Mauritania legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Mauritanian laws, regulations, and court decisions live across the Journal Officiel de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (JORIM), 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 Mauritania coverage is not yet live; Team and Enterprise customers can request priority onboarding of the sources below.
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Which Mauritanian law sets out the framework for individual and collective labour relations?
Law No. 2004-017 of 6 July 2004 establishing the Labour Code (Code du travail), as amended, is the framework statute governing individual and collective labour relations in Mauritania, published in the Journal Officiel de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (JORIM).
Source: Journal Officiel de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (JORIM), Secrétariat Général du Gouvernement
Illustrative — Mauritania coverage is not yet live in the corpus; citation shown from the official source.
The official Mauritanian sources on our roadmap
Lawstronaut structures Mauritanian legal materials from official government, ministry, court, and regulator sources. Once Mauritania 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
- Journal Officiel de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (JORIM)
- Secrétariat Général du Gouvernement
- Ministère de la Justice
- Banque Centrale de Mauritanie (BCM)
- Autorité de Régulation (ARE)
- Autorité Nationale de la Commande Publique (ANCP)
- Assemblée Nationale
- Cour Suprême
- Conseil Constitutionnel
Mauritanian legal source types we structure
Mauritanian 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), taken directly from the Journal Officiel (JORIM) and official publications.
Legislative History
Draft laws and parliamentary materials from the Assemblée Nationale where available, version by version, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Instructions, circulars, notices, decisions, and enforcement materials from Mauritanian regulators such as the Banque Centrale de Mauritanie and the Autorité de Régulation (ARE).
Case Law
Court and tribunal decisions from official and authoritative Mauritanian sources, including the Cour Suprême and the Conseil Constitutionnel where available.
One Mauritanian legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Mauritanian 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. Mauritania coverage is being onboarded — the endpoint below is live and will return records as coverage lands.
GET /v2/contents?iso=MR&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Mauritanian legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Mauritanian 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 Mauritanian 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 Mauritanian 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 Mauritanian 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 Mauritanian legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Mauritanian law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Mauritanian sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal Mauritanian legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for Mauritanian legal research
Mauritanian legal information is spread across legislation portals, 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 Mauritania legal coverage
Mauritania is an Islamic Republic with a mixed legal system that combines French-derived civil law with Islamic (Sharia) law, applied through a unified national court structure. Primary legislation is published in the Journal Officiel de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (JORIM) by the Secrétariat Général du Gouvernement, while regulatory policy sits across ministries and statutory agencies — the Ministère de la Justice, the Banque Centrale de Mauritanie, the Autorité de Régulation (ARE), and others. Case law spans the Cour Suprême and the Conseil Constitutionnel. Legislation is enacted by the Assemblée Nationale. Official legal materials are published in Arabic, with French widely used across official publications.
Mauritanian law continues to evolve: the 1991 Constitution has been revised several times (including the 2017 referendum that abolished the Senate), the mining regime rests on the Mining Code (Law No. 2008-011 of 27 April 2008, as amended) that governs the country's iron-ore and extractives sector, and the 2012 Investment Code (Law No. 2012-052) reset the framework for foreign and domestic investment — so citations to outdated provisions can simply be wrong. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps a Mauritania legal research answer correct today.
Built for
Legaltech companies
Build Mauritanian legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor Mauritanian regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Mauritanian legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Mauritanian legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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