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Mali legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.

Malian laws, regulations, and court decisions live across the Journal officiel de la République du Mali, 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 Mali coverage is not yet live; Team and Enterprise customers can request priority onboarding of the sources below.

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Q

Which Malian law governs the protection of personal data?

A

Loi n°2013-015 du 21 mai 2013 portant protection des données à caractère personnel en République du Mali is the framework statute for personal data protection in Mali, published in the Journal officiel de la République du Mali and enforced by the Autorité de Protection des Données à Caractère Personnel (APDP).

Source: Journal officiel de la République du Mali (Secrétariat Général du Gouvernement) — sgg.gov.ml

Illustrative — Mali coverage is not yet live in the corpus; citation shown from the official source.

OFFICIAL SOURCES

The official Malian sources on our roadmap

Lawstronaut structures Malian legal materials from official government, ministry, court, and regulator sources. Once Mali 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 · regional legal frameworks · gazette and publication sources

  • Journal officiel de la République du Mali
  • Secrétariat Général du Gouvernement (SGG)
  • Ministère de la Justice et des Droits de l'Homme
  • Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (BCEAO)
  • Autorité de Protection des Données à Caractère Personnel (APDP)
  • Autorité Malienne de Régulation des Télécommunications/TIC et des Postes (AMRTP)
  • Autorité de Régulation des Marchés Publics et des Délégations de Service Public (ARMDS)
  • OHADA (Organisation pour l'Harmonisation en Afrique du Droit des Affaires)
  • Cour Suprême du Mali
  • Cour Constitutionnelle
Mali isn't live yet — request priority coverage → Team and Enterprise customers can request the portals, courts, regulators, gazettes, and official sources they need onboarded first, reviewed and prioritized by the Lawstronaut team.
CONTENT TYPES

Malian legal source types we structure

Malian legal coverage will include primary legislation, secondary legislation, regulatory materials, court decisions, guidance, enforcement documents, and legislative history where available.

Legislation & Regulations

Laws (lois), ordinances (ordonnances), decrees (décrets), and ministerial orders (arrêtés), together with the OHADA Uniform Acts that govern much of Malian business law, taken directly from the Journal officiel de la République du Mali and official publications.

Legislative History

Draft laws and parliamentary materials from the National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale) and the transitional Conseil National de Transition (CNT) where available, version by version, each tied to its source.

Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement

Guidelines, notices, circulars, decisions, and enforcement materials from Malian and regional regulators such as the BCEAO, the APDP, and the AMRTP.

Case Law

Court and tribunal decisions from official and authoritative Malian sources, including Cour Suprême and Cour Constitutionnelle decisions where available.

WHAT YOU GET

One Malian legal data layer. Four ways to use it.

Lawstronaut API

Query Malian 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. Mali coverage is being onboarded — the endpoint below is live and will return records as coverage lands.

GET /v2/contents?iso=ML&limit=20

Lawstronaut MCP

Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Malian legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Malian 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 Malian 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 Malian 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.

FEATURES

What you'll be able to do with Malian 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 Malian legal materials
  • Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Malian law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
  • Connect AI agents to official Malian sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
  • Build internal Malian legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
WHY LAWSTRONAUT

Why Lawstronaut for Malian legal research

Malian legal information is spread across the official gazette, government ministries, statutory agencies, regional regulators, the OHADA framework, 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 Mali legal coverage

Mali is a civil-law jurisdiction rooted in French legal tradition, and a member of both the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU/UEMOA) and OHADA, whose Uniform Acts govern much of its business law. Primary legislation is published in the Journal officiel de la République du Mali by the Secrétariat Général du Gouvernement, while regulatory policy sits across ministries and statutory agencies — the Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (BCEAO), the data protection authority (APDP), the telecoms regulator (AMRTP), and others. Case law spans the Cour Suprême, the Cour Constitutionnelle, and the courts of appeal. Legal materials are published primarily in French.

Malian law is in a period of rapid change: a new Constitution establishing the Fourth Republic was adopted by referendum and promulgated on 22 July 2023, and the mining and investment frameworks were overhauled in 2023 to reset the state's share of resource revenues — so citations to outdated provisions can simply be wrong. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps a Mali legal research answer correct today.

BUILT FOR

Built for

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Legaltech companies

Build Malian legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.

02

Compliance & GRC teams

Monitor Malian regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.

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AI builders

Ground legal AI answers in official Malian legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.

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Internal legal teams

Give lawyers and business users faster access to Malian legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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