the Bureau of Corrections. Opened 1940, overcrowded maximum-security compound, gang-controlled drug trade, slated for closure and redevelopment by 2028.
New Hampshire House of Representatives
New Hampshire House of Representatives, lower chamber of the General Court: 400 members, largest US state legislative body, $200 per two-year term, 203 districts with 39 floterial districts, Republican-controlled since 2020.
New Hebrides
New Hebrides, Pacific archipelago named by Cook in 1774, jointly ruled by Britain and France as an Anglo-French Condominium from 1906 to 1980 under parallel administrations and four legal systems, until independence as Vanuatu on 30 July 1980.
New International Economic Order
The New International Economic Order (NIEO) is the 1974 UN General Assembly program, resolution 3201 (S-VI), by which the Group of 77 demanded sovereignty over natural resources, fair terms of trade, and technology transfer; its core proposals stalled by the early 1980s.
New Life Children's Refuge case
New Life Children's Refuge case: January 2010 arrest of ten American Baptists led by Laura Silsby at Malpasse, Haiti, trying to take 33 non-orphaned children to the Dominican Republic without documents; child trafficking charges, Silsby convicted of lesser charges.
New Mexico State Penitentiary riot
New Mexico State Penitentiary riot, Penitentiary of New Mexico near Santa Fe, February 2-3, 1980: 36-hour inmate uprising, 33 inmates killed, 90 injured, 12 officers held hostage and rescued; second deadliest U.S. prison riot after Attica.
New Orleans crime family
New Orleans crime family (Matranga family), American Mafia organization founded around 1870 by Charles and Antonio Matranga; led for decades by Carlos Marcello, active in docks, gambling, and wire services, weakened by BRILAB and 1994 video-poker prosecutions.
New South Wales Bar Association
The New South Wales Bar Association is the professional association and delegated regulator of barristers in New South Wales, Australia, dating from 1901 and incorporated in 1936.
New START
New START, or New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, is a 2010 US-Russian nuclear arms treaty capping deployed strategic warheads at 1,550 with on-site inspections; it expired in February 2026.
New states of Germany
The five new states of Germany (neue Länder): Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Saxony, reestablished by the 1990 Ländereinführungsgesetz and acceded to the Federal Republic on 3 October 1990.
New Territories (新界)
New Territories (新界): largest region of Hong Kong, leased to Britain for 99 years in 1898 and returned in 1997; now the site of the 30,000-hectare Northern Metropolis development.
New York Accords
The New York Accords, formally the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, is a 1958 United Nations treaty on foreign arbitral awards.
New York City Bar Association
The New York City Bar Association, known as the City Bar, is a voluntary association of lawyers founded in 1870, with over 20,000 members and a landmark Manhattan headquarters.
New York Court of Appeals
The New York Court of Appeals is the highest court of New York State, established by the 1846 Constitution and organized in July 1847. Seven judges (a Chief Judge and six Associates) review questions of law from the Appellate Division; current Chief Judge is Rowan D. Wilson.
New York divorce law
New York divorce law (Domestic Relations Law) requires residency and one of seven grounds; the seventh, no-fault irretrievable breakdown for six months, was added October 12, 2010, making New York the last state to adopt no-fault divorce.
New York State Bar Association
The New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) is a voluntary association of about 55,000 lawyers, founded in Albany in 1876 and the largest voluntary state bar in the United States.
New York Supreme Court
New York Supreme Court is the state's trial-level court of general jurisdiction, not its highest court; Court of Appeals is highest. Established 1691; four Appellate Divisions; justices elected 14-year terms.
New York Times Co. v. United States
New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971), the Pentagon Papers case: Supreme Court held the government failed to justify prior restraint of the Times and Washington Post publishing the leaked Vietnam study.
New York University Journal of International Law and Politics
New York University Journal of International Law and Politics (JILP), ISSN 0028-7873, is a student-run NYU Law journal founded in 1968 with Ford Foundation support, publishing peer-reviewed international law scholarship, student notes, and an online forum.
New Zealand Law Society
The New Zealand Law Society is the professional body regulating all practicing lawyers in New Zealand, established in 1869 and governed by the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006.
New Zealand Maori Council v Attorney-General
New Zealand Maori Council v Attorney-General [1987] 1 NZLR 641, the Lands case, is the Court of Appeal decision that first articulated the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi, holding the Treaty created a partnership with fiduciary-like good faith duties binding Crown asset transfers under the State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986.
New Zealand–Papua New Guinea relations
Bilateral relationship between New Zealand and Papua New Guinea (PNG), established in 1975; marked by the Statement of Partnership 2025–2029, Bougainville peace mediation, an Economic Plan of Action, defence cooperation, and RSE labour mobility.
Newgate novel
The Newgate novel was a genre of British fiction of the 1830s and 1840s centered on criminals, named after Newgate Prison, with works by Bulwer-Lytton, Ainsworth, and Dickens.