CRIMINAL LAW RESEARCH GROUP

Welcome to the CLRG Website

The Criminal Law Research Group (CLRG) does criminal-justice related drafting and policy work for governments, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations. The expertise and experience of its Director, Paul H. Robinson, the Colin S. Diver Professor of Law, and the talent and energy of the exceptional students who are selected to membership in the Group, allow the CLRG to produce authoritative and functional solutions to criminal-justice related policy problems world-wide. While its special expertise is in drafting modern criminal codes and sentencing guidelines appropriate for a country or state, it also has done work in producing rules of criminal procedure and prosecution guidelines, as well as policy advice on a wide-variety of criminal justice issues.

Recent CLRG projects include:

1. A study of offense grading in Pennsylvania commissioned by the Pennsylvania Legislature’s Senate Judiciary Committee and Assembly Judiciary Committee [more information]
2. A study of offense grading in New Jersey [more information]
3. Criminal law drafting for the Irish Criminal Law Codification Advisory Committee [more information]
4. Drafting a new criminal code based upon the principles of Shari’a (Islamic Law), for the Republic of the Maldives, commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) [more information]
5. Advice on criminal law codification for the State of Kansas [more information]
6. Criminal justice policy work for the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency [more information]

To find out more about the history of the Criminal Law Research Group, click here.

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