README.md

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license: eupl-1.1
tags:
  - legal
pretty_name: European Court of Human Rights - decisions
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European Court of Human Rights Decisions Dataset

This dataset contains 9,820 decisions from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) scraped from HUDOC, the official database of ECHR case law.

Dataset Description

• Source: HUDOC Database (https://hudoc.echr.coe.int)
• Size: 9,820 court decisions
• Language: Predominantly English
• Format: CSV file with two columns:
  • index: Sequential counter identifier for each decision
  • text: Full text of the court decision

Data Usage

This dataset is valuable for:

• Building legal vector databases for RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
• Training Large Language Models focused on human rights law
• Creating synthetic legal datasets
• Legal text analysis and research
• NLP tasks in international human rights domain

Legal Status

The dataset contains publicly available court decisions from HUDOC database. The European Court of Human Rights decisions are official documents and are available for public use.

Dataset Statistics

• Number of decisions: 9,820 (until 31/12/2024)
• Language distribution: Predominantly English