Build the website from public source
The website source and a synthetic fixture are public. Developers can inspect the Arabic and English interface, test keyword search, and follow the separate service distribution.
Project journal
Changes to Lebanese Legislation, recorded retrospectively under the dates they happened. Read what changed and find the sources and interfaces you can use.
Original court scans are available for document research
The court-scan release contains 44,766 PDFs and indexes for 274,936 pages. It preserves source links and hashes, with separate rights and privacy guidance.
Draft a court-page transcription in your browser
A public handwriting demo pairs three original scan pages with a local editor. Downloads remain unreviewed drafts and nothing is automatically submitted.
One collection links the public datasets and tools
The Hugging Face collection brings structured legal data, court scans and the browser transcription demo into one public resource list.
Database, API and MCP service images are public
Version 0.1.4 service images are publicly available for Linux AMD64 and ARM64. The first database release manifest remains pending. This update explains what researchers and developers can use today.
An open-source starter for local legal services
A public MIT-licensed starter documents a local database, API and MCP setup with configurable services.
Find legal passages by meaning, then check the source
An optional vector index broadens discovery while rereading candidate passages from the canonical collection.
Search across languages with source excerpts
One search combines ordinary results with a later source-excerpt section, keeping the quoted wording tied to the library.
Show Constitutional Council decisions beside the law
Source-linked Council notes add another part of the context needed to read a law’s status.
Open the cited article from a ruling
Ruling pages gain direct links to the legal articles identified in the citation graph.
Say when the exact cited text is missing
When an exact citation is absent, search can show same-number texts from other dates with a clear notice.
Read difficult judgments with a visible warning
Hard-to-read judgment pages can be published with a low-confidence warning and the original PDF link.
Keep repeated and sub-numbered articles distinct
Article lookup accepts spelling variants while preserving distinct legal provision numbers.
List legislation and inspect amendment relationships
API and MCP listings add date filters, pagination and article-level amendment relationships.
Keep scanned legislation with its Gazette issue
Scanned texts gain an issue-level publication route as well as their individual document pages.
Extract citations from judgments and summaries
Reading judgment records adds citations to the legal graph, extending the material available for article-to-ruling research.
Arabic becomes the library’s default language
The main website now opens in Arabic, with the English interface under /en/.
Make uncertain judgment readings visible
Judgment pages and API responses can mark words where machine readings disagree.
English titles help you find the Arabic source
On 21 October 2026, unofficial English titles added another route into the collection. The Arabic source remains the reference for checking the wording.
Start with a topic, then follow the legal text
Topic guides offer another entry point into the library, with links back to the provisions discussed.
Read the judgment behind a ruling record
Ruling pages gained access to full judgment scans, machine readings and search beyond catalogue summaries.
Distinguish a source error from a legal amendment
Notes and version records explain corrections without presenting every wording difference as a new law.
Carry new records into citations and dataset updates
The update workflow links newly collected texts and refreshes the dataset alongside the library.
Search with the citation you already have
Number, year and date recognition helps a legal citation reach the intended text.
Keep the evidence behind corrected dates
Date corrections record the original value, the replacement and the evidence used to settle the difference.
Show where Gazette readings disagree
Disputed words remain visible on scanned legislation and in machine-readable responses.
Read recent legislation from Gazette scans
Gazette page scans provide another source when a recent text is missing from the main collection.
Find Arabic records with English or French terms
A glossary fallback helps readers reach Arabic legal records when an English or French query has no direct match.
Find the hosted service in the official MCP registry
The official registry lists com.lebaneselegislation/mcp with the hosted endpoint. Its publication record dates to 13 October 2026.
Keep code-wide amount changes beside the articles
Changes that multiply sums across a code now have links to provisions containing those amounts.
Read the library through an Arabic interface
Arabic navigation brought the catalogue, source information and document pages into the language of the legal texts.
Let an assistant retrieve Lebanese legal sources
The public MCP server gives compatible assistants tools to search the library and retrieve its records.
Follow changes to a law in your feed reader
On 13 October 2026, Atom feeds made changes to Lebanese law easier to follow without an account. The feeds point back to the amending texts.
Download structured legal data on Hugging Face
The public dataset makes the library available as structured tables for analysis and reuse.
Follow the links between legal texts
A legal graph connects texts, articles, rulings and Gazette issues while preserving the kind of relationship.
Retrieve legal records through a JSON API
A read-only HTTP interface lets applications search and retrieve records without parsing website pages.
Make the source and reuse terms visible
The library documents attribution and rights separately from the software used to serve it.
Lebanese law, open to read
On 8 October 2026, Lebanese Legislation launched as a public library of Lebanese legal texts. Read the source, follow its references, and check the official publication.
Read an article with its amendment history
An amendment layer separates a legal change from the wording originally displayed by the source.
Open a code at the article you need
Article navigation and stable code pages make long legal texts easier to read and cite.
Keeping legal records traceable to their source
The first archive established the source trail behind the library: original pages, stable record identities and structured exports.
Preserve the sources before building search
The first project step was to preserve raw legal material and plan repeatable updates before building a reading and search interface.