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This page lists some of the best pictures related to WikiProject Law. The images are also listed in the category Category:Law Portal selected pictures. The entries are randomly chosen for display on the Law Portal.

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Photograph taken by the US Government and modified by Beao

The defendants sitting in the dock during the Nuremberg Trials.

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Photograph taken by Steve Petteway for the US Government

John Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States since 2005

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Image by unknown photographer; uploaded by Cliniic

Jawaharlal Nehru at the Allahabad High Court

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Photograph taken by dbking and uploaded by Gary Dee

Chief Justice John Marshall (1755 – 1835), an American statesman and jurist who greatly influenced constitutional law

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Photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress

The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico is the highest court of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, having the ultimate judicial authority within Puerto Rico to interpret and decide questions of local commonwealth law. It is head of the Judicial Branch of the Government of Puerto Rico, the other branches being the executive branch and the legislative branch. The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico holds its sessions in the city of San Juan.

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Credit: A manuscript held at the British Library

A copy of the Magna Carta of 1215, which was the first document forced onto an English King by a group of his subjects (the barons) in an attempt to limit his powers by law and protect their privileges. Lord Denning described it as "the greatest constitutional document of all times – the foundation of the freedom of the individual against the arbitrary authority of the despot".

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Credit: Hans Holbein the Younger

Thomas More was a leading counsellor to Henry VIII and served as Lord Chancellor from 1529 to 1532. He was imprisoned and beheaded in 1535 after he had fallen out of favour with the king over his refusal to sign the Act of Supremacy 1534.

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