9,901 articles
Barbara J. Rothstein
Barbara J. Rothstein, born 1939, is an American jurist, a senior United States district judge in the Western District of Washington appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1980.
Barbara Lagoa
Barbara Lagoa (born 1967, Miami) is a Cuban-American federal judge on the Eleventh Circuit, formerly a Florida Supreme Court justice appointed by DeSantis in 2019 and a 2020 Trump Supreme Court shortlist contender.
Barbara M. Keenan
Barbara M. Keenan, also known as Barbara Milano Keenan, is an American jurist serving as a senior federal appeals judge on the Fourth Circuit since 2021.
Barbara Underwood
Barbara D. Underwood, New York Solicitor General since 2007 and the state's 66th and first female Attorney General (2018), formerly Principal Deputy and Acting U.S. Solicitor General; argued roughly 21 Supreme Court cases including Bruen and Commerce v. New York.
Barclays Bank Ltd v W J Simms, Son and Cooke (Southern) Ltd
Barclays Bank Ltd v W J Simms, Son and Cooke (Southern) Ltd [1980] QB 677, also cited as Barclays v Simms, is an English restitution case in which Robert Goff J let a bank recover a cheque paid despite a stop instruction, establishing the causative mistake test.
Baretta
Baretta: American ABC crime drama (1975–1978, 82 episodes) starring Robert Blake as undercover detective Tony Baretta, retooled from Toma; won two Emmys, famous for the cockatoo Fred.
Barksdale Organization
Barksdale Organization: fictional West Baltimore drug trafficking organization in HBO's The Wire, led by Avon Barksdale and Stringer Bell, based in the Franklin Terrace towers, dissolved in 2004.
Barreau du Québec
The Barreau du Québec, or Quebec Bar, is the professional order regulating advocates in Quebec under the Professional Code, with 31,501 members on its Roll as of 2026.
Barrington D. Parker, Jr.
Barrington D. Parker, Jr., also known as Barrington Daniels Parker, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a Second Circuit judge since 2001, appointed by President George W. Bush.
Barrio Azteca
Barrio Azteca, or Los Aztecas, is a transnational prison gang founded in the mid-1980s Texas prison system by El Paso and Juárez inmates, allied with the Juárez Cartel, funded by cuota extortion and drug trafficking, implicated in the 2010 U.S. consulate murders in Ciudad Juárez.
Barrister
Barrister: a lawyer in England and Wales and other common law jurisdictions, specialist advocate and legal adviser, called to the Bar by an Inns of Court; distinguished from solicitors by court advocacy role and separate BSB regulation.
Barry G. Silverman
Barry G. Silverman (born 1951) is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1998.
Barry George
Barry George, alias Barry Bulsara, wrongly convicted in 2001 of murdering BBC presenter Jill Dando; conviction quashed in 2007 over firearms residue evidence, acquitted at 2008 retrial, denied compensation in 2013.
Barry Mills (Aryan Brotherhood)
Barry Byron Mills, known as "The Baron," led the federal faction of the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood for decades before being convicted of murder and racketeering in 2006.
Barry Minkow
Barry Minkow is an American fraudster who founded ZZZZ Best in the 1980s. He later became a pastor and was convicted again for securities fraud and church embezzlement.
Barry Scheck
Barry Scheck is an American lawyer and legal scholar who co-founded the Innocence Project in 1992 and served as a DNA expert on the O.J. Simpson defense team.
Barry Seal
Barry Seal (Adler Berriman Seal, 1939–1986), American pilot and Medellín cartel drug smuggler turned DEA informant, based at Mena, Arkansas; photographed Sandinista cocaine loading in 1984, assassinated in Baton Rouge 1986.
Barry T. Moskowitz
Barry T. Moskowitz, also known as Barry Ted Moskowitz, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Southern District of California since 2019.
Barry W. Ashe
Barry W. Ashe, full name Barry Weldon Ashe, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in the Eastern District of Louisiana since 2018.
Base erosion and profit shifting
Base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) is multinational tax avoidance via profit shifting to low-tax jurisdictions, addressed by the OECD/G20 BEPS Project, its 15-action 2015 package, the Inclusive Framework, and the Two-Pillar global minimum tax.
Basel Convention
The Basel Convention (1989, in force 1992) is the main global treaty controlling transboundary movements of hazardous and other wastes, using prior informed consent; 191 parties, with Ban, plastic waste (2021), and e-waste (2025) amendments.
Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany
Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland (GG), the constitution of Germany; drafted 1948-1949 by the 65-member Parliamentary Council, promulgated 23 May 1949, extended to all of Germany on 3 October 1990; includes the eternity clause of Article 79(3).
Basic structure doctrine
Basic structure doctrine: Indian judicial principle from Kesavananda Bharati v State of Kerala (24 April 1973, 7-6, 13 judges) barring Parliament from altering the Constitution's essential features via Article 368 amendments, developed through Indira Nehru Gandhi, Minerva Mills, Waman Rao, NJAC.
Basil O'Connor
Basil O'Connor (1892–1972) was an American lawyer and philanthropist, Franklin D. Roosevelt's law partner and longtime president of the March of Dimes, which funded the Salk polio vaccine.
Bat Masterson
Bat Masterson (William Barclay Masterson, 1853-1921), Canadian-born buffalo hunter, Army scout, Ford County Kansas sheriff, and Dodge City lawman, later a New York boxing columnist and U.S. marshal; famed gunfighter whose documented killings were few.
Bathe family (Irish judicial dynasty)
The Bathe (Bath) family, an Anglo-Norman Irish judicial dynasty of Drumcondra and Meath, supplied James Bathe (chief baron 1535) and John Bathe (solicitor general 1551, chief justice of common pleas 1554, exchequer chancellor 1577), allied by marriage to the Prestons and Dillons, and produced the Jesuit William Bathe and courtier Sir John Bathe (d. 1630).
Battered woman syndrome
Battered woman syndrome (BWS), or battered person syndrome, is a psychological pattern from persistent intimate partner violence, introduced by Lenore Walker in 1979; used in self-defense and duress defenses but absent from the DSM.
Battery (crime)
Battery (crime): intentional harmful or offensive physical contact without consent, an intentional tort and general-intent crime; distinct from assault, merged into assault in 28 US states, six-month summary offense in England and Wales.
Battle of Alcatraz
The Battle of Alcatraz, or Alcatraz Blastout, was a failed May 2-4, 1946 escape attempt at Alcatraz federal penitentiary in which six inmates seized the cellhouse; five people died and two convicts were executed.
Battle of Mauropotamos
Battle of Mauropotamos (Μάχη τοῦ Μαυροποτάμου), 844 Byzantine defeat by the Abbasids in Asia Minor; Theoktistos commanded against Amr and Abu Said; site disputed between Bithynia and Cappadocia.