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Édouard Descamps
Édouard Descamps (1847–1933) was a Belgian jurist and senator who helped found the Permanent Court of Arbitration and chaired the committee drafting the PCIJ Statute.
Eduardo Arellano Félix
Eduardo Arellano Félix, nicknamed El Doctor, is a Mexican physician and former chief financial officer of the Arellano Felix Organization (Tijuana Cartel), captured in Tijuana in 2008, extradited to the United States in 2012, sentenced to 15 years, and deported to Mexico in 2021.
Edward Brooke
Edward William Brooke III (1919-2015), Massachusetts Republican senator 1967-1979, first African American elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote and first Black state attorney general; Fair Housing Act co-sponsor.
Edward Carson
Edward Carson (1854–1935), Baron Carson of Duncairn, Dublin-born barrister and Irish unionist leader; Wilde's 1895 examiner, UVF founder, First Lord of the Admiralty 1916–17, and law lord.
Edward Coke
Edward Coke (1552–1634), English jurist, Chief Justice of Common Pleas and King's Bench, attorney general under Elizabeth I; author of the Reports and Institutes, known for Bonham's Case and Magna Carta revival.
Edward Douglass White
Edward Douglass White (1845-1921), Louisiana Democrat, Confederate veteran, and U.S. senator, was the first Associate Justice elevated to Chief Justice, serving 1894-1921; known for the rule of reason, Guinn v. United States, and the Insular Cases.
Edward E. Carnes
Edward E. Carnes, born 1950 in Albertville, Alabama, is a senior judge of the Eleventh Circuit who served as its chief judge from 2013 to 2020.
Edward Edwards (serial killer)
Edward Wayne Edwards (1933–2011), born Charles Wayne Murray, was an American serial killer who confessed to five murders in Ohio and Wisconsin (1977–1996) after once appearing on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list; unproven theories link him to the Zodiac, JonBenét Ramsey, and Teresa Halbach cases.
Edward F. Cox
Edward F. Cox (Edward Finch Cox), American corporate lawyer and Chairman of the New York Republican Party 2009-2019; son-in-law of Richard Nixon, married Patricia Nixon in 1971; Princeton 1968, Harvard Law 1972, Reagan's Synthetic Fuels Corporation general counsel. Not the Texas attorney Ed Cox.
Edward F. Shea
Edward F. Shea (born 1942) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Washington since 2012.
Edward H. Levi
Edward H. Levi (1911-2000), American legal scholar, University of Chicago Law School dean, first provost and president, and 71st U.S. Attorney General (1975-1977) under Gerald Ford, known for restoring Justice Department integrity after Watergate and for An Introduction to Legal Reasoning.
Edward J. Davila
Edward John Davila is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Northern District of California, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2011.
Edward J. Lodge
Edward J. Lodge, born in 1933, is a senior United States district judge for the District of Idaho, appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1989.
Edward L. Artau
Edward L. Artau (born 1964) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Florida since 2025, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Edward L. Filippine
Edward Louis Filippine (born 1930) is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri since 1995.
Edward L. Masry
Edward L. Masry (1932-2005), California attorney and Thousand Oaks councilman whose firm, with legal assistant Erin Brockovich, won a $333 million groundwater contamination settlement from PG&E, later portrayed by Albert Finney in the 2000 film Erin Brockovich.
Edward M. Chen
Edward Milton Chen (born 1953) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Northern District of California since 2022.
Edward M. Kennedy Jr.
Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy Jr. (born 1961) is an American health care attorney, disability rights advocate, AAPD board chair, and former Connecticut State Senator (12th District, 2015-2019), eldest son of Senator Ted Kennedy; distinct from Massachusetts Senator Edward J. Kennedy of Lowell.
Edward Manibusan
Edward Manibusan is an American politician who has served as Attorney General of the Northern Mariana Islands since 2015, the Commonwealth's first elected Attorney General.
Edward Oxford
Edward Oxford (1822–1900) fired two pistols at Queen Victoria on Constitution Hill, 10 June 1840; tried for high treason, acquitted as insane, detained at Bedlam, later emigrated to Australia.
Edward Paisnel
Edward John Louis Paisnel (1925–1994), the Beast of Jersey, was a Jersey building contractor and masked sex offender who attacked women and children in night raids; convicted of 13 counts in 1971 and sentenced to 30 years.
Edward R. Korman
Edward R. Korman, born 1942, is a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of New York, appointed by President Reagan in 1985.
Edward S. Kiel
Edward S. Kiel, born in 1965 in Daegu, South Korea, is New Jersey's first Korean American United States district judge, confirmed in 2024 after serving as a magistrate judge.
Edwards v Canada (AG)
Edwards v Canada (AG), the Persons Case, [1930] AC 124: 1929 Privy Council decision holding women are "qualified persons" under BNA Act s. 24, eligible for the Canadian Senate, reversing the Supreme Court of Canada and establishing the living tree doctrine.
Edwin B. Crocker
Edwin Bryant Crocker (1818–1875), California Supreme Court associate justice 1863–64, abolitionist lawyer in Norris v. Crocker (1851), chief counsel of the Central Pacific Railroad, and founder of the Crocker Art Museum collection in Sacramento.
Edwin Meese
Edwin Meese III (born 1931), 75th U.S. Attorney General under Ronald Reagan (1985–1988) and former White House counselor; launched the originalism movement with his 1985 ABA speech, disclosed the Iran-contra diversion in November 1986, and was investigated three times by independent counsels without prosecution.
Effects and aftermath of rape
Effects and aftermath of rape: immediate medical care (STI prophylaxis, emergency contraception within 120 hours, hepatitis B and HPV vaccination), rape trauma syndrome and PTSD, long-term health effects, and secondary victimization in legal systems.
Eggshell skull
Eggshell skull rule, also called the thin skull or talem qualem rule: a common law tort doctrine making a defendant liable for the full extent of a plaintiff's injury, even when a pre-existing vulnerability made the harm unexpectedly severe.
Egils Levits
Egils Levits, Latvian lawyer, political scientist and President of Latvia 2019–2023; former ECHR judge 1995–2004, first Latvian judge at the EU Court of Justice, and author of the 2014 Constitutional Preamble.
Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty
Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty, also called Treaty of Kadesh or Eternal Treaty: parity agreement of Ramesses II and Hattusili III, year 21 of Ramesses (c. 1259 BCE), with nonaggression, alliance, and extradition clauses, surviving at Karnak, the Ramesseum, and Hattusa.