DIZON.LAW

Project docket · two live public archives

Built by Karlo Dizon

Free legal research for Guam and the Philippines.

Territorial Review and KARTILYA.PH turn court decisions and statutes into structured, searchable collections. Both are free to use, and both check AI-generated answers against the underlying legal sources.

01 · Live · United States territories

Territorial Review

Founder and Editor-in-Chief

The appellate courts of the five inhabited U.S. territories make law for nearly four million people, but their decisions remain fragmented and difficult to research. Territorial Review is building a free, unified archive of those courts’ opinions and the codes they apply.

The live first volume covers Guam: every Supreme Court opinion from 1996 to the present and all 22 titles of the Guam Code. Search works by keyword and meaning. Each result remains connected to the official source, and a citation firewall checks jurisdiction, existence, and source support before an authority appears as verified.

Opinions
792
Code
22 titles
First volume
Guam
Open Territorial Review

02 · Live · Philippines

KARTILYA.PH

Creator and builder

A kartilya is a primer. KARTILYA.PH is a free, AI-native archive designed to make Philippine law usable by lawyers, students, public servants, and citizens, with no account and no paywall.

The Constitution, national codes, Republic Acts, and Supreme Court decisions live in one structured corpus. A reader can ask a question in ordinary language, receive an answer drawn only from retrieved authority, and follow every proposition back to the exact statute or case.

Provisions
8,296
Opinions
23,675
Access
Free
Open KARTILYA.PH

§ 03 Shared method

Each answer is drawn from identified legal sources and checked before it appears.

Official sourcesStructured corpusMeaning-based retrievalGrounded answerSource verification

Both projects begin by collecting and structuring statutes and court decisions from public sources. When a user asks a question, the AI system drafts an answer only from the retrieved legal text. A separate verification step checks that every citation exists and supports the statement attached to it. Unsupported material is marked for the reader.

§ 04 The builder

Karlo Dizon

The projects join legal practice, editorial method, and software engineering. They grew from work inside courts and public defense, where access to reliable authority is not an abstraction and a plausible but false citation carries real consequences.