Websites on German Law

• Juristisches Internetprojekt Saarbrücken
  One of Germany's oldest law websites, and still one of the biggest.
  
• German laws in English translation - large links page to English translations of German statutes, well kept up to date.
  
• Moderner Staat
Large collection of federal statutes (German language only).
• dejure.org
Large collection of statutes with cross-references to other statutes and links to judgments available on-line (German language only)

• Walhalla - Gesetze im Internet - large collection of federal statutes (German language only)
  
• German Law Journal
  On-line journal for German, European and International Law
  
• Homepage of the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht)
Includes press releases and judgments from 1998 onwards (in German language).
• Homepage of the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof)
  Includes press releases and judgments from 2000 onwards (in German language).
• DFR-Informationen
Large collection of judgments, in particular by the Federal Constitutional Court, often with headnotes in English. Available on-line and as download file in ZIP format.
• Höchstrichterliche Rechtsprechung-Strafrecht
All decisions of the Federal Court of Justice in criminal matters from 1999, in HTML or as PDF file. All in German language.

• Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Frankfurt : various information about German law in English and French language.
  
• Literature on German Criminal Law in English , edited by Barbara Huber of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg (bibliography only)
• German Business and Commercial Laws: Guide to Translations into English and Select Auxiliary Sources, edited by Martina Kammer (bibliography only)
• Links to German Law, University of Wales at Cardiff
• Introduction to German Law - short introductions, and on-line exerpts of the 1975 translation of the German Civil Code by Forrester, Goren and Ilgen
• German legal weblogs / Deutsche juristische Weblogs, by Margaret Marks. Useful information about German law and legal translations.
  

Links to Law Websites by Country (including Germany)

• World Legal Information Institute
• Social Science Information Gateway (UK)
• World Legal Materials from Europe - Cornell University

Other Useful Websites

• The German Embassy in the UK
Includes a long links page to other German institutions and organisations
• German Academic Exchange Service Homepage
• Information about scholarships to and from Germany, and much more. English and German versions.
• Virtual library catalogue, University of Karlsruhe
One search takes you through the Library of Congress catalogue, and through the catalogues of most British and German universities. You can restrict the choice of catalogues. Knowledge of German is helpful.
• Zeitungen im Internet
Long list of German newspapers on the Internet (German language only).

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