The Global Law Database

Read any provision as it stood on any date, see what changed and why, and follow how laws cite and amend each other across 13 countries and the EU.

laws and regulations: 141,078
court judgments: 919,840
bills before Congress: 19,835
sanctions designations in force: 32,771

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Last updated today

Official publishers only. Text is fetched as published, kept with its licence, and never edited.

UKlegislation.gov.uk
Updated today · 40,677 records · OGL v3.0
EUEUR-Lex / Cellar
Updated today · 36,745 records · EU reuse (2011/833/EU)
AUFederal Register of Legislation (Office of Parliamentary Counsel)
Updated today · 28,872 records · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
CAConsolidated Canadian Autonomous Sanctions List (Global Affairs Canada)
Updated today · 5,785 records · Open Government Licence – Canada
UNUN Security Council Consolidated List
Updated today · 1,007 records · United Nations public information
UKUK Sanctions List
Updated today · 6,429 records · OGL v3.0
ATRechtsinformationssystem des Bundes (Bundesrecht konsolidiert)
Updated today · 10,632 records · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (RIS open data)
FIFinlex open data (ajantasainen lainsäädäntö)
Updated today · 8,623 records · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (Finlex open data)
ESBoletín Oficial del Estado (legislación consolidada)
Updated today · 6,841 records · BOE reuse (Ley 37/2007)
NLwetten.overheid.nl (Basiswettenbestand)
Updated today · 22,324 records · Public domain (Auteurswet art. 11)
CHFedlex (Systematische Rechtssammlung)
Updated today · 4,925 records · Fedlex open government data (free use, source to be cited)
USOFAC Sanctions Lists
Updated yesterday · 19,563 records · Public domain
CAJustice Laws Website (Department of Justice Canada)
Updated yesterday · 5,837 records · Reproduction of Federal Law Order
DERechtsinformationsportal des Bundes (NeuRIS, test phase)
Updated yesterday · 5,517 records · Official works (§ 5 UrhG)
USeCFR
Updated yesterday · 8,312 records · Public domain
NOLovdata public data (gjeldende lover)
Updated 2 days ago · 4,178 records · Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD) 2.0
IELaw Reform Commission Revised Acts
Updated 2 days ago · 23 records · Oireachtas (Open Data) PSI Licence; annotations CC BY 4.0
FRLégifrance, base LEGI (DILA)
Updated 3 days ago · 10 records · Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab)
USUS Code (Office of the Law Revision Counsel)
Updated 3 days ago · 2,905 records · Public domain
USGovInfo bulk data (bill status and bill text)
Updated 3 days ago · 19,835 records · Public domain
USFederal Register
Updated 3 days ago · 1,913 records · Public domain

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USCalifornia Legislative Information (pubinfo)
USCaselaw Access Project (Harvard Law School Library)
USCourtListener (Free Law Project)
EUEU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List
UKFind Case Law (The National Archives)· licence pending

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claude mcp add --transport http globallawdb https://mcp.law.genieai.co/mcp

law_resolvelaw_searchlaw_outlinelaw_readlaw_difflaw_in_forcelaw_graphlaw_timelinelaw_sanctionslaw_changeslaw_directorylaw_definelaw_facts

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curl -X POST https://api.law.genieai.co/v1/read \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -H 'accept: text/markdown' \
  -d '{"ids":["law://eu/reg/2016/679/art_6__para_1__pnt_f"]}'

OpenAPI spec · batch reads with ETags return nothing for unchanged provisions.

Bulk data

Every work, text version and link as gzipped NDJSON: download the latest dump.

Stable IDs

Any provision, at any date:

law://eu/reg/2016/679/art_6__para_1__pnt_f@2024-01-01

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For agents and apps

The same law, as compact text built for AI agents and software. Every answer names its date, territory and source.

AI agents (MCP)

Claude Code, Claude Desktop or any MCP client:

claude mcp add --transport http globallawdb https://mcp.law.genieai.co/mcp

law_resolvelaw_searchlaw_outlinelaw_readlaw_difflaw_in_forcelaw_graphlaw_timelinelaw_sanctionslaw_changeslaw_directorylaw_definelaw_facts

Apps (REST API)

curl -X POST https://api.law.genieai.co/v1/read \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -H 'accept: text/markdown' \
  -d '{"ids":["law://eu/reg/2016/679/art_6__para_1__pnt_f"]}'

OpenAPI spec · batch reads with ETags return nothing for unchanged provisions.

Bulk data

Every work, text version and link as gzipped NDJSON: download the latest dump.

Stable IDs

Any provision, at any date:

law://eu/reg/2016/679/art_6__para_1__pnt_f@2024-01-01

API keys

Reading is free without a key. A key unlocks batch reads and higher limits for production use.

Get an API key

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