SherlockRamos/jurisdb-legal-documents

JurisDB - Brazilian Legal Documents Dataset

Dataset Description

This dataset contains a comprehensive collection of Brazilian legal documents, including legislation (federal and state laws) and jurisprudence (court rulings and summaries from TSE, STJ, STF, and TNU).

Dataset Structure

.
├── legislacao_grifada_e_anotada_atualiz_em_01_01_2026/
│   ├── leis_estaduais/
│   ├── leis_federais/
│   └── ...
└── sumulas_tse_stj_stf_e_tnu_atualiz_01_01_2026_2/
    ├── STF/
    ├── STJ/
    └── ...

Legislation Directory

Contains federal and state laws with annotations and highlights:

• Federal laws (Leis Federais)
• State laws (Leis Estaduais from various Brazilian states)
• Organized by legal category (administrativo, civil, constitucional, etc.)

Summaries Directory (Súmulas)

Contains court summaries from:

• STF - Supremo Tribunal Federal (Federal Supreme Court)
• STJ - Superior Tribunal de Justiça (Superior Court of Justice)
• TSE - Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (Superior Electoral Court)
• TNU - Turma Nacional de Uniformização (National Uniformization Panel)

Supported Languages

• Portuguese (Brazil)

Dataset Details

Files

• Format: DOCX, PDF, TXT
• Total Files: 1,212 legal documents
• Size: ~225 MB

Content

The documents cover various areas of Brazilian law:

• Administrative Law
• Civil Law
• Constitutional Law
• Criminal Law
• Consumer Law
• Electoral Law
• Environmental Law
• International Law
• Labor Law
• Tax Law

Usage

This dataset is designed for:

• Training and evaluating legal text processing models
• RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems
• Legal document classification
• Question answering systems for Brazilian law
• Legal text search and retrieval

License

This dataset is released under the MIT License.

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

@dataset{jurisdb_legal_documents,
  title = {JurisDB - Brazilian Legal Documents Dataset},
  year = {2026},
  author = {JurisDB Project},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/jurisdb-legal-documents}}
}

Acknowledgments

This dataset contains Brazilian legal documents and is intended for research and educational purposes.