legal education and practice

Electioneering refers to efforts by political groups or individuals to persuade voters to support or oppose specific candidates, political parties, or ballot issues in an upcoming 

Elections are processes through which eligible citizens vote on candidates for public office or on ballot issues. Once votes are cast, they are counted to determine an official outcome.

Emergency powers refer to the legal authority granted to executive officials to act beyond normal statutory or procedural limits during crises that cannot be managed through ordinary processes.

• executive powers
• checks and balances
• constitutional law

Emotional distress refers to mental suffering as an emotional response to an experience that arises from the effect or memory of a particular event, occurrence, pattern of events or condition. Emotional distress can usually be discerned from its symptoms (ex. Anxiety, depression, loss of ability to perform tasks, or physical illness).

Empirical legal studies, sometimes abbreviated as ELS, refers to scholarly research undertaken by law professors using empirical social science research methods, but ELS research focuses more on purely legal issues.

• law school
• legal scholarship. empirical

En banc is French for "on the bench." The term refers to a special procedure where all judges of a particular court hear a case. When the court believes that the matters are especially complex or important, the en banc procedure will be used. See e.g. Calderon v. Thompson, 524 US 965 (1998).

Enabling clauses are clauses or provisions in a statute or constitution that gives government officials the authority to put the law into effect and to enforce it.

• constitutional law

An enemy combatant is a person who engages in hostilities against the United States during an armed conflict, typically on behalf of an opposing government or non-state actor.