What Legiliban is
Legiliban is the legal database of the Lebanese University's Centre for Research and Studies in Legal Informatics (مركز الدراسات والأبحاث في المعلوماتية القانونية). It is online at legallaw.ul.edu.lb, and legiliban.ul.edu.lb is the same server. The Centre was created in 1986 and has catalogued Lebanese legislation, case law and doctrine since then.
What this site takes from Legiliban
Legiliban is the main source of every text on this site. Today that is 103,112 laws, decrees and decisions, 100,776 of them with their full text (389,078 articles), 47,656 court rulings, 6,851 issues of the Official Gazette, 3,633 legal opinions, 1,973 agreements and 2,574 articles from legal periodicals.
Each page links to the Centre's own record. A nightly update adds new texts and changes from the Centre. Where the Centre has not published a text yet, this site may read it from scans of the Official Gazette's pages, and the page says so.
What this site adds
- An interface in English, Arabic and French.
- One page per article, with a stable address.
- Search across laws, rulings and the Official Gazette.
- Links between a law and the texts that amend it.
- A free JSON API.
- An MCP server for AI assistants.
- A full download on Hugging Face.
This site was built to make the same texts easier to read, search and reuse than on the current Legiliban site.
Independent, and meant for the university
This site is built by Taktek as a public service, with the intention of giving it to the Lebanese University.
This site is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated by the Lebanese University or the Centre.
The Official Gazette remains the authoritative text.
Information from published official texts, not legal advice. The Official Gazette remains the authoritative text: check it, or consult a qualified lawyer for your case. No lawyer or law firm reviews, endorses or stands behind this site.
Other places to read Lebanese law
Legiliban and this site are 2 of 13 sources we list. See where to read Lebanese law online.