Iraq legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Iraqi laws, regulations, and court decisions live across Al-Waqa'i al-Iraqiya (the Official Gazette of Iraq), the Council of Representatives, 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 Iraq coverage is not yet live; Team and Enterprise customers can request priority onboarding of the sources below.
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Which Iraqi law is the foundation of the country's law of obligations, contracts, and property?
The Iraqi Civil Code, Law No. 40 of 1951, drafted under Abd al-Razzaq al-Sanhuri, is the framework statute for obligations, contracts, and property rights in Iraq, published in the Official Gazette (Al-Waqa'i al-Iraqiya) and administered through the ordinary courts.
Source: Al-Waqa'i al-Iraqiya (Official Gazette of Iraq) — Ministry of Justice, moj.gov.iq
Illustrative — Iraq coverage is not yet live in the corpus; citation shown from the official source.
The official Iraqi sources on our roadmap
Lawstronaut structures Iraqi legal materials from official government, ministry, court, and regulator sources. Once Iraq 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
- Al-Waqa'i al-Iraqiya (Official Gazette of Iraq)
- Iraqi Council of Representatives (Majlis al-Nuwwab)
- Ministry of Justice
- Federal Supreme Court of Iraq
- Court of Cassation (Mahkamat al-Tamyiz)
- Higher Judicial Council
- Central Bank of Iraq (CBI)
- Iraq Securities Commission (ISC)
- National Investment Commission (NIC)
- Communications and Media Commission (CMC)
Iraqi legal source types we structure
Iraqi legal coverage will include primary legislation, secondary legislation, regulatory materials, court decisions, guidance, enforcement documents, and legislative history where available.
Legislation & Regulations
Laws (qawanin), regulations and bylaws (anzima), instructions (ta'limat), and decrees, taken directly from Al-Waqa'i al-Iraqiya (the Official Gazette) and official publications, including landmark codes such as the Civil Code (Law No. 40 of 1951) and the Penal Code (Law No. 111 of 1969).
Legislative History
Draft laws and parliamentary materials from the Council of Representatives (Majlis al-Nuwwab) where available, version by version, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Regulations, instructions, circulars, decisions, and enforcement materials from Iraqi regulators such as the Central Bank of Iraq, the Iraq Securities Commission, the National Investment Commission, and the Communications and Media Commission.
Case Law
Court and tribunal decisions from official and authoritative Iraqi sources, including the Federal Supreme Court, the Court of Cassation, and the Council of State (administrative judiciary) where available.
One Iraqi legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Iraqi 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. Iraq coverage is being onboarded — the endpoint below is live and will return records as coverage lands.
GET /v2/contents?iso=IQ&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Iraqi legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Iraqi 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 Iraqi 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 Iraqi 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 Iraqi 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 Iraqi legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Iraqi law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Iraqi sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal Iraqi legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for Iraqi legal research
Iraqi legal information is spread across the Official Gazette, the Council of Representatives, ministries, statutory agencies, regulators, courts, and — for the Kurdistan Region — a separate legislature and gazette. 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 Iraq legal coverage
Iraq is a civil-law jurisdiction whose private law is built on the Iraqi Civil Code (Law No. 40 of 1951), drafted under Abd al-Razzaq al-Sanhuri and drawing on both French-influenced civil tradition and Islamic law — with Sharia principles most prominent in personal status matters through the Personal Status Law (Law No. 188 of 1959). Primary legislation is enacted by the Council of Representatives and published in Al-Waqa'i al-Iraqiya, the Official Gazette issued by the Ministry of Justice. The judiciary spans the Federal Supreme Court (constitutional review), the Court of Cassation, the Higher Judicial Council, and the Council of State for administrative matters, while regulators such as the Central Bank of Iraq, the Iraq Securities Commission, and the National Investment Commission issue subordinate rules. Legal materials are published primarily in Arabic, with Kurdish also an official language.
Iraqi law moves quickly and is layered: the 2005 federal Constitution reset the institutional framework, the National Investment Law (Law No. 13 of 2006, amended by Law No. 50 of 2015) reshaped the rules for foreign and domestic investment, and the Kurdistan Region exercises its own legislative competence with a separate parliament and gazette — so a single provision may differ between federal Iraq and the Region, and citations to superseded text can simply be wrong. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps an Iraq legal research answer correct today.
Built for
Legaltech companies
Build Iraqi legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor Iraqi regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Iraqi legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Iraqi legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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Tell us which Iraqi sources you need first — legislation, regulators, or case law — and we'll prioritise onboarding of official Iraqi legal data.