Projects

Canadian Legal Data

Open-source datasets with the full text of Canadian court and tribunal cases, legislation and regulations. Available for programmatic access via API, MCP, parquet & Hugging Face Dataset formats.

Image of computer code: # load A2AJ Canadian Case Law dataset from datasets import load_dataset import pandas as pd source = "a2aj/canadian-case-law" dataset = load_dataset(source, split="train") df = dataset.to_pandas() df.head()

Student Innovation Grants

Grants for Canadian law students and graduate students in any relevant discipline to pursue law and tech projects that advance access to justice using A2AJ datasets.

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Academic Publications

We share the results of our projects in open-access academic venues to help build enthusiasm for partnerships between legal scholars and technologists.

Image of first page of A2AJ working paper, entitled Accessible text via link.

AI Hub

Free compute, code libraries, fine-tuned language models, and seamless programmatic access to our datasets for researchers and developers pursuing projects related to access to justice.

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Open-Source Prototypes

Prototype open source a2j projects, including privacy-preserving redaction for court documents, automated citation verification for a law journal, and tenant-advocacy analytics for a legal clinic.

Logos for the Refugee Law Lab, the JLSP & CLASP

Legal AI Benchmarks

Benchmarks to evaluate AI models on tasks involving Canadian law, focusing on topics that impact marginalized and low income people.

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