Awesome Open Legal Data Switzerland

A manually curated list of open legal data sources, tools, and resources in Switzerland.

Parliamentary Data

Swiss Parliament - Federal Assembly data. Web service available.
OpenParlData.ch - Harmonized API offering data on political actors, legislative proposals, motions, and voting results across 78 parliaments (federal, cantonal, municipal).
Consultation Procedures Dataset (1960-1991) - Metadata on federal consultation procedures (Vernehmlassungen).
Official Bulletins - Full transcripts of Federal Assembly debates from 1891 onward.

Fedlex - Publication platform for Swiss federal law. Includes the Systematic Compilation of Federal Law (SR), Official Compilation (AS), Federal Gazette (BBl), international treaties, and consultation procedures. Multilingual (DE/FR/IT) with SPARQL endpoint.
Historical Federal Law (AS 1948-2018) - Bulk data archive from the Swiss Federal Archives. All Official Compilation files from 1948-2018 as XML with legal classification tables in three languages.
Swiss Federal Gazette (BBl) - Official journal of federal legislation. Publishes drafts, dispatches, and official texts weekly. Archives back to 1849 accessible via Fedlex.
Official Gazettes Portal (Amtsblattportal) - Central platform for official legal notices. Hosts the Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce (SOGC/SHAB) and cantonal gazettes. REST API available.

Fedlex Linked Data - Persistent URIs for each act/article. SPARQL endpoint with documented ontology (JOLux data model). Enables programmatic retrieval of law texts, metadata, versions, and relationships.
TERMDAT - Federal Administration's multilingual terminology database for legal and administrative terms.
International Treaties Database - Switzerland's binding international agreements.

All 26 cantons maintain official, freely accessible law collections:

LexFind - Unified search tool indexing all federal and cantonal law collections.
Aargau (AG)
Appenzell Innerrhoden (AI)
Appenzell Ausserrhoden (AR)
Bern (BE)
Basel-Landschaft (BL)
Basel-Stadt (BS)
Fribourg (FR)
Geneva (GE)
Glarus (GL)
Graubünden (GR)
Jura (JU)
Luzern (LU)
Neuchâtel (NE)
Nidwalden (NW)
Obwalden (OW)
St. Gallen (SG)
Schaffhausen (SH)
Solothurn (SO)
Schwyz (SZ)
Thurgau (TG)
Ticino (TI)
Uri (UR)
Vaud (VD)
Valais (VS)
Zug (ZG)
Zürich (ZH)
Zürich ZHLAW - Private project that aims to improve the digital accessibility of the Canton of Zurich's law collection.
Intlex - Intlex currently contains all intercantonal agreements to which the cantons of Zug, Schaffhausen, St. Gallen, Graubünden, Thurgau, and Valais are currently party.

Federal Supreme Court - Official database with all judgments (mostly anonymized) from 1954 onward. Newer decisions (since ~2000) available in full text (DE/FR/IT). Identifies precedential cases (BGE).
Federal Administrative Court (BVGer) - Decisions of the Bundesverwaltungsgericht.
Federal Criminal Court (BStGer) - All important rulings published online. Selected decisions compiled in official "TPF" report series.
Federal Patent Court - First-instance patent dispute judgments. Searchable archive from 2012 onward.

Entscheidsuche.ch - Non-profit initiative aggregating all publicly available Swiss court decisions (federal and cantonal). [GitHub]
Swiss Federal Supreme Court Dataset (SCD) - Structured dataset of all Federal Supreme Court cases 2007-2024 (127k+ cases). Updated quarterly. Released under CC-BY 4.0.
FSCS Swiss Court Decisions Corpus - Multilingual text corpus of 85k Federal Supreme Court judgments (2000-2020) in DE/FR/IT for NLP research and legal judgment prediction. [GitHub]
Swiss Landmark Decisions Summarization (SLDS) - Cross-lingual dataset with 20k Federal Supreme Court rulings paired with official headnote summaries in DE/FR/IT (60k data points). Released under CC-BY 4.0.
Justement.ch - Commercial. Legal search engine aggregating Swiss court decisions. Free tier for Federal Supreme Court decisions; advanced features require paid subscription.

Onlinekommentar.ch - The first non-profit and Open Access commentary platform in Switzerland. [API]
Repositorium.ch - Specialist subject repository for Swiss law. Central, freely and openly accessible, Switzerland-wide and Switzerland-related, institution-independent and discipline-specific.
Fragmeisterjuristen.ch - Open-access legal AI chatbot by University of St. Gallen (2024). Answers questions on Swiss law with citations to classical legal scholarship.
sui-generis.ch - Open-access law journal and non-profit publisher. Published Switzerland's first open-access law textbook "Introduction to Swiss Law" (2018).
ex/ante - Open-access journal for (young) legal scholars. Publishes peer-reviewed articles, essays, and case comments in multiple languages.
Center for Legal Data Science (UZH) - Data-driven legal research and dataset links.

Open Access content collection University of Basel - List of repositories, collections, e-journals and blogs with open access content.
ejustice.ch - Association connecting cantonal and federal legal authorities, practitioners, service providers, and stakeholders to promote digital innovation in Swiss justice administration.
Open Legal Lab - Free two-day event bringing together legal, tech, design, and data experts to develop innovative solutions for Swiss justice.
Awesome Legal Data - Curated list of open legal data sources, tools, and resources worldwide.