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Guide to Law Online: Germany

Legal Guides

The following resources include primary and secondary legal reference materials, as well as government and non-government websites that provide access to free online legal information about Germany.

Official gazettes are primary sources of law published by national governments to disseminate new legislation, regulations, and decisions of governmental bodies. These publications may also contain other information including the text of international agreements, court decisions, official announcements, and government notices. For countries with civil law systems, the official gazette often serves as the sole source of the authoritative texts of laws until updated codes are published. In most countries, a law enters into force on the date of publication in the official gazette. For a complete list of the Law Library's gazettes, please visit the Foreign Legal Gazette Collection.

The following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional digital content are provided when available.

Below you will find a list of selected legal reference materials relating to Germany, including statutory collections, case reporters, current regulations, and secondary source resources, when available in the Law Library's collection.

The following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional digital content are provided when available.

The following resources have been created or curated by the Law Library of Congress related to this nation. In addition to documents, many of the links below retrieve results from online databases and catalogs or collections of legal materials maintained by the Law Library.