Swiss Case Law
Connect legal-research or compliance agents to 956k Swiss court decisions with search, citations, and trilingual statute lookup.
Overview
ch.opencaselaw/swiss-caselaw is a Build-phase MCP server that integrates Swiss case law—956k decisions—with search, citations, and statute lookup for agents.
What is this MCP server?
- Corpus of 956k Swiss court decisions exposed via MCP over SSE
- Full-text search plus citation graph navigation for precedent chains
- Statute lookup supported in German, French, and Italian
- Hosted remote at mcp.opencaselaw.ch with website opencaselaw.ch
- Legal-data MCP integration, not general web search
- 956,000 Swiss court decisions in corpus
- 3 official languages: DE, FR, IT
- Server version 1.0.0
Community signal: 44 GitHub stars.
What problem does it solve?
Building Swiss legal AI without a structured case-law API forces brittle scraping and weak citation trails in your agent.
Who is it for?
Builders shipping Swiss legal research, compliance, or analyst agents who need MCP-native access to decisions and citations.
Skip if: Non-Swiss jurisdictions, casual blogging without legal data needs, or teams unwilling to handle legal-use disclaimers in the UI.
What do I get? / Deliverables
Your agent can query a large Swiss decision corpus and statutes in three languages through one MCP remote during product integration.
- Agent-callable Swiss case search and citation traversal
- Trilingual statute lookup hooks for DE/FR/IT workflows
- Grounded legal research layer for Swiss-focused SaaS or internal tools
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Journey fit
Legal and regtech products wire external case-law APIs during Build when agents need grounded retrieval, not during generic idea brainstorming. Integrations subphase covers MCP registration and tool calls into Open Case Law’s remote legal datastore for your app or workflow.
How it compares
Domain-specific legal datastore MCP, not a general RAG skill or web browser automation server.
Common Questions / FAQ
Who is ch.opencaselaw/swiss-caselaw for?
Developers and solo founders building Swiss legal-tech or research agents who need programmatic access to court decisions and statutes via MCP.
When should I use ch.opencaselaw/swiss-caselaw?
Use it while integrating retrieval into a Build-phase agent or API when answers must cite Swiss case law and statutes in DE, FR, or IT.
How do I add ch.opencaselaw/swiss-caselaw to my agent?
Add the remote MCP server https://mcp.opencaselaw.ch with transport type sse in your MCP client configuration, then grant tools access for legal research tasks.