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47 Congressional Research Service reports and publications

Colombia’s Antidrug Efforts and the “Failed Demonstrably” Designation
2025-09-24 · Posts · IN12610 · HTML available · PDF available
Illicit Fentanyl and Mexico’s Role
2025-08-26 · Resources · IF10400 · HTML available · PDF available
RICO: A Sketch
2025-08-22 · Reports · 96-950 · HTML available · PDF available
Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Sanctions: The Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act
2025-08-07 · Resources · IF10576 · HTML available · PDF available
Designating Cartels and Other Criminal Organizations as Foreign Terrorists: Recent Developments
2025-03-10 · Posts · IN11205 · HTML available · PDF available
Termination of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center
2024-12-26 · Posts · IN12475 · HTML available · PDF available
The Captures Clause (Part 2): Jurisprudence and U.S. Practice
2024-12-20 · Posts · LSB11254 · HTML available · PDF available
The Captures Clause (Part 1): Overview, Historical Context, and Drafting History
2024-12-20 · Posts · LSB11253 · HTML available · PDF available
Section 307 and Imports Produced by Forced Labor
2024-12-10 · Resources · IF11360 · HTML available · PDF available
Terrorist Financing: Hamas and Cryptocurrency Fundraising
2024-12-09 · Resources · IF12537 · HTML available · PDF available
The Evolving Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime
2024-11-27 · Resources · IF12829 · HTML available · PDF available
Stealing Trade Secrets and Economic Espionage: An Overview of the Economic Espionage Act
2024-10-29 · Reports · R42681 · HTML available · PDF available
Hamas: Background, Current Status, and U.S. Policy
2024-10-23 · Resources · IF12549 · HTML available · PDF available
Iran-Supported Groups in the Middle East and U.S. Policy
2024-09-26 · Resources · IF12587 · HTML available · PDF available
Assessing Recent U.S. Airstrikes in the Middle East Under the War Powers Framework
2024-08-15 · Posts · LSB11157 · HTML available · PDF available
Transnational Crime Issues: INTERPOL
2024-08-02 · Resources · IF10766 · HTML available · PDF available
Suspending the Tax-Exempt Status of Terrorist and Terrorist Supporting Organizations: H.R. 6408 in Context
2024-06-07 · Posts · LSB11176 · HTML available · PDF available
Sanctions in the FY2024 Emergency Supplemental Appropriation, P.L. 118-50
2024-05-29 · Resources · IF12676 · HTML available · PDF available
China Primer: Illicit Fentanyl and China’s Role
2024-02-20 · Resources · IF10890 · HTML available · PDF available
Foreign Country Actions to Place the Israel-Hamas Conflict Before International Courts
2024-01-26 · Posts · IN12299 · HTML available · PDF available
The First Prosecution Under the War Crimes Act: Overview and International Legal Context
2023-12-22 · Posts · LSB11091 · HTML available · PDF available
Terrorist and Other Militant Groups in Pakistan
2023-12-01 · Resources · IF11934 · HTML available · PDF available
Federal Law Enforcement Efforts to Counter Human Smuggling and Human Trafficking
2023-11-21 · Resources · IF12539 · HTML available · PDF available
Human Trafficking and U.S. Foreign Policy: An Introduction
2023-11-16 · Resources · IF10587 · HTML available · PDF available
State Department Country Reports on Terrorism: 2001–2021
2023-07-21 · Resources · IF10710 · HTML available · PDF available
The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act: Prosecuting Foreign States After the Supreme Court’s Decision in Halkbank
2023-05-18 · Posts · LSB10967 · HTML available · PDF available
Remittances: Background and Issues for the 118th Congress
2023-05-10 · Reports · R43217 · HTML available · PDF available
Extraterritorial Application of American Criminal Law
2023-03-21 · Reports · 94-166 · HTML available · PDF available
The Opioid Crisis in the United States: A Brief History
2022-11-30 · Resources · IF12260 · HTML available · PDF available
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN): Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 Implementation and Beyond
2022-09-27 · Reports · R47255 · HTML available · PDF available
The Alien Tort Statute: A Primer
2022-01-11 · Reports · R44947 · HTML available · PDF available
Money Laundering in the U.S. Real Estate Sector
2022-01-04 · Resources · IF11967 · HTML available · PDF available
Migrant Smuggling: Background and Selected Issues
2021-12-20 · Resources · IF12003 · HTML available · PDF available
The Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act: Scope, Implementation, and Considerations for Congress
2021-12-03 · Reports · R46981 · HTML available · PDF available
Section 307 and U.S. Imports of Products of Forced Labor: Overview and Issues for Congress
2021-05-21 · Reports · R46631 · HTML available · PDF available
Wildlife Trade, COVID-19, and Other Zoonotic Diseases
2021-02-19 · Resources · IF11494 · HTML available · PDF available
Immigration Relief for Victims of Trafficking
2020-10-28 · Reports · R46584 · HTML available
Extradition of U.S. Citizens
2019-06-13 · Posts · LSB10308 · HTML available · PDF available
Law Enforcement Access to Overseas Data Under the CLOUD Act
2018-05-02 · Posts · LSB10125 · HTML available
Can Corporations be Held Liable under the Alien Tort Statute?
2018-04-24 · Posts · LSB10025 · HTML available
It Belongs in a Museum: Sovereign Immunity Shields Iranian Antiquities Even When It Does Not Protect Iran
2018-03-22 · Posts · LSB10104 · HTML available
Material Support for Terrorism Is Not Always an “Act of International Terrorism,” Second Circuit Holds
2018-03-05 · Posts · LSB10089 · HTML available
Russians Indicted for Online Election Trolling
2018-02-21 · Posts · LSB10081 · HTML available
Digital Currencies: Sanctions Evasion Risks
2018-02-08 · Resources · IF10825 · HTML available
Trade-Based Money Laundering: Overview and Policy Issues
2016-06-22 · Reports · R44541 · HTML available · PDF available
National Security Letters in Foreign Intelligence Investigations: Legal Background
2015-07-30 · Reports · RL33320 · HTML available
Bond v. United States: Validity and Construction of the Federal Chemical Weapons Statute
2014-06-20 · Reports · R42968 · HTML available