Law and government

The Impact of CRL

Stories illustrating CRL’s impact on research, teaching, collection building and preservation.

Documenting the Legal Record of Precarious Regimes

CRL’s Official Gazettes and Civil Society Documentation website offers published versions of new laws, legislative debates, and court decisions from at-risk regimes.

Excavating Attitudes on Opium Prohibition from Colonial Records

British Colonial Office records held by CRL reveal the dynamics of a robust opium trade in Southeast Asia in the late 19th and early 20th century.

LAMP Supports Digitizing of Historic Puerto Rican Court Documents

Nearly 5,000 historical Puerto Rican court documents dating from 1844 to 1900 are now available online.