Law data that enhances your capabilities.
Introducing the OpenLaws API
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With the OpenLaws API, your team can:
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- Search by keyword (BM25 or hybrid) across statutes and regulations or case law. Filter by jurisdiction or court.
- See the regulation’s text in context of your risk questionnaires and compliance requirements
- Show statute and regulation text inside your Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) or Integrated Risk Management (IRM) systems
- Deep-link legal citations to the current law’s text and add authoritative government website URLs
- Provide up-to-date, validated legal data for RAG, agentic workflows, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning projects. Display the original rich text of the law for AI explanability.
- Query historical versions and redline difference from current codes and regulations (currently available for Federal laws only)
- Identify and validate malformed legal citations in your documents, spreadsheets, and databases. Find the original government source for citations.
along with District of Columbia and Puerto Rico
Sections of law tracked
Coverage of Federal statutes and regulations
How to use the OpenLaws Legal Data API
About OpenLaws
OpenLaws, the OpenLaws API, and OpenRegs are products of OpenLaws Public Benefit Corporation, a CivicTech innovation studio. Backed by a deep understanding of legal text and government technology, we’ve set out to solve a fundamental problem: there has to be a better way to navigate the law. That’s why we’re committed to building frictionless, equitable access to the law for everyone.
Although U.S. law is in the public domain, it’s forever frustrating to discover regulations that are inaccessible due to paywalls or a difficult-to-search state government website. As technologists working in the federal government, we’ve recognized the need for intuitive, accessible legal tools.
Over the last four years, we’ve conducted dozens of rounds of user research with attorneys, compliance professionals, and law librarians to understand their needs. We’ve painstakingly transcribed scans of laws, studied how legal research tools fall short of risk and compliance needs, and carefully considered design and readability – all to build OpenLaws, a powerful legal resource for all.
We’re always looking for feedback to optimize OpenLaws and OpenRegs as a comprehensive resource for legal and compliance professionals across every industry. Have a challenge that makes your job harder?