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Attica Correctional Facility
Attica Correctional Facility: maximum-security New York State prison in Wyoming County, opened 1931; site of the September 1971 uprising, the deadliest in U.S. prison history, with 43 deaths.
Attica Prison riot
Attica Prison riot: September 9-13, 1971 uprising at Attica Correctional Facility, New York, also called the Attica uprising; about 1,000 inmates seized the prison, took 42 hostages, and 43 people died when Governor Rockefeller ordered the retaking.
Attorney at law
Attorney at law (attorney) is the formal US title for a licensed lawyer, interchangeable with lawyer in every state. Covers ABA-defined roles, conduct rules, licensure, and contrast with split solicitor/barrister professions.
Attorney general
Attorney general: the chief legal officer of a government, advising the executive and often overseeing prosecution. Descends from England's 1243 King's Attorney; exists in all 50 US states, the UK, Canada, and most democracies.
Attorney General for England and Wales
The Attorney General for England and Wales (AGEW) is the UK Government's chief legal adviser to the Crown, superintendent of the CPS and Serious Fraud Office, and holder of independent public interest functions; the current holder is Ellie Reeves KC MP.
Attorney General of India
The Attorney General of India (AGI), created under Article 76 of the Constitution, is the Government of India's chief legal adviser and topmost law officer. First held by M.C. Setalvad (1950); current incumbent R. Venkataramani, reappointed from 1 October 2025.
Attorney General of Ireland
The Attorney General of Ireland (Ard-Aighneacht na hÉireann) is the constitutional legal adviser to the Government of Ireland, its chief law officer, appointed on the Taoiseach's nomination.
Attorney General of Malta
The Attorney General of Malta is Malta's independent chief public prosecutor, an office created under British rule in 1832 and headed since 2020 by Victoria Buttigieg.
Attorney-General for Ireland
Attorney-General for Ireland: the pre-independence chief law officer whose functions passed under the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 to the Free State Attorney-General and continue in the modern constitutional office under Article 30 of the 1937 Constitution.
Attorney-General of Ceylon
The Attorney-General of Ceylon, formerly the Queen's Advocate of Ceylon, was the chief law officer and principal public prosecutor of Ceylon, renamed from Queen's Advocate in 1884.
Attorney–client privilege
Attorney-client privilege, the oldest common-law evidentiary privilege, protects confidential lawyer-client communications made to seek legal advice; it belongs to the client, has crime-fraud and third-party limits, and was reshaped for corporations by Upjohn (1981).
Audrey G. Fleissig
Audrey Goldstein Fleissig, born 1955, is a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Missouri, nominated by President Obama in 2010 and confirmed 90 to 0.
Audrey Marie Hilley
Audrey Marie Hilley (born Frazier, 1933), Alabama's "Black Widow," poisoned her husband Frank with arsenic in 1975 and her daughter Carol in 1979, fled under false identities, was convicted in 1983, and died after a 1987 prison furlough.
Augusto Pierantoni
Augusto Francescopaolo Pierantoni (1840–1911) was an Italian international lawyer, parliamentarian, and Garibaldian veteran who co-founded the Institut de droit international in 1873 and held chairs at Modena, Naples, and Rome.
Augustyn Rotundus
Augustyn Rotundus (Augustinas Rotundas, c. 1520–1582) was a Polish-born lawyer and royal secretary, wójt of Vilnius, best known for his 1564 dialogue Rozmowa Polaka z Litwinem.
Auld Alliance
The Auld Alliance (Vieille Alliance) was the Franco-Scottish alliance begun by the treaties of Paris of 22–23 October 1295 against Edward I of England, ending militarily in 1560 but enduring commercially and culturally.
Austin Knudsen
Austin Knudsen is an American Republican politician serving as Attorney General of Montana, first elected in 2020 and reelected in 2024 after working as a county prosecutor in Indian Country.
Australia Act 1986
Australia Act 1986 (Cth), passed with the Australia Act 1986 (UK) and six state Acts, took effect 3 March 1986, ending UK legislative power over Australia, state-court Privy Council appeals, and disallowance of state laws.
Australia–Papua New Guinea relations
Australia–Papua New Guinea relations cover colonial administration to 1975 independence, the 2023 Bilateral Security Agreement, and the 2025 Pukpuk Mutual Defence Treaty alliance, plus Australia's role as PNG's largest development partner with $707 million in ODA.
Australia–Solomon Islands Maritime Boundary Agreement
Australia–Solomon Islands Maritime Boundary Agreement (Honiara, 13 September 1988; [1989] ATS 12; entry into force 14 April 1989). Coral Sea treaty delimiting the Australian Fishing Zone and Solomon Islands EEZ and continental shelf along geodesics through points U, V, and R1, with cross-boundary resource sharing and peaceful dispute settlement clauses.
Australian Army Legal Corps
The Australian Army Legal Corps is the corps of Australian Army officers, all admitted legal practitioners, who advise commanders and specialize in operational, administrative, and disciplinary law.
Australian family law
Australian family law, governed by the Family Law Act 1975, covers no-fault divorce, children's best interests, property settlement, and child support, with major reforms commencing May 2024 and June 2025.
Australian nationality law
Australian nationality law centers on the Australian Citizenship Act 2007, governing acquisition by birth, descent, adoption, and conferral, plus renunciation, ministerial revocation, court-ordered cessation for dual citizens only, and High Court limits from the Benbrika case.
Australian property law
Australian property law covers the Torrens title-by-registration system with indefeasibility, native title under the Native Title Act 1993 after Mabo (No 2), and Commonwealth foreign investment screening including the 2025 ban on foreign purchases of established dwellings.
Australian trust law
Australian trust law governs trusts, where a trustee holds legal title to property for beneficiaries. Judge-made equity plus state Trustee Acts and Commonwealth tax law; not uniform across jurisdictions; Queensland codified in the Trusts Act 2025.
Austrian State Treaty
The Austrian State Treaty, signed in Vienna on 15 May 1955, ended the four-power occupation of Austria and re-established it as a sovereign, independent, and democratic state.
Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1878–1918: occupation mandated by the 1878 Berlin Congress, annexation in 1908, Joint Finance Ministry administration, the Kállay era, and the 1910 Statute.
Author
Author (copyright law): the person who creates a work and initially owns its copyright, under US work-for-hire, EU Infopaq originality, UK CDPA s9(3), and AI-era human-authorship rules.
Auto Shankar
Auto Shankar (Gauri Shankar), Chennai auto-rickshaw driver convicted of six murders and sentenced to death in 1991; his disputed autobiography triggered R. Rajagopal v. State of Tamil Nadu (1994), India's landmark privacy and press freedom judgment.
Avijit Misra
Avijit Misra (अविजीत मिश्रा), born 1962, is a retired Indian Army colonel cashiered after a 2006 court martial and reinstated by the Armed Forces Tribunal in 2012.