Vbpl: Vietnamese Legal Documents from 1992 Onwards

Vbpl is a corpus of Vietnamese legal documents enacted from 1992 onwards, systematically collected from the official national database of the Vietnamese Ministry of Justice. The dataset includes full text in Markdown format along with metadata such as titles and effective status. It was authored by doanhieung and last updated on 2025-06-14.

Use Cases

• Legal text analysis based on the full text of Vietnamese legal documents.
• Document relationship mapping based on the metadata describing connections between documents.
• Temporal analysis of legal changes based on documents enacted from 1992 onwards.
• Status tracking of legal effectiveness based on the 'effective status' metadata.

Strengths

• Documents are systematically collected from vbpl.vn, the official national database of the Vietnamese Ministry of Justice.
• The corpus includes documents enacted from 1992 onwards, providing a multi-decade temporal scope.
• Data includes associated metadata such as titles, effective status, and relationships to other documents.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2025-06-14 11:20:22; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

vbpl.vn, the official national database of legal documents from the Vietnamese Ministry of Justice.

Collection Method

Systematically collected from the official source.

Time Range

1992 onwards

Freshness

Last updated 2025-06-14 11:20:22.

Geography

Vietnam