Legal data across North America, sourced and structured for AI.
Access legislation, regulations, case law, regulatory guidance, and enforcement materials across the United States, Canada, Mexico, and covered Caribbean jurisdictions. Lawstronaut brings federal, national, state, and provincial sources into one consistent schema through API and MCP, with source links and retrieval metadata for verification.
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North American jurisdictions
21,237,552
North American records
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Source portals
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Coverage checked through Lawstronaut MCP on 14 September 2026. Counts include only jurisdictions with returned records. Source portals include official publishers and other authoritative repositories; separate language feeds count separately. Records are corpus entries, not a count of unique laws or judgments. Update frequency varies by source.
What “North America” means on this page
This page uses a broad North American scope, including Central America and the Caribbean. Current live coverage is available for the United States, Canada, Mexico, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic, together with separately indexed US states, the District of Columbia, and Canadian provinces.
The directory includes 61 jurisdictions with returned records: five country-level jurisdictions and 56 subnational jurisdictions. Country-level and subnational coverage are shown separately so you can select the legal sources relevant to your research.
Browse North American coverage
Search jurisdictions with live records by name or ISO code. Explore country-level coverage alongside US states, the District of Columbia, and Canadian provinces.
Federal, national, state, and provincial sources. One consistent structure.
Research across North America can require several layers of legal material: federal legislation, state or provincial rules, court decisions, and regulatory guidance. The relevant combination depends on the jurisdiction and the question.
Lawstronaut retains jurisdiction and source metadata so your application can distinguish those layers and retrieve materials from more than one legal system in a single workflow.
United States
Federal legislation, regulations, court materials, and agency publications, alongside separately indexed coverage for all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Canada
Federal legal materials in English and French where available, plus separate coverage for Alberta, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec.
Mexico and the Caribbean
Mexican legislative, judicial, and regulatory sources, alongside current source coverage for Jamaica and the Dominican Republic.
Cross-border research
Compare materials across countries and subnational jurisdictions while retaining each result’s jurisdiction, publishing source, and available date information.
North American legal data, traced back to its sources
Lawstronaut collects materials from legislation portals, gazettes, legislatures, courts, regulators, public agencies, and other authoritative repositories. Source metadata distinguishes the repository supplying a record from the institution responsible for the underlying material.
- United States Code, eCFR, Federal Register, Congress.gov, and GovInfo
- Supreme Court of the United States and other covered federal court websites
- US agencies and regulators, including the SEC, FTC, EPA, and Department of Labor
- CourtListener, an additional repository for US court materials
- Justice Laws Website, Canada Gazette, and Canadian parliamentary sources
- Supreme Court of Canada, Federal Court, and Federal Court of Appeal
- Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and other covered Canadian regulators
- Mexico’s Diario Oficial de la Federación, Chamber of Deputies, and Senate
- Mexico’s Supreme Court, Federal Administrative Justice Tribunal, and electoral tribunal
- Covered state and provincial sources, plus source portals for Jamaica and the Dominican Republic
North American legal source types covered
Search the source material needed to build legal research, regulatory intelligence, compliance, and AI products across North America.
Legislation & Regulations
Federal and national acts, codes, regulations, gazette publications, and covered state or provincial legislation, normalized with source metadata.
Legislative History
Bills, amendments, congressional and parliamentary materials, and explanatory documents where available for the relevant portal.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Guidance, consultations, decisions, policy materials, and enforcement documents from covered regulators and public authorities.
Case Law
Judgments and decisions from covered courts and judicial repositories, with source links and jurisdiction metadata. Availability and historical depth vary by source.
One North American legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query laws, regulations, court decisions, guidance, and enforcement materials across North America through a REST API. Filter by jurisdiction, source portal, issuing authority, document type, language, status, and date; retrieve structured metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and version information where available.
GET /v2/contents?iso=US&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect compatible AI agents to North American legal materials through Lawstronaut MCP. Retrieve source material during a conversation or workflow, with jurisdiction, source links, and available retrieval metadata.
Cross-jurisdictional research
Run a research task across selected North American countries, US states, and Canadian provinces. Retrieve results in a consistent structure while preserving jurisdiction and source context.
Horizon scanning
Monitor publications and updates across selected North American jurisdictions and source portals. Use available publication, effective-date, last-updated, and version metadata to investigate changes.
EXAMPLE RESEARCH WORKFLOW
Which sources should I consult to compare employee privacy requirements in California, Ontario, and Mexico?
An AI agent can use Lawstronaut to retrieve materials for US_CA, CA_ON, and MX, then examine relevant US and Canadian federal sources as needed. Results can be grouped by jurisdiction and source so the researcher can review the legislation, guidance, and court materials available for each part of the question.
Illustrative workflow · US_CA, CA_ON, MX, US, CA · Coverage varies by source
A consistent foundation for North American legal research
North American legal information is distributed across federal and national institutions, state and provincial publishers, courts, regulators, and repositories. Sources differ in language, identifiers, publication format, and historical depth. A useful research workflow needs to preserve those distinctions while making the material accessible.
Lawstronaut provides a shared data structure for metadata, source links, available text, timestamps, and version information. Your software or AI agent can work across jurisdictions without maintaining a separate integration for every source.
Built for teams working across North American jurisdictions
Legaltech companies
Add North American legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction source pipeline.
AI builders
Ground AI answers in current North American legal text, official source links, and retrieval metadata instead of relying only on model training data.
Compliance and GRC teams
Monitor legal and regulatory materials across the North American markets in which the business operates, with filters for jurisdiction, topic, authority, and date.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users a consistent research layer across national, federal, state, and provincial sources through internal tools and AI agents.
Frequently asked questions about North American legal data
Start building with North American legal data
Connect your software or AI agent to legal sources across the United States, Canada, Mexico, and covered Caribbean jurisdictions through Lawstronaut’s API and MCP.