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license: gpl-3.0
language:
  - cs
tags:
  - legal
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K

Czech Legal Corpus Dataset (2025)

Overview

This dataset contains a comprehensive collection of Czech legislative documents including laws, edicts, and government notices that were valid as of February 19, 2025. The corpus was scraped from the official Czech Collection of Laws (Sbírka zákonů) portal at e-sbirka.cz.

Dataset Description

Source: Official Czech Collection of Laws (e-sbirka.cz) Temporal Coverage: All valid legislation as of 19.02.2025 Content: Laws, edicts, and government notices Format: CSV file with properly escaped and quoted text Processing: Text has been cleaned and formatted for:

  • RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) applications
  • Synthetic dataset creation for training purposes

Loading the Dataset

The dataset can be easily loaded using pandas:

import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv('./all_cze_laws.csv',
                 quoting=1,  # QUOTE_ALL
                 quotechar='"',
                 escapechar='\\',
                 encoding='utf-8')