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October 2009: Nine new or updated statues added

Translations of the following acts have been added to the statutes section:

March 2006: Ten judgments added

Ten judgments by the Federal Court of Justice relating to the Convention for the International Sale of Goods, together with three case notes, have been added to the judgments section.

March 2006: New article added

A new article on The German order for payment procedure (Mahnverfahren) has been added to the literature section.

January 2006: New statute added

A translation of Equipment and Product Safety Act has been added to the statutes section.

January 2006: New article added

A new article on Critical remarks on the "Killing Without Obvious Reason" Case (Federal Court of Justice, Decision of 13 July 2005) has been added to the literature section.

April 2005: New article added.

A new article on The New German Act Against Unfair Competition has been added to the literature section.

December 2004: New statutes added.

Judiciary Act and two other Acts were added to the statutes section.

August 2004: New statutes added.

Family Law Statutes were added to the statutes section.

August 2004: New statutes added in Commercial Law Section.

Translation of Securities Acquisition and Takeover Act has been added to the collection of Commercial Law Statutes.

Translation of Advisory Board Ordinance has been added to the collection of Commercial Law Statutes.

Translation ofObjections Committee Ordinance has been added to the collection of Commercial Law Statutes.

Translation of Offer Ordinance has been added to the collection of Commercial Law Statutes.

Translation of Fees Ordinance has been added to the collection of Commercial Law Statutes.

Translation of Excerpts from the Ordinance on the Transfer of Powers to issue Ordinances to the Federal Agency for Financial Services Supervision has been added to the collection of Commercial Law Statutes.

Translation of Excerpts from the Stock Corporation Act has been added to the collection of Commercial Law Statutes.

Translation of Award Proceedings Act has been added to the collection of Commercial Law Statutes.

August 2004: New statutes added in Family Law Section.

Translation of Foreign Maintenance Act has been added to the collection of Family Law Statutes.

Translation of Adoption Placement Act has been added to the collection of Family Law Statutes.

March 2003: New statute added.

Translation of Insolvency Statute (Insolvenzordnung, InsO) has been added to the collection of Civil Procedure Law Statutes.

September 2002: New article added.

New article added to the literature section: The New German Law of Obligations: an Introduction by Hans Schulte-Nölke.

February 2002: bilingual edition of the new German law of obligations.

An bilingual edition of those provisions of the German Civil Code which have been amended by the Law of Obligations Reform Act published exclusively in the German Law Archive. This was made possible through the generous support of the Zeit-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius.

December 2001: New Statutes added.

Translations of the full texts of the Amateur Radio Act, Network Access Ordinance, Telecommunications Rates Regulation Ordinance, Ordinance concerning Telecommunications Licence Fees, Telecommunications Customer Protection Ordinance, Telecommunications Universal Service Ordinance, Telecommunications Data Protection Ordinance, Postal Universal Service Ordinance has been added to the section on Media, Information and Data Statutes.

November 2001: New article added.

New article added to the literature section: The Treatment of the Voluntarily Intoxicated Offender in England and Germany by Brian Foley.

July 2001: Subscription service introduced.

We now run a free subscription service which we use to inform you about new materials published in the German Law Archive.

June 2001: New Statutes added.

Translations of the full texts of the Criminal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code have been added to the collection of Criminal Law Statutes. A translation of the Stasi Files Act has been added to the section on Media, Information and Data Statutes; and a translation of the Federal Soil Protection Act may now be found in the collection of Environmental Law Stautes.

May 2001: New Statutes added.

Translations of the Bundesbankgesetz and the Banking Act have been added to the collection of Commerical Law Statutes.

September 2000: New Ordinances added

Six new ordinances have been added to the collection of Commerical Law Statutes.

August 2000: New Statutes added

Three new statutes have been added to our on-line collection: the Law on the Supervision of Insurance Undertakings, the Securities Trading Act, and the Prospectus Act. We have also added the full-text of the Federation-Länder Agreement on EU Cooperation.

June 2000: New Discussion Forum Design

In anticipation of the launching of a new comparative law website at iuscomp, we have introduced new software to run the Discussion Forum on the German Law Archive.

June 2000: New Site Design

The German Law Archive is currently undergoing a major face-lift. The house-style has been streamlined and will be implemented in early June 2000. Please contact the Assistant Editor if you find any broken links or parts of the site that do not work satisfactorily.

