Awesome Legal Data

A curated list of resources dedicated to legal data. The collection contains data sets, corpora, benchmarks, tools and other links related to the legal domain — grouped by region/country. Most resources are openly available.

Legend: (Open) = publicly accessible (may require free key); (Commercial) = paid/subscription; (API) = offers programmatic access/bulk data.

Global & Multi‑Jurisdictional

WorldLII — Federated gateway to free legal information worldwide (legislation, case law, treaties) across national LIIs. (Open)
vLex — Global legal research platform covering 100+ jurisdictions; case law, legislation, journals, and analytics. (Commercial)
Westlaw — Thomson Reuters’ flagship global legal research service (cases, statutes, citators, secondary sources). (Commercial)
LexisNexis / Lexis+ — Global legal content (case law, statutes, Practical Guidance, news). (Commercial)
HeinOnline — Extensive law journal & historical legislative archives; treaties; session laws. (Commercial)
WIPO Lex — Global database of IP laws/treaties and WIPO Lex-Judgments for selected IP case law. (Open)
SSRN (Legal Scholarship Network) — Open repository of legal scholarship/preprints. (Open)
OpenAlex — Scholarly metadata/abstracts (including law journals) with an API; useful for legal literature mining. (Open, API)
Pile-of-Law — 256GB open corpus of English legal/administrative text (opinions, regulations, contracts) for legal NLP. (Open)
MultiLegalPile — Multilingual/multijurisdiction legal text corpus for LLM training (24 languages). (Open)
LexGLUE — Benchmark suite for legal language understanding (multi-task classification across legal domains). (Open)
LEDGAR — Contract clause classification dataset (common clause types from EDGAR filings). (Open)
ContractNLI — Natural-language inference dataset for contracts (entailment/contradiction/neutral). (Open)
CUAD — Contract Understanding Atticus Dataset with expert-annotated clauses across 13 categories. (Open)
Massive Legal Embedding Benchmark (MLEB) - A multidomain open-source benchmark for legal information retrieval. (Open)
The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP) — Open library of climate-aligned contract clauses across multiple jurisdictions (Open)

Europe & European Union

EUR-Lex — Official EU law (treaties, directives, regulations, decisions, OJ). Bulk downloads and API. (Open, API) [HF]
CURIA (CJEU) — Court of Justice & General Court case law (judgments, opinions, orders). (Open)
HUDOC (ECHR) — European Court of Human Rights judgments, decisions, and summaries. (Open)
N-Lex — One-stop portal into each EU Member State’s national legislation databases. (Open)
JRC-Acquis — Multilingual parallel corpus of EU law (Acquis Communautaire) for MT/NLP. (Open)
MultiEURLEX — ~65k EU legal acts in 23 languages annotated with EuroVoc; for multilabel classification/zero-shot. (Open)
OP (Publications Office) Data Portal — EU Open Data incl. cellar, EuroVoc, and legal metadata via APIs. (Open, API)
EU Open Data Portal — Cellar — Linked Data repository for EU legal documents (RDF/SPARQL). (Open, API)
MultiEURLEX - A multi-lingual and multi-label legal document classification dataset for zero-shot cross-lingual transfer
Mining Legal Arguments in Court Decisions - Data and software (European Court of Human Rights (ECHR))

(Tip: The EU N‑Lex portal links to the official law databases of all EU/EEA countries.)

United Kingdom

legislation.gov.uk — Official consolidated UK legislation (Acts, SIs, devolved). API & bulk XML. (Open, API)
Find Case Law (The National Archives) — Free database of court & tribunal judgments (England & Wales). (Open)
BAILII — British & Irish Legal Information Institute (UK/IE case law & legislation). (Open)
ICLR — Official Law Reports and case analysis. (Commercial)
Westlaw UK — UK cases, legislation, journals, and analytics. (Commercial)
Lexis+ UK — UK case law, legislation, commentary (Halsbury’s). (Commercial)

Germany

Gesetze im Internet — Official federal statutes & regulations (BMJ). (Open)
Rechtsprechung im Internet — Official portal indexing German federal high-court decisions. (Open)
NeuRIS (Neues Rechtsinformationssystem) (API)
OpenJur — Community open case-law database (DE & EU decisions). (Open)
Open Legal Data (DE) — Open platform & API for German legal documents/case law. (Open, API) (HF)
juris — Comprehensive German legal database (cases, laws, journals). (Commercial)
A Dataset of German Legal Documents for Named Entity Recognition (Lynx Project)
GerDaLIR: A German Dataset for Legal Information Retrieval (Paper)
gesp: Download all available German court decisions straight from the command line
German Legal Sentences (GLS): Semantic sentence matching and citation recommendation
dejure: German laws and court decisions including citations (no API)

France

Légifrance — Official French legislation (codes, laws) and selected jurisprudence. (Open)
Judilibre (Cour de cassation), Judilibre API — Open data/API for Court of Cassation decisions. (Open, API)
Doctrine.fr — Aggregated French case law with analytics. (Commercial)
Dalloz — Codes, jurisprudence, and commentary (Encyclopédie Dalloz). (Commercial)

