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Swedish Estonia
Swedish Estonia, remembered in Estonian as Rootsi aeg, was the period from 1561 to 1710, legally 1721, when Estonia belonged to the Swedish realm, ending with the Great Northern War.
Swedish Lithuania
Swedish Lithuania: the 1655–1656 Swedish-Grand Duchy of Lithuania union under the Kėdainiai treaties, distinct from Swedish Livonia and Estonia, collapsed in the 1656 Lithuanian uprising against Swedish rule.
Swedish Pomerania
Swedish Pomerania (Svenska Pommern): Baltic province held by Sweden 1648–1815, granted at Westphalia to Queen Christina, reduced by the 1720 Treaty of Stockholm, ceded to Prussia in 1815.
Swiss Code of Obligations
The Swiss Code of Obligations (Code des obligations) is Switzerland's federal statute governing contracts, tort, unjust enrichment, company law, and commercial registration, in force since 1 January 1912.
Swiss neutrality
Swiss neutrality: Switzerland's permanent, armed neutrality, recognized in the 1815 Treaty of Paris, anchored in the constitution since 1848, governed by the 1907 Hague Conventions, and reshaped by the 2022 sanctions debate over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Switch (corporal punishment)
A switch is a thin flexible tree branch used as a corporal punishment implement, distinct from the birch and cane; historically common in American homes and schools, still legally referenced in states such as Oklahoma.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee (শ্যামাপ্রসাদ মুখার্জী)
Syama Prasad Mukherjee (শ্যামাপ্রসাদ মুখার্জী), also Syama Prasad Mookerjee, 1901–1953, Indian educationist, barrister, and politician; Calcutta University's youngest Vice-Chancellor, first Minister for Industry and Supply, and founder-president of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh in 1951; died in detention in Srinagar in 1953.
Syamal Bhushan Ghosh Dastidar
Syamal Bhushan Ghosh Dastidar (born 1947) is a retired Indian civil servant, former Member Traffic of the Railway Board, 2009 Padma Shri civil service awardee, and later Vice Chairman of the Railway Claims Tribunal and NTPC independent director.
Syariah Court of Singapore
Syariah Court of Singapore: statutory court administering Muslim family law (marriage, divorce, property, maintenance) under AMLA 1966, established 1958; distinct from civil Family Justice Courts and from Brunei's Syariah Court.
Syariah Courts of Malaysia
Syariah Courts of Malaysia (Mahkamah Syariah) are the religious courts for Muslims in Malaysia's dual judicial system, based on Article 121(1A) and the State List, handling Islamic family and limited criminal matters alongside civil courts.
Sydney gang rapes
Sydney gang rapes: series of gang rapes in Bankstown and south-west Sydney around 2000-2001 by Lebanese-Australian youth and later Pakistani brothers, whose sentencing sparked racialized media and political controversy in NSW.
Syngman Rhee (이승만)
Syngman Rhee (이승만, Unam), 1875–1965, first president of South Korea 1948–1960 and Provisional Government president from 1919; Princeton PhD, Korean War leader, resigned in the April Revolution of 1960 and died in Honolulu.
T. K. Wetherell II
T. Kent Wetherell, II, born in 1970, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Florida since 2019.
Ta Mok (តាម៉ុក)
Ta Mok (តាម៉ុក), born Chhit or Ung Choeun around 1925-1926 in Takeo, Cambodia, was a Khmer Rouge Southwest Zone secretary, party number three, and "The Butcher"; he detained Pol Pot in 1997 and died in custody in 2006 without trial.
Taberon Honie
Taberon Dave Honie, Utah death-row inmate convicted in 1999 of the 1998 aggravated murder of Claudia Benn, executed by lethal injection August 8, 2024, Utah's first execution since 2010.
Taft Court
The Taft Court is the US Supreme Court under Chief Justice William Howard Taft from 1921 to 1930, the only Court led by a former president.
Tahir al-Tabari
Tahir al-Tabari (أبو الطيب الطبري) was a leading Shafi'i jurist who served as judge of Baghdad's Karkh quarter and died in 1058 at age 102.
TAKE IT DOWN Act
The TAKE IT DOWN Act is a U.S. federal law that criminalizes nonconsensual intimate images and digital forgeries, while requiring platforms to remove them within 48 hours.
Taliban sanctions regime (United Nations Security Council Resolution 1988)
The Taliban sanctions regime is a UN Security Council regime, created by resolution 1988 in 2011, imposing asset freezes, travel bans, and arms embargoes on Taliban-associated individuals and entities.
Tallinn Manual
Tallinn Manual, also Tallinn Manual 2.0, is a non-binding scholarly restatement of international law as applied to cyber operations, produced by expert groups under NATO's CCDCOE in Tallinn, Estonia; editions 2013 and 2017, with a 3.0 project since 2021.
Tam Paton
Tam Paton, born Thomas Dougal Paton, was a Scottish pop manager of the Bay City Rollers, jailed in 1982 for indecency offenses against teenage boys.
Tamara Samsonova (Тамара Митрофановна Самсонова)
Tamara Samsonova, also known as Tamara Mitrofanovna Samsonova, is a Russian pensioner from Saint Petersburg arrested in July 2015 for killing and dismembering a 79-year-old woman she had cared for.
Tamika R. Montgomery-Reeves
Tamika R. Montgomery-Reeves, born 1981 in Jackson, Mississippi, is a Third Circuit appeals judge since 2023, appointed by Biden after serving on the Delaware Supreme Court.
Tana Lin
Tana Lin, born 1966 in Taipei, Taiwan, is an American federal judge on the US District Court for the Western District of Washington, appointed by President Biden in 2021.
Taney Court
Taney Court (1836–1864): the U.S. Supreme Court under fifth Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, successor to Marshall; known for Dred Scott v. Sandford, Charles River Bridge, Ableman v. Booth, and Ex parte Merryman.
Tanya S. Chutkan
Tanya S. Chutkan, born Tanya Sue Chutkan in 1962 in Kingston, Jamaica, is a US district judge for the District of Columbia, appointed by Barack Obama in 2014.
Tanya W. Pratt
Tanya Walton Pratt is an American jurist serving as a US district judge for the Southern District of Indiana since 2010, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Tara Grinstead murder case
Tara Grinstead murder case: 2005 disappearance of an Ocilla, Georgia teacher; Ryan Duke confessed then recanted, was convicted of concealing her death but acquitted of murder; Bo Dukes got 25 years; 2025 appeal voided remaining charges.
Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California
Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California (17 Cal. 3d 425, 1976) is the California Supreme Court duty-to-protect decision arising from Poddar's 1969 killing of Tatiana Tarasoff, the basis of psychotherapist duty-to-warn law across US states.
Targeted killing
Targeted killing, also called targeted assassination, is the intentional, premeditated use of lethal force by states against selected individuals not in custody, governed by IHL, human rights law, and jus ad bellum, notably practiced by Israel since 2000 and the US after 2001.