T·R

Established 2026 · Volume I · No. 1 · Guam

Territorial Review

A free, searchable archive of the appellate law of the United States territories. Beginning with the Supreme Court of Guam.

792 opinions · Supreme Court of Guam · 1996–present

§ Search

Keyword and meaning-based search across every Supreme Court of Guam opinion.

§ The archive

The appellate courts of the five inhabited U.S. territories decide real cases for nearly four million people — yet their opinions are among the hardest in American law to find. They are public record in name only: split across incompatible court websites, never unified, rarely indexed, and for Puerto Rico often locked behind paid, Spanish-language platforms.

Territorial Review assembles them into one clean, complete corpus and makes it searchable by keyword and by meaning. We begin with the Supreme Court of Guam — every opinion from 1996 to the present, each linking back to the official judiciary — and the remaining jurisdictions follow.

§ Jurisdictions

GuamAvailableSupreme Court of Guam · 792 opinions · 1996–present
Puerto RicoIn preparationSupreme Court of Puerto Rico · Largest corpus · partly paywalled today
U.S. Virgin IslandsIn preparationSupreme Court of the Virgin Islands · Court established 2007
Northern Mariana IslandsIn preparationSupreme Court of the CNMI
American SamoaIn preparationHigh Court of American Samoa · Unincorporated · unique status

§ Who it serves

Solo and small-firm practitioners in the territories priced out of commercial research tools; pro se litigants and legal-aid organizations; and the scholars, clerks, and students working on insular-law questions. The bar in each jurisdiction is small, so the value is not scale — it is depth in a neglected niche, where the access-to-justice case is genuine.

How this project came to be — and where it is going.Read about the project →