Italy

Normattiva — Official consolidated Italian legislation (1861-present). (Open)
Italgiure (Corte di Cassazione) — Supreme Court case law database/portal. (Mixed/Institutional)
De Jure (Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre) — Case law, legislation, commentary. (Commercial)
Pluris (Wolters Kluwer) — Comprehensive Italian legal research platform. (Commercial)
Italia Corpus — Full Italian legislation parsed to Markdown, updated daily. (Open)
D.Lgs 81/08 Testo Unico (Italian Workplace Safety Act) — Structured Markdown + JSON index of the consolidated Italian occupational safety code (13 Titoli, key articles 17/18/19/28/37/41/55/77/96/98/100/177/256...). For legal NLP, chatbots, and AI agents. (Open)
D.Lgs 81/08 Glossary — 218 legal definitions from the Italian workplace-safety code with precise article references. JSON. (Open)
Accordi Stato-Regioni (Workplace Safety Training) — Structured summaries of the Italian State-Regions Agreements on safety training (2011, 2012, 2016, 2025). Markdown + JSON metadata. (Open)

Spain

BOE — Spain’s Official State Gazette; laws & regulations + Open Data. (Open, some API) • Open data: https://www.boe.es/datosabiertos/
CENDOJ — Judicial Documentation Center (Supreme Court & higher courts’ jurisprudence). (Open)
Westlaw Spain — Case law, legislation, commentary. (Commercial)
La Ley (Wolters Kluwer) — Spanish legal research platform. (Commercial)

Netherlands

wetten.nl — Official consolidated Dutch legislation (XML/HTML). (Open)
Rechtspraak (Uitspraken) — Official case law portal (search judgments). (Open)
Kluwer Navigator — Dutch commercial legal research. (Commercial)

Finland

Finlex — Finnish legislation, case law, government bills; machine-readable access. (Open)

Poland

ISAP (Sejm) — Internet System of Legal Acts (Polish legislation). (Open)
Legalis / LEX (Wolters Kluwer) — Commercial Polish legal databases. (Commercial)
mojeprawo.io

Switzerland

Fedlex — Official Swiss federal law portal (RDF/Linked Data available). (Open)
Swiss Federal Supreme Court (BGer/BGerentscheid) — Search engine for decisions. (Open)
Entscheidsuche — Meta-search across Swiss case law sources. (Open)
OpenCaseLaw — 950k+ Swiss court decisions (federal & all 26 cantons) with citation graph, full-text search, and MCP API; bulk Parquet on Hugging Face. (Open, API) (HF)
Swisslex — Commercial Swiss legal research. (Commercial)
Swiss-Judgment-Prediction: A Multilingual Legal Judgment Prediction Benchmark

Austria

RIS — Federal Legal Information System (legislation, case law). (Open)

Czech

Czech Court Decisions Corpus (Paper)

Norway

rettspraksis.no

Turkey

[https://acikveri.yagiz.dev/] - Open Legal Turkey
Avukatistan — Turkish legal research platform with case law, legislation, legal questions, and lawyer profile data. (Open)

North America

United States

GovInfo — U.S. Government Publishing Office—authenticated federal documents (USC, CFR, Federal Register) + bulk data/APIs. (Open, API)
U.S. Code (XML) — Bulk downloads of the United States Code in XML. (Open)
eCFR — Up-to-date Code of Federal Regulations; API via Federal Register. (Open, API)
Federal Register — Daily federal rules/notices; full API. (Open, API)
case.law (Caselaw Access Project) — ~6.7M U.S. opinions (1658–2018); bulk & API. (Open, API)
CourtListener — Millions of opinions + dockets via RECAP; robust API/bulk. (Open, API)
SettleSignal — Verified U.S. class-action & refund settlement catalog (claim deadlines, proof rules, status, official claim links) as open JSON; public fields free with attribution. (Open, API)
Free Law Project.
PACER — Federal court dockets & filings (fees apply). (Commercial/Gov)
Oyez — SCOTUS audio, transcripts, and case summaries (education-oriented). (Open)
Supreme Court Database (SCDB) — Coded metadata for every SCOTUS decision (1791–). (Open)
CaseHOLD (AI2) — Multiple-choice QA over U.S. holdings (legal reasoning benchmark). (Open)
EDGAR — SEC corporate filings (contracts, 10-Ks), bulk + API. (Open, API)
Bloomberg Law — Dockets, analytics, secondary sources. (Commercial)
Fastcase — Case law & statutes with citator; often via bar membership. (Commercial)
Westlaw / Lexis+ • Lexis+ — Comprehensive U.S. primary/secondary law & citators (KeyCite/Shepard’s). (Commercial)
H2O Open Case Book
AI Laws by State — 50-state tracker for U.S. artificial intelligence legislation, sourced from primary state legislature feeds. Covers bill status, effective dates, penalty structures, and topic categorization (deepfakes, hiring, healthcare AI, disclosure, bias audits). (Open)
Advottic Legal Data — US statute of limitations across 51 jurisdictions (50 states + DC) and 9 claim categories (personal injury, contract, fraud, defamation, medical malpractice, wrongful death, debt collection); plus 5 lawyer-reviewed legal templates with tokenized body text. JSON datasets, CC BY 4.0. Live JSON endpoints with permissive CORS. (Open, API)
Lien Deadlines — US mechanics/construction lien deadlines for CA, TX & FL by claimant role (direct contractor / subcontractor), with verbatim statute citations (CA Civil Code §8000 et seq., TX Property Code ch. 53, FL Statutes ch. 713) and conditional rules (e.g. Notice-of-Completion reductions). JSON + CSV, CC BY 4.0. Live reference + calculator. (Open)
US State Name-Change Requirements — US driver's-license / state-ID name-change requirements after marriage across 46 jurisdictions: issuing agency, fee, whether an in-person visit is required, the legal deadline (or a note where none is published), the official state source URL, and last-verified date. Each row links to its official government source. CSV + JSON, CC BY 4.0. Live reference. (Open)

