Costa Rica legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Costa Rican laws, regulations, and court decisions live across the official gazette La Gaceta and the Sistema Costarricense de Información Jurídica (SCIJ), government ministries, regulators, and the courts. 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 Costa Rica coverage is not yet live; Team and Enterprise customers can request priority onboarding of the sources below.
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Which Costa Rican law sets out the framework for individual and collective labour relations?
The Código de Trabajo (Labour Code), Law No. 2 of 27 August 1943, as amended — notably by the Reforma Procesal Laboral (Law No. 9343 of 25 January 2016, in force since July 2017) — is the framework statute governing individual and collective labour relations in Costa Rica, published in the official gazette La Gaceta.
Source: Sistema Costarricense de Información Jurídica (SCIJ), Procuraduría General de la República — pgrweb.go.cr
Illustrative — Costa Rica coverage is not yet live in the corpus; citation shown from the official source.
The official Costa Rican sources on our roadmap
Lawstronaut structures Costa Rican legal materials from official government, ministry, court, and regulator sources. Once Costa Rica 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: legislation portals · government ministries and agencies · regulators · courts and tribunals · public legal information repositories · gazette and publication sources
- Diario Oficial La Gaceta (Imprenta Nacional)
- Sistema Costarricense de Información Jurídica (SCIJ)
- Asamblea Legislativa de la República de Costa Rica
- Poder Judicial de Costa Rica
- Banco Central de Costa Rica (BCCR)
- Superintendencia General de Entidades Financieras (SUGEF)
- Superintendencia General de Valores (SUGEVAL)
- Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos (ARESEP)
- Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (SUTEL)
- Comisión para Promover la Competencia (COPROCOM)
- Agencia de Protección de Datos de los Habitantes (PRODHAB)
- Corte Suprema de Justicia (incl. Sala Constitucional)
Costa Rican legal source types we structure
Costa Rican legal coverage will include primary legislation, secondary legislation, regulatory materials, court decisions, guidance, enforcement documents, and legislative history where available.
Legislation & Regulations
Laws (leyes), decrees (decretos ejecutivos), regulations (reglamentos), agreements (acuerdos), and ministerial resolutions, taken directly from La Gaceta and the Sistema Costarricense de Información Jurídica (SCIJ).
Legislative History
Bills (proyectos de ley), parliamentary records, and amendment histories from the Asamblea Legislativa where available, version by version, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Guidelines, circulars, agreements, and enforcement decisions from Costa Rican regulators such as the Banco Central de Costa Rica, SUGEF, SUGEVAL, ARESEP, SUTEL, COPROCOM, and PRODHAB.
Case Law
Court and tribunal decisions from official and authoritative Costa Rican sources, including the Corte Suprema de Justicia and its Sala Constitucional (Sala IV), where available.
One Costa Rican legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Costa Rican 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. Costa Rica coverage is being onboarded — the endpoint below is live and will return records as coverage lands.
GET /v2/contents?iso=CR&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Costa Rican legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Costa Rican 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 Costa Rican 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 Costa Rican 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 Costa Rican 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 Costa Rican legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Costa Rican law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Costa Rican sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal Costa Rican legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for Costa Rican legal research
Costa Rican legal information is spread across the official gazette, the SCIJ repository, ministries, statutory agencies, regulators, courts, and publication sources. 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 Costa Rica legal coverage
Costa Rica is a civil-law jurisdiction rooted in the continental European and Spanish legal tradition, with a unified national legal system under the Political Constitution of 1949. Primary legislation is enacted by the unicameral Asamblea Legislativa and published in the official gazette La Gaceta, while consolidated texts are maintained in the Sistema Costarricense de Información Jurídica (SCIJ). Regulatory policy sits across ministries and statutory agencies — the Banco Central de Costa Rica, SUGEF, SUGEVAL, ARESEP, SUTEL, COPROCOM, and PRODHAB, among others. Case law spans the Corte Suprema de Justicia and its chambers, including the influential Sala Constitucional (Sala IV). Legal materials are published in Spanish.
Costa Rican law changes at a steady pace: the Código Procesal Civil (Law No. 9342) took effect in 2018, the Reforma Procesal Laboral (Law No. 9343) modernised labour procedure from 2017, and Law No. 8968 on the protection of personal data continues to be applied through PRODHAB decisions and regulations — so citations to outdated provisions can simply be wrong. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps a Costa Rica legal research answer correct today.
Built for
Legaltech companies
Build Costa Rican legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor Costa Rican regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Costa Rican legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Costa Rican legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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