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Shanghai French Concession (上海法租界)
Shanghai French Concession (上海法租界), the French-administered concession in Shanghai, governed from 1862 by the 公董局 municipal council under the French consul general under an 1866 18-article charter; separate from the International Settlement, with Chinese residents gaining elected councilors only in 1927.
Shanghai International Settlement (上海公共租界)
The Shanghai International Settlement (上海公共租界), formed from the Anglo-American concessions in 1854, was a foreign-governed district of Shanghai run by the Shanghai Municipal Council until Japanese control in 1941.
Shanghaiing
Shanghaiing was the practice of kidnapping men, usually by drugging or trickery, to serve aboard merchant ships; crimps sold them to captains for a fee called blood money.
Shankar Dayal Sharma (शंकर दयाल शर्मा)
Shankar Dayal Sharma (शंकर दयाल शर्मा), 1918–1999, Indian lawyer and Congress politician; ninth President of India 1992–1997, eighth Vice President 1987–1992, Chief Minister of Bhopal, Governor of three states, Cambridge-educated legal scholar.
Shanlyn A. S. Park
Shanlyn A. S. Park, born Shanlyn Alohakeao Souza Park, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge for the District of Hawaii since 2024, appointed by President Biden.
Shapour Bakhtiar (شاپور بختیار)
Shapour Bakhtiar (شاپور بختیار), 1914–1991, Iranian lawyer and politician, last prime minister under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (37 days, 1979), National Front and Iran Party leader, NAMIR founder in Paris exile, assassinated in Suresnes, France in 1991.
Sharad H. Desai
Sharad H. Desai, born Sharad Harshad Desai in 1981, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Arizona since 2025.
Shareholder
A shareholder, also called a stockholder, is a person or entity that holds shares of stock in a company, giving rights to dividends, information, and voting in shareholder meetings.
Shareholder rights plan
A shareholder rights plan, or poison pill, is a takeover defense issuing one right per share that dilutes any acquirer crossing a trigger threshold, typically 10-20%. Invented by Martin Lipton, first adopted by Household International in 1984, upheld in Moran v. Household International (1985).
Sharia courts in the Philippines
Sharia courts in the Philippines are special courts applying the 1977 Code of Muslim Personal Laws to Filipino Muslims' family and personal disputes; 5 district and 51 circuit courts, now expanding under the Bangsamoro Organic Law with a Shari'ah High Court.
Sharion Aycock
Sharion Aycock (born 1955) is an American jurist, a senior United States district judge for the Northern District of Mississippi appointed by George W. Bush in 2007.
Sharon J. Coleman
Sharon Johnson Coleman, born in 1960 in Chicago, is a United States district judge for the Northern District of Illinois, appointed by President Barack Obama and confirmed in 2010.
Sharon Kinne
Sharon Kinne (Diedra Glabus, La Pistolera) was an American woman tried in three 1960s killings in Missouri and Mexico who escaped a Mexican prison in 1969 and was confirmed in 2025 to have died in Alberta, Canada in 2022.
Sharon L. Blackburn
Sharon L. Blackburn, also known as Sharon Lovelace Blackburn, is an American jurist and senior United States district judge for the Northern District of Alabama, appointed in 1991.
Sharon L. Gleason
Sharon L. Gleason, born Sharon Louise Gleason, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge for the District of Alaska since 2012, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Sharon Prost
Sharon Prost, born 1951, is an American judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, appointed by George W. Bush in 2001.
Shaun Attwood
Shaun Attwood, aka English Shaun, is a British ex-Ecstasy trafficker from Widnes who became an Arizona stockbroker-millionaire, served almost six years after a 2002 arrest, wrote Jon's Jail Journal and Hard Time, and is now a true-crime YouTuber banned from the US.
Shaun Wallace
Shaun Anthony Linford Wallace (born 1960), the Dark Destroyer on ITV's The Chase, is a London criminal defence barrister at Great James Street Chambers and the first Black winner of Mastermind (2004).
Shawn Grate
Shawn Grate, Ohio serial killer arrested in 2016 after a captive woman's 911 call; convicted of murdering Elizabeth Griffin, Stacey Stanley, Rebekah Leicy, Candace Cunningham, and Dana Lowrey; sentenced to death.
Shawn Merriman (fraudster)
Shawn Richard Merriman, the "Mormon Madoff," ran a $20 million Ponzi scheme through Market Street Advisors in Aurora, Colorado, from 1994 to 2009, defrauding 67 investors; he received 151 months in prison.
Sheel Nagu
Sheel Nagu, born 1965, is an Indian jurist on the Supreme Court of India since 2026, after serving as Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
Sheena Bora murder case
Sheena Bora murder case: 2012 alleged killing of 24-year-old Mumbai executive Sheena Bora by her mother Indrani Mukerjea, with Sanjeev Khanna and driver Shyamvar Rai; surfaced in 2015, investigated by the CBI, trial still ongoing.
Sheila Abdus-Salaam
Sheila Abdus-Salaam (born Sheila Turner, 1952-2017) was a New York judge, the first African-American woman on the state Court of Appeals and the first female Muslim judge in the United States.
Sheila LaBarre
Sheila LaBarre, born Sheila Kaye Bailey in 1958, is a New Hampshire murderer serving life without parole for killing Kenneth Countie and Michael Deloge at her Epping horse farm; her 2008 insanity defense failed and her appeal was affirmed in 2010.
Sheilah Martin
Sheilah L. Martin (born 1957, Montreal) is a Canadian jurist, formerly a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada (2017–2026), earlier Alberta trial and appeal courts, University of Calgary law dean, and residential schools settlement contributor.
Shelby County v. Holder
Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013): 5-4 Supreme Court decision striking down the Voting Rights Act's Section 4(b) coverage formula, ending Section 5 preclearance and leaving Section 2 litigation as the main enforcement path.
Shelley v. Kraemer
Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1 (1948), also styled with companion case McGhee v. Sipes: Supreme Court decision holding state courts cannot enforce racially restrictive real estate covenants because judicial enforcement is state action violating the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.
Shelly D. Dick
Shelly D. Dick, also known as Shelly Deckert Dick, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Louisiana since 2013, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Sheri P. Chappell
Sheri Polster Chappell (born 1962) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of Florida since 2013, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Sheria A. Clarke
Sheria A. Clarke, also known as Sheria Akins Clarke, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in South Carolina since 2026, appointed by President Trump.