Swiss Case Law
by jonashertnercommunityv1.0.0
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The Swiss Case Law Open Dataset is a comprehensive machine-readable archive of Swiss court decisions and legislation, designed for AI agents and legal research. It includes over 965,000 court decisions and 5,000 federal laws, providing tools for citation analysis and legal research.
From the registry: 956k Swiss court decisions: full-text search, citation graph, statute lookup (DE/FR/IT)
Install & configure
Install in your client
Paste into the AI you're chatting with — it will figure out the rest
Please install the `swiss-caselaw` MCP server into my current AI client (that's you).
Canonical MCP server config (HTTP transport):
- url: `https://opencaselaw.ch/mcp`
Note: 965,000+ Swiss court decisions (1875-present) + ~5,000 federal laws + ~30,000 cantonal acts. 21 MCP tools: search, leading cases, citation networks, appeal chains, doctrine overviews, exam questions. CC0 data, no API keys. Also available locally via npm package.
Add this MCP server to my current client's config in the correct format for you. If you need secrets or credentials I haven't provided, ASK me — do not invent values or leave raw placeholders. After adding it, tell me how to verify the server is connected.Note: 965,000+ Swiss court decisions (1875-present) + ~5,000 federal laws + ~30,000 cantonal acts. 21 MCP tools: search, leading cases, citation networks, appeal chains, doctrine overviews, exam questions. CC0 data, no API keys. Also available locally via npm package.
Tools (12)
Natural-language decision search
Allows users to perform natural-language searches for court decisions.
Leading-case discovery
Identifies leading cases within the legal framework.
Citation networks
Analyzes citation relationships between legal documents.
Appeal chains
Tracks the progression of cases through the legal system.
Jurisprudence evolution
Examines changes in legal interpretations over time.
Federal + cantonal law article lookup
Facilitates lookup of specific articles in federal and cantonal laws.
Full-text search
Enables searching across both federal and cantonal law texts.
Doctrine overviews
Provides overviews of legal doctrines and relevant cases.
Scholarly commentary lookup
Finds scholarly commentary related to legal cases.
Fallbearbeitung exam questions
Generates exam questions based on real case fact patterns.
Draft mock decisions
Creates draft decisions based on provided fact patterns.
Structured case briefs
Generates structured briefs summarizing case details.
Prerequisites
- • python3
- • Python 3.10+
- • Node.js 18+
Remote Endpoints
https://mcp.opencaselaw.ch
type: sse
Details
- Language
- Python
- License
- MIT
- Released
- Mar 10, 2026
- Last commit
- Jun 14, 2026
- Registry name
- ch.opencaselaw/swiss-caselaw