👨🏼‍⚖️ Kanun

A collection of Danish legal texts from retsinformation.dk.

Structure

Column	Description
uuid	A universally unique identifier for each row in the dataset.
jurisdiction	Capitalized ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code representing the country or jurisdiction.
language	Non-capitalized ISO 639-1 code representing the language of the document.
type	Type of the document (e.g., legislative act, amending act, consolidated act, etc.). See the types here
status	Represents the document’s current validity status: valid or historic.
title_main	The title of the document.
title_alternative	The popular name for the document (if there is one).
text	Text content of the document.
source_url	The source URL of the web page where the document is published.
source	The origin of the document, currently only retsinformation.
hash	A SHA-256 hash of the HTML.
date_publication	The date when the document was published.
date_signature	The date when the document was signed.
version_date	The version date of when the document was scraped.

Types of Documents

legislative_act, amending_act, consolidated_act, data_consolidation, official_publication, implementing_act, implementing_measure_gl_fo, regulation, executive_order, amending_regulation, executive_regulation, international_regulation, administrative_guidance_1, administrative_guidance_2, administrative_guidance_change_2, tax_guidance, guidance, annotation, letter, letter_circular, letter_open, miscellaneous, bill_as_presented, written_submission_of_bill, report_on_bill, addition_to_report, report_on_bill_details, amendment_second_reading_l, supplementary_report_on_bill, addition_to_supplementary_report, amendment_third_reading, bill_as_passed, independent_report, resolution_proposal_as_presented, written_submission_of_resolution, report_on_resolution_proposal, report_on_resolution_details, amendment_second_reading_b, resolution_proposal_as_passed, decision, final_administrative_decision, statement, court_judgment

Note about Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction is often Denmark (DK), but in some cases, it may apply exclusively to Greenland (GL) or the Faroe Islands (FO).

If the jurisdiction is listed as DK, it may include Denmark, Greenland, or the Faroe Islands, depending on the specific title or content.

Credit

Huge thanks to the following individuals for their contributions:

• Louis Brulé Naudet for his work on HFforLegal. The structure of nearly every column in this dataset mirrors his.

  Naudet, L. B. (2024). The Laws, centralizing legal texts for better use. Hugging Face. https://huggingface.co/datasets/HFforLegal/laws

• Mohammed Macow for teaching me how to build great pipelines with an emphasis on observability.

• Mikail Yilmaz for his support and insights.

Citation

@misc{kanun2025dataset,
  title={Kanun},
  author={Jasan Farah},
  year={2025},
  url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/jasan/kanun},
}

Licensing

Danish Copyright law