README.md

metadata

pretty_name: Laws of the UAE (federal official)
license: other
license_name: uae-official
language:
  - ar
  - en
task_categories:
  - text-retrieval
tags:
  - legal
  - law
  - uae
  - federal
  - official-texts
size_categories:
  - n<1K
configs:
  - config_name: laws
    data_files: data/laws.parquet
    default: true
  - config_name: articles
    data_files: data/articles.parquet

Laws of the UAE (federal official)

Research snapshot of official legislation collected from UAE official legislation portal.

Not legal advice. Official gazettes / government portals prevail over this corpus.

Snapshot

Field	Value
Snapshot date	2026-09-04
Coverage	federal-laws snapshot
Source	UAE official legislation portal
Collector	scrapers/collect_ae.py
Laws / instruments	237
Articles	12201
Language	ar, en
Jurisdiction	United Arab Emirates
License	uae-official

Contents

• data/laws.parquet — one row per instrument (id, title, full text, ELI, dates, status, identifiers, article count, source URL).
• data/articles.parquet — one row per article/section (law_id, article number, title, text, source URL).
• scrapers/collect_ae.py — research collector used to build this snapshot.
• scrapers/common.py — shared collector helpers.

License / reuse

Official government / gazette texts; reuse per public-sector terms of the source portal. This packaging, metadata, and collector script are provided for research.

This dataset is not an official consolidation and is not legal advice. The official source prevails.

Notes

uaelegislation.gov.ae federal; archive_fallbacks of official URLs only; article re-split deepen