LawDB
LawDB provides access to German and EU legislation and case law from Germany, the EU, the Council of Europe, the International Court of Justice and the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
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Documentation
Documentation
Understand the sources, connect LawDB to an AI client and research with the MCP tools.
What is LawDB?
LawDB provides access to German and EU legislation and case law from Germany, the EU, the Council of Europe, the International Court of Justice and the Permanent Court of Arbitration. Documents are obtained from official sources.
Through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI applications can search the holdings, retrieve full texts with available paragraph numbers and read individual provisions.
From a question to a source
- Collections: Learn which sources and language versions LawDB covers.
- MCP setup: Connect your client to the appropriate endpoint and sign in.
- Tool reference: Choose a tool for your question and reuse the document IDs and links it returns.
Choose the right tool
| Task | Tool |
|---|---|
| Find decisions or a legislative act | search_legal_documents |
| Read a known document | get_document |
| Find provisions about a topic within one act | search_provisions |
| Read a specific provision | get_provision |
| Check jurisdictions, languages and courts | list_jurisdictions |
| Use the ChatGPT connector | search and fetch |