Swiss Supreme Court

Create an open search engine by keywords and law articles for the website of the Swiss Supreme Court. Currently, the Swiss Supreme Court website search is powered by Swisslex, which charges fees for efficient jurisprudential research. Searching their website with Google is a free alternative, however this type of search is too generic and broad.

Based on data of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court, Alexander has built an online case history crawler, which can be accessed here: http://46.20.244.65:8090/

Since jurisprudence is supposed to be known by everybody, an efficient search engine is a mandatory tool for democracy and goes along with the open data philosophy. The goals of the LegalHack@OKCon 2013 challenge for this project were to:

1. Enable the use of search by filters
2. Implement search by law articles
3. Implement search by keywords

• The website of the Supreme Court is here: http://www.bger.ch/

• Florian Ducommun, Creative Commons Switzerland
• Alexandre Poltorak, Free IT Foundation

• YaCy Search Engine