International law section of the German Foreign Office website, giving details of the multilateral treaties for which Germany is the depositary, under ‘Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland als Verwahrer mehrseitiger völkerrechtlicher Verträge’, and providing a small selection of documents relating to German state practice in international law, under ‘Aktuelle Völkerrechtspraxis Deutschlands’.
Official website of the Austrian Supreme Administrative Court (VwGH) which has final jurisdiction in matters of administrative law including planning permits, industrial operating licences, fiscal and asylum matters. It is one of three supreme courts in Austria the others being the Supreme Court (civil and criminal matters) and the Constitutional Court (constitutional law). The site describes the role and functions of the court and provides a link to the annual report (in German).
Official website of the Austrian Supreme Court of Justice, the highest appeal court dealing with civil and criminal matters. The site gives information on the role and functions of the court along with a list of presidents. There is a link to the Rechtsinformationssystem database where court decisions can be viewed in German. The site can be viewed in German or via an English interface.
Website of the Austrian Bar, the association representing lawyers practising in Austria. There is a directory of lawyers searchable by name, location, languages spoken and practice areas. Contact details and links to the regional bars are also given along with a guide to Austrian law (in German) which is free to download from the site. The site is presented in German with an English interface.
Treaty information provided by the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs. A database giving details of Austria’s bilateral treaties (‘Bilaterale Staatsverträge’) is available, searchable by keyword or subject, or browseable by country.
Meta-search engine for library catalogues from all over the world, collections of digitised material and online bookshops; includes the global library catalogue, WorldCat. For the most part it finds catalogue records only, but it also links to full-text material from the Hathi Trust, Google, the Directory of Open Access Journals and so on. Users can select which catalogues, digital resources and bookshops they wish to search, then search for books, serials or other material by key word, title, author, et cetera.
German portal project to provide advice and support relating to data protection and freedom of information to both commercial and personal users. Users can choose from a selection of keywords which both lead to a collection of full text documents, including relevant German legislation, and provide a gateway to resources on other sites. It is also possible to search the site using Boolean operators. The project offers a wide range of training events and details are provided.
Website of the German Federal Government. Provides detailed information about the roles of different departments and the work of the Chancellor. The News (Aktuellen) section includes a page detailing the latest proposed legislation. The Service section includes a Laws page and a glossary of political terms which includes outlines of government policy on key issues. The main pages are available in German, English and French.
Site of the German Federal Ministry of Justice, which is located in Berlin. Provides information about the role and work of the organisation. Topics covered include citizen’s rights, administration of justice, constitutional/administrative law, human rights, commercial/business law, digital technology and penal law. Users have the option to search the site by keyword, using wildcards/truncation, and can also restrict the search by date, relevance and the type of document required. The main language is German but an English language section is also available.
Parlamentsspiegel is the parliamentary documentation system of the German states (Laender). It provides databases of parliamentary papers (Drucksachen), parliamentary debates (Plenarprotokolle) and official gazettes (Gesetzblaetter), covering various date ranges. Some Federal publications are also available, notably the Federal Official Gazette (Bundesgesetzblatt), from 1980 onwards. To search for bills and laws only, see ‘Gesetzgebung’. The site is entirely in German.
