Tw Law: Bilingual Taiwan Statutes and Orders from MOJ API

Encompassing between 100,000 and 1,000,000 records of structured legal data synchronized from the Taiwan Ministry of Justice (MOJ) Open API. Curated by Liang Hsun Huang, it captures all currently effective laws and executive orders in both Traditional Chinese and English. The repository is updated weekly and uses the UpdateDate field to ensure only new or modified legal texts are added.

Use Cases

• Cross-lingual legal alignment using the zh and en versions of statutes
• Temporal analysis of legislative changes using the UpdateDate field
• Legal entity recognition within the structured Law and Order text fields

Strengths

• Bilingual support in Traditional Chinese and English
• Weekly automated synchronization with official government sources
• Deduplicated via UpdateDate to ensure data integrity

Limitations

• Dependency on the MOJ Open API uptime and data accuracy
• English translations may lag behind Chinese updates for newer regulations
• License is categorized as 'Other', requiring manual verification of Taiwan government open data terms

Provenance

Source

Taiwan Ministry of Justice (MOJ) Open API

Collection Method

Automated synchronization via the tw-law-sync tool

Freshness

Weekly automated updates synchronized with the official government API.

Geography

Taiwan