Yemen legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Yemeni laws, regulations, and court decisions live across the Official Gazette of the Republic of Yemen (Al-Jarida al-Rasmiyya), government ministries, the Central Bank, 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 Yemen coverage is not yet live; Team and Enterprise customers can request priority onboarding of the sources below.
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Which Yemeni law sets out the framework for labour relations?
Law No. 5 of 1995 concerning the Labour Code (Qanun al-'Amal), as amended, is the framework statute for individual and collective labour relations in Yemen, published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Yemen.
Source: Official Gazette of the Republic of Yemen (Al-Jarida al-Rasmiyya) — Ministry of Legal Affairs
Illustrative — Yemen coverage is not yet live in the corpus; citation shown from the official source.
The official Yemeni sources on our roadmap
Lawstronaut structures Yemeni legal materials from official government, ministry, court, and regulator sources. Once Yemen 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: gazette and publication sources · government ministries and agencies · the legislature · regulators · courts and tribunals
- Official Gazette of the Republic of Yemen (Al-Jarida al-Rasmiyya)
- Ministry of Legal Affairs
- Ministry of Justice
- House of Representatives (Majlis al-Nuwwab)
- Central Bank of Yemen (CBY)
- Supreme Court of the Republic of Yemen
- Courts of Appeal
Yemeni legal source types we structure
Yemeni legal coverage will include primary legislation, secondary legislation, regulatory materials, court decisions, guidance, enforcement documents, and legislative history where available.
Legislation & Regulations
Laws (qawanin), republican decrees by law (qararat jumhuriyya bi-qanun), presidential and republican decrees, and ministerial regulations and decisions (qararat wizariyya), taken directly from the Official Gazette and official publications.
Legislative History
Draft laws and parliamentary materials from the House of Representatives (Majlis al-Nuwwab) and the Shura Council where available, version by version, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Circulars, notices, decisions, and enforcement materials from Yemeni authorities such as the Central Bank of Yemen and sectoral ministries.
Case Law
Court and tribunal decisions from official Yemeni sources, including the Supreme Court of the Republic of Yemen and the Courts of Appeal, where available.
One Yemeni legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Yemeni 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. Yemen coverage is being onboarded — the endpoint below is live and will return records as coverage lands.
GET /v2/contents?iso=YE&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Yemeni legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Yemeni 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 Yemeni 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 Yemeni 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 Yemeni 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 Yemeni legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Yemeni law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Yemeni sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal Yemeni legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for Yemeni legal research
Yemeni legal information is spread across the Official Gazette, government ministries, the legislature, the Central Bank, courts, and publication sources — and access is further complicated by the ongoing conflict and competing administrations. 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 Yemen legal coverage
Yemen is a mixed-law jurisdiction in which Islamic (Sharia) law is the principal source of legislation, combined with civil-law codes drawn largely from the Egyptian and wider Arab tradition and, in some matters, customary ('urf) law. The modern legal system dates from the 1990 unification of the Yemen Arab Republic (north) and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (south); the Constitution of the Republic of Yemen was adopted in 1991 and amended by referendum in 1994 and 2001. Primary legislation is enacted by the House of Representatives (Majlis al-Nuwwab) and published in the Official Gazette (Al-Jarida al-Rasmiyya); the court system runs from first-instance courts through the Courts of Appeal to the Supreme Court of the Republic of Yemen. Legal materials are published in Arabic.
Yemen's legal landscape is unusually volatile: the armed conflict that escalated from 2014–2015 has disrupted state institutions and produced competing legal administrations between the internationally recognised government and the de facto authorities in Sana'a, so the status and current text of a given instrument can be uncertain. Point-in-time data straight from the official source — with the enacting authority and date attached — is what keeps a Yemen legal research answer defensible today.
Built for
Legaltech companies
Build Yemeni legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor Yemeni regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Yemeni legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Yemeni legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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Put Yemen on the Lawstronaut map
Tell us which Yemeni sources you need first — legislation, regulators, or case law — and we'll prioritise onboarding of official Yemeni legal data.