May 2000: Act Against Restraints on Competition added

The Act Against Restraints on Competition (Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen, GWB) has been added to our on-line collection of statutes.

March 2000: New category added to collection of statutes

Two new statutes, the Federal Building Code and the Federal Regional Planning Act, have been added to the collection of statutes. They are to be found under a new category heading, entitled Planning and Construction Law Statutes. They are published here with the generous permission of the Federal Ministry for Building, Transport and Housing.

February 2000: German Law Archive receives Britannica Award

The Britannica Internet Guide Award has selected our website "as one of the best on the Internet when reviewed for quality, accuracy of content, presentation and usability", as they write, and have also offered the German Law Archive to provide our users with a search box which gives direct access to britannica.com - including the Encyclopaedia Britannica. You can find this search box on our links page.

January 2000: Political Parties Act added

The Political Parties Act (Parteiengesetz) is at the centre of a major political and constitutional scandal in Germany, after former Chancellor Helmut Kohl has admitted to have accepted DM 2 Million in cash donations for his Christian Democratic Union from unnamed donors, conduct which is in violation of §25 ParteienG. We have also added a number of statutes concerning media and the protection of young persons.

We have added English translations of the German constitution (Basic Law, Grundgesetz) and of the Copyright Act to our collection of on-line statutes.

July 1999: German Law Archive sponsored by CMS Hasche Sigle Eschenlohr Peltzer

The German law firm of CMS Hasche Sigle Eschenlohr Peltzer has agreed to sponsor the German Law Archive for 1999-2001. Their generous support enables us to employ an Assistant Editor and to make technical improvements on the our server. Users of the German Law Archive will profit from:

an enlargement of the German Law Archive Database, which will be updated over the summer;
an enlargement of the on-line statutes sections, with forthcoming additions of the German constitution and the Copyright Act;
faster access times.

Search Function and Access Statistics

We have installed a faster and more comfortable search function for the text files published in the German Law Archive. You can also obtain access statistics for the iuscomp server.

February 1999: Judgment of English High Court Becomes First Authority on German Civil Code Provision

A recent judgment of the High Court in City of Gotha and Federal Republic of Germany v. Sotheby's and Cobert Finance S.A. has become the first reported decision on § 221 BGB (German Civil Code). You will find a full transcript of the judgment together with some notes if you follow the above link. Reading highly recommended to anybody interested in German law, conflicts of law, or just a good crime story about a priceless painting, post-war occupation of Germany and murky Moscovite art smugglers.

February 1999: New Domain for German Law Archive

The German Law Archive now runs on the new domain of iuscomp.org, which is hosted by Relay Business Systems Ltd. The decision to move the German Law Archive outside of the University of Oxford network follows a series of power cuts due to ongoing building work. We apologise to users of the German Law Archive for previous interruptions in the operation of the server, and would like to thank Relay Business Systems Ltd. for their kind support.

February 1998: "Translated German Cases and Materials" Series Published in the German Law Archive

"Translated German Cases and Materials" is a new series of English translations of German judgments and other German legal materials under the directorship of Professors P. Schlechtriem, B. Markesinis and S. Lorenz. Translators include Tony Weir, Raymond Youngs and Irene Snook. It is planned that the entire series will be first or exclusively published in the German Law Archive. The first eleven translations of German judgments (in particular in tort law) have just been added to the German Law Archive.

November 1998: Inauguration of the German Law Archive Database

The German Law Archive Database was inaugurated in a ceremony at Gray's Inn, London on 4 November 1998, starting at 6:00pm GMT, by the German ambassador in London, Gebhardt von Moltke, as part of the new German Law Websites in the UK network.

The German Law Archive Database allows you to:

Search an on-line database which aims to include anything and everything published on German law in English language. We will start on 4 November with some 1,000 entries, but have already identified some 2,000 more which will gradually be entered into the database. This allows you to search by our purpose designed classification, by keywords, by author, title, etc.
Contribute to the German Law Archive Database. If you have found a book, article, statute, judgment or other material which we have not listed, you can submit an entry on-line, with or without your comments.
Use our new discussion forum. Browse our existing groups, contribute with your replies and questions, and vote on the introduction of new groups. Use this also if you have specific questions about German law - another user may be able to help you.

We will ask you to register as a user, although you can use parts of the database (in particular the search functions) anonymously.

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