All of Swiss law. Every version. Connected.
What did the article say in March 2003? Which act changed it, and when? The index holds each law's full version history, pinned to exact validity dates, together with the records that made it.
The index, in numbers
| 33,000+ | laws: federal, all 26 cantons, intercantonal | repealed law kept as history |
| 50,000 | validity windows, one per version of every federal law | as-of queries by design |
| 394,000 | articles, individually addressable | German · French · Italian |
| 82,000 | article-to-article cross-references, dated | the law as a graph |
| 49,000 | official acts, back to 1848 | every amendment an event |
| 19,800 | international treaties with per-country state | who ratified, since when |
| 67,000 | parliamentary dossiers | 1978 → today |
| 346,000 | verbatim debate transcripts | in the language spoken |
| 714 | popular votes since 1848 | voters' booklets from 1950 |
| 2,110 | communes, with merger lineage back to 1850 | the communal layer, prepared |
| 700 | courts and judicial authorities, as a hierarchy | Confederation down to the enforcement office |
| 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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