LDS — AI infrastructure for the European legal data space

Overview

Legal professionals need AI tools they control — grounded in verified legal data, not scraped approximations. The Legal DataSpace (LDS) is the first European data space dedicated to legal data: a sovereign digital commons federating lawyers, legal-tech companies, institutions and researchers, so the profession builds and controls its own AI tools rather than being displaced by them. The starting ecosystem is France’s legal profession — beginning with the CNB (Conseil national des barreaux) — and widening from there.

Alien Intelligence provides the core technology that makes LDS natively AI-ready: legal MCP servers giving agents unified, machine-readable access to French and European legal texts, case law and doctrine; an AI gateway connecting sovereign legal sources directly to agents; and data-contract tooling that enforces terms automatically — every answer auditable and traceable to verified legal data, with lawyers in the loop. Copyfair-style licences are one of the planned extensions for rights-holders contributing content.

My role

I deliver Alien’s technology inside the project: deploying and adapting the core stack — MCP access, gateway, contract tooling — to the data space’s governance and the needs of its legal users.

Where it stands

The data space is operational and growing its partner base; Alien’s infrastructure layer is deployed within it. A full write-up follows as the public services open up. The same principles drive the OpenAIRE MCP and Gallica / BnF work.