Published on 01 January 2026 |
LEX_AMBIENTAL_PAN: A Structured Corpus of Panamanian Environmental Law and Related International Instruments
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Machine-readable corpus of 119 Panamanian environmental legal instruments parsed into 2,955 structured articles with full metadata. Covers national legislation (constitutional provisions, framework laws, sector laws, executive decrees), international conventions ratified by Panama (CBD, CITES, Ramsar, C169 ILO, UNCLOS, Escazú Agreement, BBNJ, etc.), EU instruments relevant to ocean and biodiversity governance, and indigenous peoples' rights instruments (Ngäbe-Buglé, Guna Yala, Emberá, Madungandí, Wargandí, Naso Teribe).Dataset includes:- Structured inventory of 131 instruments (inventario_leyes_pan.json, v4.0) with ECOLEX/FAOLex URIs and official source URLs- 2,955 parsed articles in machine-readable JSON format (119 files)- Multilingual vector embeddings (paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2, 768 dimensions, L2-normalized)- Semantic relationship graph between legal instrumentsDeveloped in support of empirical research on environmental conflict patterns and territorial non-fungibility metrics in Panama.