Stories, watch the law move
real histories from the Luxembourg corpus and the ten EU acts, computed live
Point-in-time retrieval sounds abstract until you watch a law move. These are real histories held by Lex, every number below is computed from the signed indexes as this page renders, and every link lands on the evidence.
The law that could not sit still
Luxembourg's Covid-19 measures act. Rules on gatherings, masks and closures were rewritten again and again, which is exactly when "what did the rule say that week?" stops being an academic question.
32 versions 2020-07-25 → 2024-07-01 amended every 21 days (median) shortest-lived version: 3 days
every version · the first text · what changed by 2021-07-16 · the text today
Ask the assistant: How did the Luxembourg Covid-19 law change between July 2020 and July 2021?
A constitution, revised in public
The Luxembourg constitution, from the early twentieth century to the 2023 reform, the same document, re-consolidated after every revision, each state still retrievable.
37 versions 1919-05-20 → 2023-07-01 amended every 313 days (median) shortest-lived version: 9 days
every version · the first text · what changed by 1999-06-12 · the text today
Ask the assistant: What changed in the Luxembourg constitution in 2023?
Banking rules in waves
The Capital Requirements Regulation, the rulebook a Luxembourg bank must apply. Its own Article 92 (the capital ratios) has more than one lifetime.
22 versions 2013-06-28 → 2026-06-26 amended every 182 days (median) shortest-lived version: 62 days
every version · the first text · what changed by 2021-09-30 · the text today
Ask the assistant: How has Article 92 of the CRR changed over its life?
The criminal code is a moving target
Luxembourg's penal code has been re-consolidated repeatedly in the last decade. Point-in-time matters most where the question is what was punishable on the day of the act.
36 versions 2016-07-10 → 2025-12-19 amended every 73 days (median) shortest-lived version: 1 day
every version · the first text · what changed by 2022-04-12 · the text today
Ask the assistant: Que disait le Code pénal luxembourgeois au 1er janvier 2020 ?
Which laws moved most during the pandemic
March 2020, July 2021, ranked by how many new versions each law produced. Computed live, and available to your own code as changes_in_period(order="by_churn").