All of Swiss law. Every version. Connected.
What did the article say in March 2003? Which amending act changed it, and which dispatch explains why? Collecting laws is the easy part. The index keeps every version with exact validity dates and joins the acts, materials and references of Confederation, cantons and communes into a single, traceable graph.
The index, in numbers
| 33,000+ | laws of the Confederation, the cantons and first communes, together with the concordats | repealed law kept as history |
| 393,000 | articles, individually addressable | German · French · Italian |
| 100,000+ | validity windows across federal and cantonal versions | as-of queries by design |
| 87,000 | chronological law-making acts | Confederation since 1848, cantons back to 1804 |
| 1,440,000 | dated connections between acts, versions and materials | the actual value of the index |
| 496,000 | documents of the law-making record | consultations, dispatches, cantonal materials, verbatim debates |
| 23,000 | commune-to-authority competency links | which court has jurisdiction? |
Live tools
Enter a locality or postcode: the index shows the courts and authorities competent for your commune, legal basis by legal basis.
The whole court organization as one hierarchy: from the international instance through Confederation and cantons down to the offices.
Under construction (beta). Not legal advice: only the official publications are authoritative. All information without guarantee.
One record, connected
The current, article-precise text of every law in force, and every earlier version with its exact validity window. The index answers for any date, not just for today.
From the first consultation to the enacted article: drafts, reports, chamber debates, votes of parliament and people, joined into one traceable chain.
Which ordinance rests on which article of which statute; which articles cite each other, and during which years. Constitution, statute, ordinance: the whole hierarchy is a dated graph, not a pile of documents.
Ahead
The organization is in place: 700 courts and authorities as one hierarchy, with competency per commune. Next come the decisions themselves: pooled per court and connected to the articles they construe.
Bring your own documents into a private layer: memos, decisions, notes. Metadata connects each one automatically to the laws and court decisions it touches, queryable alongside the public record, and offline by design. Nothing leaves your machine.
In active development.
lexhelvetica is built from the official Swiss publication record, layer by verified layer, as a durable and independently queryable index. A public face will grow here as the work lands.
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