README.md

metadata

license: gpl-3.0
language:
  - cs
tags:
  - legal
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K

Czech Legal Codes Dataset

Dataset Description

This dataset contains full texts of valid Czech legal codes (laws) as of February 21, 2025. The dataset focuses exclusively on primary legislation (laws) and excludes secondary legislation such as regulations and ordinances.

Data Source

The data was scraped from the official Czech Collection of Laws (Sbírka zákonů) portal: e-sbirka.cz

Data Format

The dataset is provided as a CSV file with two columns:

• law_id: Unique identifier for each legal code
• law_text: Full text content of the legal code

Loading the Data

You can load the dataset using pandas:

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