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CC0 · all 26 cantons + federal courts

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The open record of Swiss law, rebuilt every day.

Published decisions from every federal and cantonal court, plus 21,000+ federal and cantonal laws. Open data (CC0), machine-readable.

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01  Inside the corpus

An open dataset of Swiss law.

1’047’614 decisions
Published rulings from the Federal Supreme Court, every federal court, and all 26 cantons, 1875–2026, in German, French and Italian.
9’673 ECtHR judgments
The Swiss-respondent case law, plus every Chamber and Grand Chamber judgment of importance 1–3 against any of the 46 Council of Europe states, 1960–2026.
21’988 laws
5,546 federal laws (Fedlex) and 16,400 cantonal acts, with 515,000+ articles.
9.8M citations
A resolved citation graph linking decisions to the decisions and statutes they cite.

Case law

BGE · Official reports of the Federal Supreme CourtThe Federal Supreme Court’s published leading cases, since 1875.
35’704
Federal Supreme Court (BGer)Every decision published online since 1986, far beyond the official reports.
194’265
Federal Administrative Court (BVGer)Asylum, immigration, procurement, supervision and more.
109’662
Federal Criminal Court (BStGer)Criminal, complaints and appeals chambers.
11’753
Federal Patent Court (BPatGer)Patent infringement and validity.
198
Military Court of Cassation (MKG)Military case law.
1’247
Further federal bodiesFederal Council appeal decisions · Swiss Sport Tribunal · former Asylum Appeals Commission (EMARK)
564
Cantonal courts · all 26 cantonsSuperior, administrative, social-insurance, commercial and specialised courts, each from the official source.
667’434

International case law

European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)The Swiss-respondent case law, plus every Chamber and Grand Chamber judgment of importance 1–3 against any of the 46 Council of Europe states, since 1960.
9’668
UN treaty bodies · individual communicationsDecisions of CCPR, CAT, CERD, CEDAW, CRC, CRPD, CESCR and CED, against every State party.
4’492
UN Working Group on Arbitrary DetentionOpinions since 2010.
1’150
Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU)Judgments on the EU acts Swiss law follows: Lugano/Brussels, Dublin/Schengen, free movement and social security, air passenger rights, VAT, data protection.
2’809
International Court of Justice (ICJ)Judgments, advisory opinions and orders with reasons, 1947–2023.
268

Regulatory decisions

FINMA · enforcement & insurance rulingsDecisions of the financial-market supervisor.
3’040
FDPIC · data protection & freedom of informationThe federal data-protection authority’s recommendations and decisions.
1’825
UBI · broadcasting complaintsThe independent broadcasting complaints authority.
683
Further regulators & commissionsCOMCO · ElCom · ESchK · PostCom · ComCom · BAZG · ESBK · Price Supervisor · RAB · ESTV
1’779

Administrative practice

Social insurance (BSV)Guidelines, circulars and communications on AHV, IV, EL, EO, family allowances and occupational pensions, every retained version, DE/FR/IT.
6’083
Occupational pension supervision (OAK BV)Directives and communications, every version, with drafts.
253
FINMA circularsEvery published version, in force and superseded, DE/FR/IT/EN.
1’133
ESTV circularsDirect federal tax, withholding tax, stamp duties.
285
ESTV VAT guidanceThe published VAT practice.
153
SECO commentary · Employment ActArG and ArGV 1–5, article by article, DE/FR/IT.
1’102
SECO · unemployment insuranceThe AVIG practice and directives, DE/FR/IT.
54
BAG · health insuranceCirculars under the KVG.
38
COMCO noticesNotices and explanatory notes under the Cartel Act, current and superseded.
58
FOEN enforcement aidsEnvironmental law as enforced.
298
SEM directives & asylum handbookDirectives and circulars on immigration and asylum law, and the Handbuch Asyl und Rückkehr.
184
Debt enforcement (SchKG)Directives of the Federal Office of Justice, and the circulars and subsistence-minimum guidelines of the cantonal supervisory authorities.
840
UN recommendations to SwitzerlandTreaty-body concluding observations, UPR, SPT and special procedures, by paragraph; with the federal offices’ German translations.
3’366
UN General CommentsEvery General Comment and General Recommendation, FR and EN.
356
UNHCR country guidanceEligibility guidelines and positions for ten countries of origin, every edition.
31
VPB / JAAC · federal administrative practiceThe official series 1987–2017, full text: rulings and legal opinions of the federal administration.
2’502

Legislative materials

Federal Council dispatches (Botschaften)Verbatim, searchable to the paragraph: complete since 1999, 1850–1999 being added from the Federal Archives scans.
14’644
Reports and opinions in the Federal GazetteFederal Council reports and opinions, parliamentary committee reports, draft acts, consultation notices, verbatim.
13’472
Consultations (Vernehmlassungen)Every federal consultation since 1993: explanatory reports, drafts, results reports and submissions, verbatim (Fedlex and the FOJ legislative projects).
10’565

Commentary & scholarship

Commentaries · OnlineKommentar · Open Legal CommentaryArticle-level commentary: OnlineKommentar (CC-BY) and the Open Legal Commentary on the Federal Constitution (CC BY-SA).
1’796
Commentary · Schaffhausen administrative procedureMeyer/Herrmann/Bilger (eds.), EIZ 2021: 94 articles of the VRG and JG by 23 authors, full text, CC BY-SA.
94
ScholarshipOpen-access publications from 27 Swiss repositories, full-text search.
51’892

02  Coverage

All 26 cantons and the federal courts.

Published decisions per jurisdiction, scraped directly from each official source, deduplicated, and rebuilt nightly.

137 courts · 26 cantons · federal courts

03  Updates

Rebuilt every night.

Courts are re-scraped daily; the corpus, the citation graph and this page are regenerated automatically — current per-court status on the coverage page.

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151
years of case law
3
national languages

As of 2026-11-08

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