aid: openlaws
name: OpenLaws
description: >-
  OpenLaws provides programmatic access to law data including statutes,
  regulations, and case law across U.S. jurisdictions. The API supports
  keyword and hybrid search, jurisdiction and court filtering, citation
  identification and validation, historical version queries with redline
  comparisons, and citation lookup with mapping to authoritative government
  sources.
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Legal
  - Law
  - Statutes
  - Regulations
  - Case Law
  - Search
  - Citations
created: '2025-03-01'
modified: '2026-04-28'
url: >-
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/openlaws/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: openlaws:openlaws
    name: OpenLaws
    description: >-
      OpenLaws API exposes search across statutes, regulations, and case law
      with BM25 or hybrid retrieval; jurisdiction and court filtering; legal
      citation parsing and validation; historical version queries and redline
      comparisons; and citation-to-government-source mapping for use in
      research and AI applications.
    humanURL: https://openlaws.us/api/
    baseURL: https://api.openlaws.us
    tags:
      - Legal
      - Law
      - Statutes
      - Regulations
      - Case Law
      - Search
      - Citations
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://openlaws.apidocumentation.com
      - type: HumanURL
        url: https://openlaws.us/api/
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com