Panama legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Access 576+ Panamanian legal records — laws, regulations, advisory opinions and official commentary — drawn from the Procuraduría de la Administración, Panama's legal adviser to the public administration. Search Panamanian legal data directly or connect it to your AI agent, legaltech product or research workflow through Lawstronaut's API and MCP server. Every record is linked to its official source and structured in the same format used across more than 150 jurisdictions.
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Which Panamanian law governs the general administrative procedure and organizes the Procuraduría de la Administración?
Ley 38 de 31 de julio de 2000 (as amended) approves the organic statute of the Procuraduría de la Administración, regulates administrative conciliation, and sets out the general administrative procedure applicable to the entities of the Panamanian State.
Source: Procuraduría de la Administración — https://www.procuraduria-admon.gob.pa/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Ley38_mod.pdf
Retrieved: 2026-09-22 · Version: 1 · Cited in-turn
The official Panamanian sources we cover
Lawstronaut collects Panamanian legal materials from official government sources. 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. Panama coverage currently centers on the Procuraduría de la Administración and is actively expanding.
Source categories: administrative law · public service law · local and regional law · anti-corruption and integrity law · general legislation
- Procuraduría de la Administración (procuraduria-admon.gob.pa)
- Asamblea Nacional
- Órgano Judicial — Corte Suprema de Justicia
- Ministerio de Comercio e Industrias (MICI)
- Superintendencia de Bancos de Panamá (SBP)
- Superintendencia del Mercado de Valores (SMV)
- Autoridad Nacional de los Servicios Públicos (ASEP)
- Autoridad de Protección al Consumidor y Defensa de la Competencia (ACODECO)
- Autoridad Nacional de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información (ANTAI)
- Dirección General de Ingresos (DGI)
Panamanian legal source types covered
Panamanian legal coverage includes primary legislation, regulatory materials, advisory opinions, official commentary, and legislative history where available, with case law added as coverage expands.
Legislation & Regulations
Leyes and reglamentos such as Ley 38 de 2000, together with internal regulations, taken directly from the official publications of the Procuraduría de la Administración.
Legislative History
Proyectos de ley and reform materials that the Procuraduría de la Administración sustains before the Asamblea Nacional — including the modernization of the general administrative-procedure framework — where available, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Advisory opinions (consultas), circulars, guidelines, and official commentary from the Procuraduría de la Administración, Panama's legal adviser and conciliator for the public administration.
Case Law
Administrative and jurisdictional decisions from official Panamanian sources, including the Sala Tercera de lo Contencioso Administrativo of the Corte Suprema de Justicia, where available.
One Panamanian legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Panamanian laws, regulations, advisory opinions, and official 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.
GET /v2/contents?iso=PA&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Panamanian legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Panamanian materials — deployable in minutes, with no integration work.
AI Agent Integration
Give your legal AI agent same-turn provenance: it retrieves current Panamanian 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 Panamanian 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 can do with Panamanian 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 Panamanian legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Panamanian law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Panamanian sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal Panamanian legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for Panamanian legal research
Panamanian legal information is spread across the Gaceta Oficial, the Asamblea Nacional, the courts, ministries, regulators, and bodies such as the Procuraduría de la Administración. 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 Panama legal coverage
Panama is a civil-law jurisdiction with a unified national legal system. Primary legislation is enacted by the Asamblea Nacional and published in the Gaceta Oficial, while the Órgano Judicial — headed by the Corte Suprema de Justicia, whose Sala Tercera hears administrative disputes — decides litigation. The Procuraduría de la Administración serves as the legal adviser and conciliator for the public administration, issuing advisory opinions (consultas) and shaping administrative-law reform. Records are published in Spanish. Lawstronaut's current Panama coverage centers on the Procuraduría de la Administración and is expanding to further official portals.
Panamanian law moves quickly: Ley 38 de 2000, the backbone of the general administrative procedure, is under active reform 25 years after enactment, a framework cybersecurity law is under debate in the Asamblea Nacional, and Ley 81 de 2019 on the protection of personal data continues to be implemented — so citations to superseded provisions can simply be wrong. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps a Panama legal research answer correct today.
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Build Panamanian legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor Panamanian regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Panamanian legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Panamanian legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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