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GlobalLaw is an open-source legal knowledge base project dedicated to collecting, organizing, and maintaining legal texts from countries worldwide. Through establishing unified legal text formats and version control systems, we aim to provide reliable data support for legal research, AI training, and legal practice.
- Establish a unified repository for global legal texts
- Track legal revision history across countries
- Provide access to the latest versions of legal texts
- S 73E7 upport standardization of multilingual legal texts
- Promote open sharing of legal knowledge
- Provide high-quality training data for legal AI development
GlobalLaw/
├── countries/ # Legal documents by country
│ ├── china/ # Chinese laws
│ │ ├── constitution/ # Constitution
│ │ ├── civil_law/ # Civil law
│ │ └── criminal_law/ # Criminal law
│ ├── usa/ # US laws
│ └── ...
├── templates/ # Legal text templates
│ ├── markdown/ # Markdown format templates
│ └── json/ # JSON format templates
└── docs/ # Project documentation
└── guides/ # Documentation in multiple languages
├── en/ # English
├── zh/ # Chinese
├── ja/ # Japanese
├── fr/ # French
├── ko/ # Korean
├── es/ # Spanish
└── de/ # German
To maintain consistency, we use the following formats for storing legal texts:
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Markdown Format:
- Standard Markdown syntax
- Metadata (title, enactment date, effective date, etc.)
- Multi-language version support
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JSON Format:
- Structured legal text data
- Version information and revision history
- Machine processing and analysis support
Each legal document includes:
- Complete revision history
- Change descriptions for each version
- Effective and expiration dates
- Related legal references
We welcome contributions from legal professionals, researchers, and enthusiasts worldwide:
- Fork this repository
- Create a new branch
- Add or update legal texts following the format guide
- Submit a Pull Request
- Ensure accuracy of legal texts
- Follow unified format specifications
- Provide reliable source citations
- Maintain objective and neutral stance
- Comply with relevant copyright regulations
- Legal Transparency: Promote open access to legal texts
- AI Development: Provide high-quality training data for legal AI
- Legal Research: Support cross-national and cross-cultural legal comparative studies
- Knowledge Sharing: Facilitate global legal knowledge dissemination and exchange
- Project Homepage: [GitHub Repository]
- Issue Feedback: [Issues Page]
- Discussion Forum: [Discussions Page]
This project is licensed under the MIT License.
Let's work together to build an open, accurate, and comprehensive global legal knowledge base!