Open Legal Data

Our initiative has made a large dataset of Germany court decisions and the corresponding citation network publicly available to help the community to development new techniques for processing legal text. As far as we know there is no similar dataset for German court decisions yet. Having no data available, limits the opportunities for researchers and start-ups likewise. With the release of the dataset, Open Legal Data hopes to foster both areas, especially in Germany.
All decisions are anonymized by the responsible court and have additional meta data, e.g. date and decision type. Citation were automatically extracted with our Legal Reference Extraction tool that is also freely available under an Open Source license.