Open Legal Data sources
We will soon host an event on these topics, and would very much appreciate contributions to this page. If you know a source of legal/law data that is open (or should be!), please add it here and/or notify us on the forum.
Swiss Law
- ThinkData.ch (use cases for data protection matters)
- MyRight.ch (online legal consultation
- Open Documents (Oeffentlichkeitsgesetz.ch)
Reference
- Jurispedia (illustrates the difficulty of such projects)
Legal Templates
Document analysis
- Legal Genome (Docracy)
APIs
For law firm management:
For law firm marketing:
Crossposting legal articles:
Metadata
For legal information:
For adding reference material to Statutes:
Thesaurusses
- TDS3 (Multilingual legal thesaurus)
Legal automation theory:
Example visualizations
- The Development of Structure in the Citation Network of the United States Supreme Court (computationallegalstudies)
- Visualize the US Congressional Legislation (manybills.us)
Example applications
- Legal designs at the Direct Democracy Navigator
- TOS;DR know what “I agree” means (also see 'how it works')
- 500px lists out its terms in legalese on the left, plain text on the right, similarly stripe, aviary
- iubenda allows you to generate readable and updated privacy policies
- Find free content, protect your work in the public domain
- Browse the New York Senate
- Legal aspects of science repositories
- The German laws in GitHub (Bundesgit)
- Lawcat, an app based on Dutch laws in Github