United Arab Emirates legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Access 19,934+ Emirati laws, regulations, court decisions and regulatory materials from UAE federal government, judicial and regulatory institutions across 24 official portals. Search Emirati 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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United Arab Emirates legal records
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official Emirati source portals
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issuing authorities
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Which UAE law governs commercial companies at the federal level?
Federal Decree-Law No. 32 of 2021 on Commercial Companies, issued by the UAE Cabinet. It took effect on 2 January 2022 and was last amended on 1 October 2025.
Source: General Secretariat of the UAE Cabinet — uaelegislation.gov.ae/en/legislations/1542
Retrieved: 2026-08-05 · Version: 1 · Cited in-turn
The official Emirati sources we cover
Lawstronaut collects Emirati legal materials from official federal government, legislative, court, and regulator 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.
Source categories: federal legislation and official publications · the Cabinet and government portals · the Federal National Council · the Ministry of Justice and courts · financial regulators · economy and consumer-protection bodies · cybersecurity and data-protection authorities · anti-money-laundering and integrity bodies
- UAE Federal Legislation (uaelegislation.gov.ae)
- UAE Cabinet (uaecabinet.ae)
- Federal National Council (almajles.gov.ae)
- UAE Ministry of Justice (moj.gov.ae)
- UAE Presidential Court / Diwan (diwan.gov.ae)
- UAE Central Bank (centralbank.ae)
- Securities and Commodities Authority (sca.gov.ae)
- UAE Ministry of Economy and Tourism (moet.gov.ae)
- Cyber Security Council (csc.gov.ae)
- National Committee for Combatting Money Laundering (namlcftc.gov.ae)
- UAE Accountability Authority (uaeaa.gov.ae)
- The Official Platform of the UAE Government (u.ae)
Emirati legal source types covered
Emirati legal coverage includes primary legislation, secondary legislation, regulatory materials, court decisions, guidance, enforcement documents, and legislative history where available.
Legislation & Regulations
Federal decree-laws, federal laws, Cabinet resolutions, and ministerial decisions, taken directly from the UAE Federal Legislation portal (uaelegislation.gov.ae, Arabic and English) and the UAE Cabinet.
Legislative History
Bills, deliberations, and legislative materials from the Federal National Council where available, version by version, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Regulations, circulars, directives, and decisions from Emirati regulators such as the UAE Central Bank, the Securities and Commodities Authority, the Cyber Security Council, and the National Committee for Combatting Money Laundering.
Case Law
Court judgments and cassation rulings from official Emirati sources, including the UAE Ministry of Justice, where available.
One Emirati legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Emirati 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.
GET /v2/contents?iso=AE&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Emirati legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Emirati materials — deployable in minutes, with no integration work.
AI Agent Integration
Give your legal AI agent same-turn provenance: it retrieves current Emirati 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 Emirati 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 Emirati 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 Emirati legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in UAE law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Emirati sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal Emirati legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for Emirati legal research
Emirati legal information is spread across the federal legislation portal, the Cabinet, the Federal National Council, the Ministry of Justice and courts, and a range of financial and sector regulators — often published in Arabic first, with English translations on some portals. For humans, that means slow research. For AI systems, it's a bigger problem: fragmented source access, bilingual 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 United Arab Emirates legal coverage
The United Arab Emirates is a federal, civil-law jurisdiction of seven emirates, with Islamic Sharia as a principal source of legislation. Federal legislation — decree-laws, federal laws, Cabinet resolutions, and ministerial decisions — is issued through the Cabinet and published on the UAE Federal Legislation portal (uaelegislation.gov.ae) in Arabic, with English translations of many instruments. Legislative deliberation runs through the Federal National Council. Case law and cassation rulings are published by the UAE Ministry of Justice, and regulatory guidance sits with bodies such as the UAE Central Bank, the Securities and Commodities Authority, the Cyber Security Council, and the National Committee for Combatting Money Laundering. Arabic is the official language of legislation, with English versions available on several government portals.
UAE law moves quickly: flagship instruments such as the Commercial Companies Law and the Personal Data Protection Law are amended on a regular cadence, and regulators publish a steady stream of circulars and decisions. Financial free zones — the DIFC and ADGM — operate their own common-law frameworks alongside the federal system. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps an Emirati legal research answer correct today.
Built for
Legaltech companies
Build Emirati legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor Emirati regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Emirati legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Emirati legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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