corpus iuris helvetici · mdcccxlviii →
The Swiss legal record, indexed.
The index, in numbers
| 33,000+ | laws — federal, all 26 cantons, intercantonal | repealed law kept as history |
| 394,000 | articles, individually addressable | German · French · Italian |
| 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 |
One record, connected
Current, article-precise text of every law in force — and every version before it, each with its exact validity window.
From first consultation through committee and chamber debate to the enacted article: a law's whole genesis, joined into one chain.
Cross-references, amendment events, and citation edges — the record as a graph, not a pile of documents.
Ahead
Decisions of the federal and cantonal courts, indexed and connected to the articles they construe — precedent joined to the law it interprets, not shelved beside it.
Bring your own documents — internal memos, decisions, notes — into a private layer: queryable alongside the law, connected to it, and offline by design. Nothing leaves your machine; privacy here is architecture, not a policy.
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.