Solothurn legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Solothurn laws, regulations, and court decisions live across the consolidated cantonal law collection (Bereinigte Gesetzessammlung des Kantons Solothurn, BGS), the cantonal gazette (Amtsblatt), the Kantonsrat, cantonal offices, and the courts — within the framework of Swiss federal law published on Fedlex. 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 Solothurn coverage is not yet live; Team and Enterprise customers can request priority onboarding of the sources below.
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Which instrument establishes the constitutional framework of the Canton of Solothurn?
The Constitution of the Canton of Solothurn of 8 June 1986 (Verfassung des Kantons Solothurn), as amended, is the cantonal constitution setting out Solothurn's governmental structure — the Kantonsrat, the Regierungsrat, and the cantonal courts. It is published in the consolidated cantonal law collection (Bereinigte Gesetzessammlung des Kantons Solothurn) and listed in the Swiss federal systematic collection as SR 131.221.
Source: Bereinigte Gesetzessammlung des Kantons Solothurn (BGS) — bgs.so.ch; Fedlex — fedlex.admin.ch
Illustrative — Solothurn coverage is not yet live in the corpus; citation shown from the official source.
The official Solothurn sources on our roadmap
Lawstronaut structures Solothurn legal materials from official cantonal government, parliament, court, and regulator sources, alongside the Swiss federal law that applies in the canton. Once Solothurn 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: cantonal legislation collection · cantonal gazette · cantonal parliament and government · cantonal courts · cantonal regulators and offices · federal law portal and federal courts
- Bereinigte Gesetzessammlung des Kantons Solothurn (BGS)
- Amtsblatt des Kantons Solothurn
- Kantonsrat Solothurn (Cantonal Parliament)
- Regierungsrat & Staatskanzlei Solothurn
- Obergericht des Kantons Solothurn
- Verwaltungsgericht des Kantons Solothurn
- Kantonales Steueramt Solothurn
- Fedlex — Swiss Federal Law Portal
- Swiss Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgericht)
Solothurn legal source types we structure
Solothurn legal coverage will include the cantonal constitution, primary and secondary cantonal legislation, regulatory materials, court decisions, guidance, enforcement documents, and legislative history where available — alongside the Swiss federal law that applies in the canton.
Legislation & Regulations
The cantonal constitution (Kantonsverfassung), cantonal laws (Gesetze), ordinances (Verordnungen), and executive decrees, taken directly from the Bereinigte Gesetzessammlung des Kantons Solothurn (BGS) and the Amtsblatt, plus applicable Swiss federal statutes from Fedlex.
Legislative History
Bills, motions, and parliamentary materials from the Kantonsrat Solothurn where available, version by version, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Directives, circulars, notices, and decisions from cantonal authorities such as the Kantonales Steueramt Solothurn and other cantonal offices.
Case Law
Decisions of the Obergericht des Kantons Solothurn and the Verwaltungsgericht des Kantons Solothurn, together with applicable Swiss Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgericht) rulings, where available.
One Solothurn legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Solothurn 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. Solothurn coverage is being onboarded — the endpoint below is live and will return records as coverage lands.
GET /v2/contents?iso=CH_SO&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Solothurn legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Solothurn 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 Solothurn 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 Solothurn 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 Solothurn 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 Solothurn legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Solothurn law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Solothurn sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal Solothurn legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for Solothurn legal research
Solothurn legal information is spread across the cantonal law collection, the cantonal gazette, the Kantonsrat, cantonal offices and regulators, the cantonal courts, and the Swiss federal law portal. 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 Solothurn legal coverage
Solothurn is a canton of Switzerland in the country's northwest, operating within the Swiss civil-law tradition. Federal law — the Swiss Civil Code, the Code of Obligations, and federal statutes — applies across the canton and is published on Fedlex, while cantonal law sits in the Bereinigte Gesetzessammlung des Kantons Solothurn (BGS) and is announced in the Amtsblatt. The cantonal constitution of 8 June 1986 frames the institutions: the Kantonsrat legislates, the Regierungsrat governs through the Staatskanzlei and cantonal offices, and the Obergericht — with its administrative and social-insurance divisions — sits above the district courts (Amtsgerichte), with the Swiss Federal Supreme Court above them. Legal materials are published in German.
Solothurn's cantonal law changes in step with periodic reform: the canton continually revises its tax, planning, and administrative statutes as Swiss federal law evolves, and has modernised its judicial organisation and cantonal ordinances in recent years — so citations to superseded cantonal provisions can be wrong. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps a Solothurn legal research answer correct today.
Built for
Legaltech companies
Build Solothurn legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor Solothurn regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Solothurn legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Solothurn legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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Put Solothurn on the Lawstronaut map
Tell us which Solothurn sources you need first — cantonal legislation, regulators, or case law — and we'll prioritise onboarding of official Solothurn legal data.