Add OpenCaseLaw (Swiss case law) to MCP, APIs, and Bulk Data sections - #68
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OpenCaseLaw is an open dataset and retrieval stack for Swiss case law and legislation (~991K decisions since 1875, CC0 data, MIT stack), reachable via a keyless MCP endpoint and REST API. Adds Swiss regional coverage.
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This PR adds OpenCaseLaw (https://opencaselaw.ch) to three sections.
OpenCaseLaw is an open dataset and retrieval stack for Swiss case law and legislation: ~991,000 published court decisions since 1875 (all federal courts, all 26 cantons, and regulators such as FINMA, ComCo/WEKO, FDPIC, ElCom, PostCom, and ComCom) and 21,000+ federal and cantonal laws (494,000+ articles) in German, French, and Italian, linked by an ~8.9M-edge resolved citation graph. The corpus is rebuilt nightly; published figures are approximate. Access is via an MCP endpoint (mcp.opencaselaw.ch) and a REST API, both without an account or API key, plus a web search UI, bulk download, and a Microsoft Word add-in. The decision data is dedicated to the public domain (CC0 1.0) and the retrieval stack is open source (MIT). A 2026 arXiv preprint, "OpenCaseLaw: an open corpus and retrieval stack for Swiss case law", describes the project.
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Against the inclusion criteria: the stack is open source (MIT) and the data is CC0; it adds regional coverage for Switzerland (a jurisdiction not otherwise well represented); the combination of a free, no-key MCP endpoint and REST API over roughly one million Swiss decisions is a distinct technical approach; and the accompanying arXiv preprint gives it academic and research relevance.
Disclosure: the submitter (GitHub @jonashertner) is the founder of OpenCaseLaw.