Open Legal Data
Open Legal Data
Open German court decisions and laws for everyone: search them on our platform, query them through the REST API, connect your AI assistant via MCP or download the complete datasets.
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or your own agent to German case law and legislation. Our MCP server lets AI assistants search decisions and laws, read full texts, check citations and follow the citation graph, with sources you can verify.
Germany / Deutschland
https://de.openlegaldata.io/mcp
Works without an account. A free account gives you a higher limit.
All court decisions, laws and courts as JSON, with full-text search, filters and citation lookups. Build your own apps, scripts and notebooks on top of it.
Like MCP, the API works without an account; with a free API token the limits are considerably higher.
The complete corpus for analysis, research and machine learning: court decisions, laws and the citation graph on Hugging Face, versioned per dump and with small samples for a quick start.
Court decisions and laws are in the public domain in Germany (§ 5 UrhG); the collection is released under the Open Database License (ODbL).
Open Legal Data is cited in 65 research papers, and its court decisions and laws are part of the training data of open language models such as:
Open Legal Data is run by volunteers in their spare time, and we depend on your support. We are looking for developers, legal experts, researchers, journalists and anyone who wants to make the rule of law more transparent with open data.
Use the data and tell us what you built, add scrapers for more courts, improve data quality, report bugs, work on new features or bring the platform to your country. All code is open source under the MIT license.
OPENLEGALDATA.IO is a free and open platform that makes legal documents and information accessible to the public. Our goal is to make the judiciary more transparent with open data and to help people without legal training understand the justice system. The project is committed to the Open Data Principles and the Free Access to Law Movement. Read more about the project.