Samoa legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Samoan Acts, subsidiary legislation, and court decisions live across the official Samoa Legislation database maintained by the Office of the Attorney General, the Legislative Assembly (the Fono), 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 Samoa coverage is not yet live; Team and Enterprise customers can request priority onboarding of the sources below.
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What is the founding constitutional instrument of Samoa?
The Constitution of the Independent State of Samoa 1960 — adopted on 28 October 1960 and in force since independence on 1 January 1962 — establishes Samoa's parliamentary system and recognises Samoan custom (fa'a Samoa) alongside the received English common law.
Source: Office of the Attorney General (Samoa) — legislation.gov.ws
Illustrative — Samoa coverage is not yet live in the corpus; citation shown from the official source.
The official Samoan sources on our roadmap
Lawstronaut structures Samoan legal materials from official government, ministry, court, and regulator sources. Once Samoa 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 · the legislature · government ministries and agencies · regulators · courts and tribunals · gazette and publication sources
- Samoa Legislation — Office of the Attorney General (legislation.gov.ws)
- Legislative Assembly of Samoa (the Fono)
- Samoa Gazette / Savali (government publications)
- Ministry of Justice and Courts Administration (MJCA)
- Supreme Court of Samoa
- Court of Appeal of Samoa
- Land and Titles Court
- Central Bank of Samoa
- Samoa International Finance Authority (SIFA)
Samoan legal source types we structure
Samoan legal coverage will include primary legislation, secondary legislation, regulatory materials, court decisions, guidance, enforcement documents, and legislative history where available.
Legislation & Regulations
The Constitution 1960, Acts of the Legislative Assembly, and subsidiary legislation — regulations, orders, and rules — taken directly from the official Samoa Legislation database and official publications, published in English and Samoan.
Legislative History
Bills, parliamentary papers, and amendment records from the Legislative Assembly (the Fono) where available, version by version, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Guidance, notices, directives, and enforcement materials from Samoan regulators such as the Central Bank of Samoa, the Samoa International Finance Authority (SIFA), and the Office of the Regulator, where available.
Case Law
Court and tribunal decisions from official and authoritative Samoan sources, including the Supreme Court of Samoa, the Court of Appeal, the District Court, and the Land and Titles Court, where available.
One Samoan legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Samoan 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. Samoa coverage is being onboarded — the endpoint below is live and will return records as coverage lands.
GET /v2/contents?iso=WS&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Samoan legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Samoan 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 Samoan 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 Samoan 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 Samoan 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 Samoan legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Samoan law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Samoan sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal Samoan legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for Samoan legal research
Samoan legal information is spread across the official legislation database, the Legislative Assembly, ministries, regulators, and the courts — including the Land and Titles Court, which administers custom-based law. 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 Samoa legal coverage
Samoa is a mixed-law jurisdiction: English common law received at independence operates alongside Samoan customary law (fa'a Samoa), under the Constitution of the Independent State of Samoa 1960. Primary legislation is enacted by the Legislative Assembly (the Fono) and consolidated in the official Samoa Legislation database maintained by the Office of the Attorney General, with formal notices in the Samoa Gazette. Case law spans the Supreme Court of Samoa, the Court of Appeal, and the District Court, while the Land and Titles Court determines matters of customary land and chiefly (matai) titles. Financial and offshore regulation sits with the Central Bank of Samoa and the Samoa International Finance Authority. Legal materials are published in English and Samoan, both official languages.
Samoan law has undergone significant recent change: the 2020 judicial reforms — the Constitution Amendment Act 2020, the Land and Titles Act 2020, and the Judicature Act 2020 — restructured the courts and elevated the standing of the Land and Titles Court, so citations to pre-2020 provisions can be wrong. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps a Samoa legal research answer correct today.
Built for
Legaltech companies
Build Samoan legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor Samoan regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Samoan legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Samoan legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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Tell us which Samoan sources you need first — legislation, regulators, or case law — and we'll prioritise onboarding of official Samoan legal data.