Website for the Bundesarbeitsgericht (Federal Labour Court), the highest federal court in Germany for cases concerning all aspects of employment law. The site is made freely available on the internet and includes background information on the history, organisation and structure of the court, together with details of the appointment of judges, lay members and research associates.
A privately maintained non commercial site established in July 2001 by Stefan Gross, a German tax specialist. The site provides guided links to a wide range of tax related sites, arranged under headings covering news, e-billing, international tax, practice tools for practitioners and legislation. The emphasis is on tax and taxation matters in Germany. Tax Links is a freely accessible service but some listed sources may be restricted. The site can be viewed in German only.
This is the website of Forschungsgesellschaft Flucht und Migration (FFM), a Berlin-based research centre focusing on refugee movements. Founded in 1994, FFM researches the situation of refugees and migrants in various Central and Eastern European countries. Main research areas are refugee interests and rights, German legislation with respect to refugees and migrants, the trans-national nature of refugees' and migrants' own organisations amongst others.
This site provides access to full text law reports of the United States Court of Restitution Appeals, digitised and made freely available online by Harvard Law School Library. During World War Two the Nazis compelled many victims in occupied countries to sell properties and businesses. After the war the Western Allies agreed to restitute property taken and the United States, France and Britain each passed different legislation governing the restitution of property taken by Nazis.
The Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Recht (Virtual Law Library) is a portal to high-quality legal resources on the internet, with an emphasis on German legal information. It forms part of the Special Law Collection at the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage in Germany. The portal is arranged into eight sections. The Subject Information Gateway provides access to resources relevant to academic legal research and can be searched by keyword or browsed by subject.
Website focusing on organised crime in the United States and Germany produced by Klaus von Lampe who is assistant professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. The site includes definitions of the term "organised crime" from the United States and other countries from around the world. Details of books, articles, reports and presentations by the author, many of which are made freely available in full text, can be downloaded from the site. There are reviews of books on organised crime and an annotated list of links to related sites.
English translation of the German Criminal Code, as amended, on the German Federal Ministry of Justice website. The translation is by Professor Michael Bohlander of the University of Durham.
Official English version of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (the German constitution), provided by the Public Relations Division of the German Bundestag. The Basic Law was promulgated on 23 May 1949 and this version is amended up to June 2008. The document includes chapters on basic rights, the Federation, the Bundestag, the Federal institutions and legislation, the administration of justice and defence and is downloadable in PDF format
This is an overview of printed and online sources for German legal research, part of the series of Globalex guides to information sources for legal research. The original Germany guide was written by Rita Exter and Martina Kammer (Linklaters Law firm, Düsseldorf) in 2008. It has been updated in 2022 by Dr Sebastian Omlor, (Professor of Law and Director of the Institute of Comparative Law at the University of Marburg School of Law, Germany).
Periodically-updated English translation of the German Civil Code, provided by the Federal Ministry of Justice on its 'Gesetze im Internet' website. The Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch) is arranged into five books: Book 1, General Part; Book 2, Law of Obligations; Book 3, Law of Property; Book 4, Family Law; and Book 5, Law of Succession.
