HUDOC Researcher

The judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, paragraph by paragraph: full-text and semantic search, citation checking, Cites / Cited by and statistics.

Live site: https://lszoszk.github.io/ECHR-Dashboard/

This repository holds the website only (docs/, published by .github/workflows/deploy-pages.yml). The data pipeline, the search API and the deployment tools are kept in a separate, non-public repository; how the data was built and checked is set out in the Methodology. Questions, internal documentation and access for research: [email protected].

Developed by Łukasz Szoszkiewicz and Sebastian Marcisz.

Data

The paragraph-level corpus (judgments, paragraphs with numbers and section labels, citation links) is published on Hugging Face: lszoszk/ecthr-judgments.

Licensing

• Website code: PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0; research, education, non-profit and personal use are permitted. See LICENSE.
• Curated dataset (segmentation, paragraph numbers, section labels, metadata, citation links): CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. See LICENSE-DATA.
• The judgments are © Council of Europe / European Court of Human Rights, reused under the Court's terms for HUDOC content and not re-licensed by this project. See NOTICE. This project is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Court, and the site is a research aid, not legal advice.

Citation

Szoszkiewicz, Ł., & Marcisz, S. (2026). HUDOC Researcher — ECtHR Case-Law Search & RAG [Computer software]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21319703

When citing a judgment paragraph, cite the authoritative HUDOC record and paragraph as well.