Swiss Law Collection

Legal domains — harmonized (federal + cantonal)#

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Domain: Enacted from to

One taxonomy for federal and cantonal law (LexFind "domaine juridique"). Click a tile to zoom and to enable the secondary split (available for the two top tree levels, cantonal laws). Labels in de/fr/it: categories API.

Cantonal laws explorer — linked charts#

From to Click a canton or a type to cross-filter — all charts and the concordat table stay in sync. Years are enactment years: every law counts under the year of its original act, not its latest amendment (a 1970 concordat amended in 2015 counts as 1970). Federal law is in the domains chart above.

Laws by canton#

Instrument types#

Laws by enactment year (stacked by type)#

Cantonal acts by canton and legal domain#

Methodology (intercantonal agreements): totals count canton memberships, not distinct treaties — each agreement counts once per signatory canton whose collection publishes it (a 26-canton concordat counts 26), matching the chstat.ch methodology. Derived from LexFind. This is a different counting unit from the year chart above, which counts published copies — a canton that signed but never published its own copy counts here and not there; both totals are shown in the table footer. For distinct agreements with their signing cantons use “Agreements CSV (signing cantons)”.

Legislative activity — publications and revisions#