{"repo":"Vaquill-AI/open-us-law","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/Vaquill-AI/open-us-law","clone":"git clone https://github.com/Vaquill-AI/open-us-law.git","description":"Open, structured corpus of US primary law: 2M+ sections of state statutory codes, the US Code, and state constitutions, plus the ingestion pipeline that builds it. Data on Hugging Face (CC BY 4.0); scrapers Apache-2.0. Quarterly snapshots.","language":"Python","stars":44,"topics":["constitution","dataset","government-data","law","legal","legal-ai","legal-data","legal-tech","legaltech","legislation"],"license":"Apache-2.0","category":"scrapers-browser-automation","readme_excerpt":"Open US Law Open, structured US primary law - plus the scrapers that build it. State statutory codes, the US Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, state administrative regulations, state and federal constitutions, and court rules - normalized to a single schema, overwhelmingly from official government sources. Why this exists The law is public. Reading it should not cost money. In practice, it does. A state's regulations sit behind a login. Court rules are scanned PDFs nobody can search. The annotated code that actually tells you what a statute means costs more per year than a legal aid clinic spends on rent. The people who most need to read the law are the least able to pay for the privilege, and everyone in this industry knows it and quietly accepts it. We are not accepting it. So here is every US statute, regulation, constitution, court rule and agency guidance document we could get our hands on. Pulled from official government sources. Cleaned, parsed, deduplicated, structured, and handed over. Three million sections. No key, no quota, no seat licence, no sales call, no contract, no catch. Download it and do whatever you like with it, including building something that competes with us. We built this because somebody had to, and because the people who could have done it years ago decided the paywall was more interesting. If a tenant facing eviction, a solo attorney with no research budget, a clinic with three staff, or one stubborn developer in a garage ends up with the s","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/Vaquill-AI","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/Vaquill-AI/open-us-law/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}