What lovkart is

Norwegian law, drawn as a map you can follow.

lovkart means "law map." A law is never alone — it has a history, court rulings that interpret it, and detailed rules beneath it. We connect all of that, so you can follow the thread instead of hunting for it.

What it means for you

Ask a question about a Norwegian law and you get the whole picture around it, already linked together.

See how it's really used

Every Supreme Court ruling that has applied a law — so you see what it means in practice, not just what it says on paper.

Understand why it exists

The proposals and expert reports behind a law, so you can see the intent and the reasoning parliament actually weighed.

Find the detailed rules

The regulations that sit under a law and spell out how it works day to day — linked straight from the law itself.

All in one place

The law, the cases, the background and the regulations — connected. No more piecing it together across three separate official websites.

The life of a law, and everything it connects to

A law is made once, then lives for decades — cited by courts, filled in by regulations, changed over time. Lovkart follows every one of those threads.

Background & lawmaking The law Court rulings Regulations
informs goes to voted into law Expert report the research behind it Proposal the government's bill Parliament debated & adopted The law what's in force today applied by the courts detailed by changed or replaced Supreme Court rulings how it's been interpreted Regulations the detailed rules a later law
Every arrow is a real, traceable link in the corpus — you can start anywhere and follow it in any direction.

What's on the map

The complete public record of Norwegian law, from 1687 to today — indexed and cross-linked.

776
laws in force
6,053
Supreme Court decisions
3,516
national regulations
10,683
proposals, reports & studies

Held together by more than 60,000 links — every one showing how a law connects to the cases, the reasoning and the rules around it.