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The Maulkuerfgesetz (Luxembourgish for "Muzzle law") (German: Maulkorbgesetz; French: Loi muselière) was a proposed 1937 law in Luxembourg. Officially, it was entitled the "Law for the Defence of the Political and Social Order" (French: Projet de loi pour la défense de l'ordre politique et social) but was nicknamed Maulkuerfgesetz by its opponents. The law would have allowed the Luxembourgish government to ban the Communist Party and dissolve any political organisation which they believed might endanger the constitutional institutions. The members of these parties or organisations would be stripped of their political offices and could not be employed by the state or by local governments.
The law was rejected in a referendum on 6 June 1937, and therefore never came into force.