American Samoa legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
American Samoan laws, regulations, and court decisions live across the American Samoa Code Annotated (ASCA), the Legislature (Fono), executive departments, regulators, and the High Court. Lawstronaut structures legal data from official sources into one format used across more than 150 jurisdictions — with every record linked to its official source. Structured American Samoa coverage is not yet live; Team and Enterprise customers can request priority onboarding of the sources below.
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What is the foundational governing instrument of American Samoa?
The Revised Constitution of American Samoa, which took effect on 1 July 1967, is the organic governing instrument of the territory. It establishes the executive branch, the bicameral Legislature (the Fono), and the judiciary, and is set out in the American Samoa Code Annotated (ASCA), the official compilation of the territory's statutes.
Source: American Samoa Bar Association (compiler of the American Samoa Code Annotated) — asbar.org
Illustrative — American Samoa coverage is not yet live in the corpus; citation shown from the official source.
The official American Samoan sources on our roadmap
Lawstronaut structures American Samoan legal materials from official government, legislative, court, and regulator sources. Once American Samoa coverage is live, each record links back to its original source, with metadata such as issuing authority, publication date, legal link, portal, content type, and version where available.
Source categories: statutory codes · the Legislature (Fono) · executive departments and agencies · regulators · courts · publication and legal information repositories
- American Samoa Code Annotated (ASCA)
- American Samoa Administrative Code (ASAC)
- American Samoa Bar Association
- Legislature of American Samoa (Fono)
- Office of the Governor
- High Court of American Samoa
- District Court of American Samoa
- Department of Legal Affairs (Attorney General)
- American Samoa Government
- U.S. Department of the Interior — Office of Insular Affairs
American Samoan legal source types we structure
American Samoan legal coverage will include primary legislation, secondary legislation, regulatory materials, court decisions, guidance, enforcement documents, and legislative history where available.
Legislation & Regulations
The Revised Constitution of American Samoa (1967), public laws enacted by the Fono, the American Samoa Code Annotated (ASCA), and Governor's executive orders, taken directly from the official code and government publications.
Legislative History
Bills and legislative materials from the Fono — the House of Representatives and the Senate — where available, version by version, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Rules and guidance from the American Samoa Administrative Code (ASAC) and enforcement materials from executive departments and agencies such as the Department of Commerce, the Department of Legal Affairs, and territorial regulators.
Case Law
Court decisions from official and authoritative American Samoan sources, including the High Court of American Samoa — its Trial, Appellate, and Land and Titles Divisions — and the District Court, where available.
One American Samoan legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query American Samoan laws, regulations, court decisions, regulatory guidance, and enforcement materials through a REST API. Use structured metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and version history to power legaltech products, compliance workflows, and internal research tools. American Samoa coverage is being onboarded — the endpoint below is live and will return records as coverage lands.
GET /v2/contents?iso=AS&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to American Samoan legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official American Samoan materials — deployable in minutes, with no integration work, once coverage is live.
AI Agent Integration
Give your legal AI agent same-turn provenance: it retrieves current American Samoan legal materials — official source links, metadata, and full text — before generating an answer, with a citation and timestamp on every response.
Build with Lawstronaut
Build American Samoan legal search, monitoring, compliance, research, and legal AI features without crawling, parsing, normalizing, and updating official sources yourself. We handle source discovery, ingestion, normalization, versioning, and change detection; you build the product.
What you'll be able to do with American Samoan legal data
- Retrieve legal metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and original source files where available
- Filter by jurisdiction, portal, issuing authority, authority type, language, status, and dates
- Access official legal links for citation and audit trails — citation, timestamp, and source link returned in the same turn
- Track point-in-time versions and article-level changes across American Samoan legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in American Samoan law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official American Samoan sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal American Samoan legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for American Samoan legal research
American Samoan legal information is spread across the statutory code, the Legislature, executive departments, regulators, courts, and publication repositories. For humans, that means slow research. For AI systems, it's a bigger problem: fragmented source access, inconsistent formats, missing provenance, and weak citation trails.
Lawstronaut turns those sources into one structured legal data layer — source links, metadata, full text, versioning, and API/MCP access. Your product or agent retrieves the legal source directly instead of relying on generic web search or unverified model memory. Every answer carries a citation, a timestamp, and a link to the official document — the provenance that makes a legal research platform defensible to auditors and regulators.
About American Samoa legal coverage
American Samoa is an unincorporated, unorganized territory of the United States in the South Pacific. Its legal system blends US common law with Samoan custom (fa'a Samoa): customary law governs matai (chiefly) titles and communal land through the High Court's Land and Titles Division. The territory is governed by the Revised Constitution of American Samoa (1967) under authority delegated by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior; statutes are compiled in the American Samoa Code Annotated (ASCA) and administrative rules in the American Samoa Administrative Code (ASAC), enacted by the bicameral Legislature, the Fono. The judiciary comprises the High Court of American Samoa and the District Court — notably, American Samoa has no United States federal district court. Legal materials are published in English, with Samoan used alongside it in the community and legislature.
American Samoan law carries features found in few other jurisdictions and continues to evolve: American Samoans are US nationals rather than birthright citizens — a status tested in ongoing federal litigation such as Fitisemanu v. United States — while ASCA restrictions on the alienation of communal land and the developing body of matai title law shape property and identity in ways US mainland law does not. Because the code, the constitution, and Land and Titles jurisprudence are amended and refined over time, citations to outdated provisions can simply be wrong. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps an American Samoa legal research answer correct today.
Built for
Legaltech companies
Build American Samoan legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor American Samoan regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official American Samoan legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to American Samoan legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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Tell us which American Samoan sources you need first — legislation, regulators, or case law — and we'll prioritise onboarding of official American Samoan legal data.