Canada

CanLII — Pan-Canadian case law & legislation; API for developers (key required). (Open, API)
Justice Laws (Canada) — Official consolidated federal statutes & regulations. (Open)
Supreme Court of Canada Judgments — Full-text decisions (LexUM). (Open)
WestlawNext Canada / Lexis Advance Quicklaw — Commercial Canadian legal research. (Commercial)
[A2AJ] (https://a2aj.ca/) - Open Legal Canadian Database

Mexico

DOF (Diario Oficial de la Federación) — Official Gazette of the Federation (laws/decrees, searchable). (Open)
SCJN — Sistema de Jurisprudencia (IUS) — Supreme Court of Justice jurisprudence search. (Open)
PJF (Federal Judiciary) — Case law/jurisprudence and statistics portals. (Open)

Asia

India

India Code — Central repository of Central/State Acts and subordinate legislation. (Open)
Supreme Court of India — Judgments — Official search/portal for SC judgments. (Open)
eCourts Services / NJDG • NJDG — Case status & national judicial data grid (stats/open data). (Open)
Indian Kanoon — Aggregated judgments (SC/HC/tribunals) + statutes; full-text search. (Open)
SCC Online — Leading commercial database (EBC): SC/HC/tribunals + commentary. (Commercial)
Manupatra — Comprehensive commercial Indian legal research. (Commercial)
OpenNyAI Datasets — Indian legal NLP datasets (judgment summarization, QA, translation). (Open)
ILDC (Indian Legal Documents Corpus) — Public datasets for Indian judgment analysis/summarization (various releases). (Open)
eCourtsIndia.com — Complete Case details, Orders & judgments (SC/HC/District Courts/tribunals), Research on Lawyers & litigants; full-text search. (Open)

China

National Laws & Regulations Database (国家法律法规数据库) — Official centralized repository of PRC laws/regulations. (Open)
China Judgments Online (裁判文书网 / Wenshu) — Supreme People’s Court open repository of court judgments. (Open)
PKULaw (北大法宝) • LawInfoChina — Comprehensive Chinese legal database; English via LawInfoChina. (Commercial)
OpenLaw (开放法学) — Open legal case platform & analytics (coverage varies). (Open/Mixed)
CAIL2018 — Large-scale Chinese legal judgment datasets (charges, articles, term prediction). (Open)
LeCaRD — Chinese Legal Case Retrieval Dataset for precedent search benchmarks. (Open)
JEC-QA — Judicial Examination Challenge QA dataset (multi-choice legal questions). (Open)

Japan

e-Gov Law Search (e-Gov法令検索) — Official portal for Japanese laws/regulations; API (XML). (Open, API)
Japanese Law Translation — MOJ database of unofficial English translations of key laws. (Open)
Supreme Court of Japan — Judgments — Search Supreme Court decisions (some English summaries). (Open)
WIPO Lex-Judgments (Japan IP) — Selected Japanese IP judgments in English. (Open)
COLIEE — Legal Information Extraction & Entailment shared task (JP Civil Code QA, case retrieval). (Open)
Westlaw Japan / LexisNexis Japan — Commercial JP legal research suites. (Commercial)
Competition on Legal Information Extraction/Entailment (COLIEE 2020)

South Korea

[https://open.law.go.kr/LSO/openApi/guideList.do] - Open Legal Data

Russia

[https://github.com/irlcode/RusLawOD] - Open Legal Data
[IPBD.ru] - Open Legal Data

Brazil

LexML Brasil — Federated search over Brazilian legislation & legal docs; open standards. (Open)
Diário Oficial da União (DOU) — Federal Official Gazette (laws, decrees). (Open)
STF — Supremo Tribunal Federal — Supreme Court decisions/jurisprudence portal. (Open)
STJ — Superior Tribunal de Justiça — Decisions search (SCON). (Open)
CNJ — Dados Abertos — National Council of Justice open judicial data & indicators. (Open)
Jusbrasil — Massive legal search (cases, legislation, gazettes) + community; premium features. (Open/Commercial)
vLex Brasil — Commercial platform for Brazilian law with analytics. (Commercial)