The development's ladder: (i) the pre-institutional era — the shastric commentaries and the Muluki Ain's own texts (the pandit-and-pandit-expounder tradition — Nepali Legal System, Semester 4); (ii) the institutional birth — the Nepal Law Campus (1950s) and the university law programmes' theses culture; the Nepal Law Review and the journals' line; (iii) the judicialscholarship — the NKP (Nepal Kanoon Patrika): the Supreme Court's own reporter (the research's primary mine), with the Court's decisions database's digital era; (iv) the professional-and-civil-society research — the Nepal Bar Association's studies; the specialised centres (CeLRRd's criminal-justice analysis; FWLD's law-and-society studies of the 1990s–2000s that fed the gender-reform litigation — the marital-rape and custody lines you have read in Family Law and
Criminology); (v) the institutionalisation — the National Judicial Academy (the judges' research- and-training home), the Nepal Law Commission (the law-reform research), the university faculties' expansion (the LL.M./Ph.D. cultures, the law schools' clinics); and (vi) the digital turn — the online decision databases, the e-reporter era, and the current AI questions (Unit 6.6). The honest assessment: the infrastructure is young — the funding, the data-access and the full-text archives remain the constraint; the doctrinal dominates, the empirical is rising.