This repository serves as a comprehensive, curated collection of resources for Legal AI development, targeting researchers, developers, and enthusiasts. It aims to facilitate the creation of intelligent justice systems by centralizing datasets, benchmarks, and essential websites in the Legal AI domain, offering a valuable starting point for projects involving legal text analysis, research, and decision-making.

How It Works

The project functions as a living catalog, meticulously gathering and organizing a wide array of open-source datasets, evaluation benchmarks, and key websites relevant to Legal AI. Resources are categorized by task (e.g., corpus, retrieval, QA, classification, summarization, entity extraction) and often include details on language, jurisdiction, size, and associated research papers, providing a structured overview of available tools and data.

Quick Start & Requirements

This repository is a curated list of resources, not a deployable software project. Users can access the listed datasets, benchmarks, and websites directly via the provided links. Specific requirements will vary based on the chosen dataset or tool.

Highlighted Details

• Features a broad spectrum of datasets, including large-scale multilingual corpora like MultiLegalPile (689GB, 24 languages) and MC4_legal (~106GB), alongside specialized corpora for various jurisdictions.
• Includes comprehensive evaluation benchmarks such as LegalLAMA, LexGLUE, LEXTREME, and LegalBench, covering diverse legal NLP tasks across multiple languages.
• Lists numerous websites offering access to legal documents, case law, statutes, and research platforms globally, including major repositories for US, EU, Chinese, and other national legal systems.
• Organizes resources by specific AI tasks within the legal domain, such as case retrieval, question answering, document classification, summarization, and entity extraction.

Maintenance & Community

The repository is maintained by CSHaitao and welcomes contributions. Users can open issues on the GitHub repository or contact the maintainer via email at liht22@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn for suggestions or missing resources.

Licensing & Compatibility

The repository's content is licensed under the MIT License. This permits free use, modification, and distribution for both commercial and non-commercial purposes, with a request for attribution by linking back to the repository.

Limitations & Caveats

As a curated list, the repository's utility is dependent on the quality and accessibility of the linked external resources. Some datasets may have specific access requirements or be very large, demanding significant storage and computational resources. The dynamic nature of Legal AI means resources may become outdated, requiring ongoing community updates.