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Legal research in Germany between print and electronic media: an overview

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).

German Civil Code

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. 
 

A Legal Analysis of the Impacts of Administrative Court Decisions on the Validity of Private Law Contracts in Turkish Law

Online article looking at the effects of cancellation decisions made by administrative courts on the validity of private law contracts, written by Vedat Buz, Associate Professor of Civil Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Ankara, and çagdas Evrim Ergün, an associate with Turkish law firm çakmak and a PhD candidate at the University of Ankara. The article was published in the features section of LLRX.com in March 2007.

N-Lex

N-Lex provides a single search interface that can be used to search any of the national legislation websites of the EU member states. The search page is available in all 24 EU official languages. When searching by key words, either machine translation or the multilingual Eurovoc thesaurus can be used to translate them. For each state there is also general information about the types of legislation produced and the website to which the N-Lex search interface applies.

Humboldt Forum Recht

Humboldt Forum Recht is a German-language web journal, produced by the law department of Humboldt University in Berlin since 1996. It covers a wide range of legal themes, including foreign law and EU law. The contents are searchable; alternatively, the journal can be browsed by author, volume, or type of material. A free newsletter is also available on the website, for which users need to register. 

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