a2aj/canadian-laws

A2AJ加拿大法律数据集提供了加拿大大量开放获取的全文法律法规。每一行对应一项法律或法规，并在公开可用的情况下包含英文和法文版本。该项目基于难民法律实验室（RLL）早期维护的版本，现由约克大学Osgoode Hall法学院和多伦多都会大学Lincoln Alexander法学院共同主持的研究项目A2AJ维护。该数据集旨在支持实证法律研究、法律技术原型设计以及为公共利益进行的语言模型预训练，特别是那些促进边缘化和低收入社区获得司法公正的工作。数据集包含约5,000份文件，分为联邦立法和联邦法规两类，每类文件都有详细的字段描述，包括引用、名称、日期、来源URL、抓取时间戳、非官方文本和部分结构等。数据集以MIT许可证发布，但用户还需遵守上游许可证的规定。

The **A2AJ Canadian Laws** dataset provides bulk, open-access full-text legislation and regulations from Canada. Each row corresponds to a single law or regulation and contains the English and French versions where both are publicly available. The project builds on an earlier version that was maintained by the Refugee Law Lab (RLL) and is now maintained by A2AJ, a research project co-hosted by York Universitys Osgoode Hall Law School and Toronto Metropolitan Universitys Lincoln Alexander School of Law. The dataset is intended to support empirical legal research, legal-tech prototyping, and language-model pre-training in the public interest—especially work that advances access to justice for marginalised and low-income communities. The dataset includes approximately 5,000 documents, categorized into Federal Legislation and Federal Regulations, with detailed field descriptions such as citations, names, dates, source URLs, scraped timestamps, unofficial texts, and section structures. The dataset is released under an MIT license, but users must also comply with upstream licenses.