Constitution Executive COURTS AND JUDICIARY Legislative Legal Guides General Sources (includes LC Portals: Germany)

CONSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

• International Constitutional Law: Germany (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) offers English translation and background notes
• Constitution Finder (University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law) includes links to German, English, Spanish, and French

EXECUTIVE ARM

• Bundespräsident [President]
• Bundeskanzler [Chancellor]
• Bundesregierung [Government]

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• Bundesverfassungsgericht [Federal Constitutional Court]
• Bundesgerichtshof [Federal Court of Justice]
• Bundesverwaltungsgericht [Federal Administrative Court]
• Bundesministerium der Justiz [Ministry of Justice]
• News Bulletins / Pressemitteilungen (Juristisches Internetprojekt Saarbrücken) provides news bulletins in German on the German Federal Constitutional Court and Federal Supreme Courts of Germany.

LEGISLATIVE

• OFFICIAL GAZETTE: Bundesgesetzblatt, 1996-
• PARLIAMENT: Bundestag and Bundesrat
• Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (1990) offers an English translation of the German Constitution, although not updated; see the French/German Loi Fundamenal / Basic Law [Grundgesetz] for current information
• Gesetze (Juristisches Internetprojekt Saarbrücken) offers a wide selection of German legal texts in German including the German Constitution [Grundgesetz or Basic Law] and various codes and laws
• Strafgesetzbuch (StGB) (Lawww.de; Recht im World Wide Web) Penal Code; in German
• NATLEX: Germany (International Labour Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
• E-Transaction Law Resources: Germany (Baker & McKenzie)

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LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: Germany (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• FindLaw: Germany
• ForIntLaw: Germany (Washburn University Law Library)
• German Business and Commercial Laws: Guide to Translations into English and Select Auxiliary Sources (Martina Kammer and Anne Scharrenberg, via GlobaLex) February 2005
• German Law: Resources in English (University of Saarland)
• Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases Germany (New York University Law Library)
• COURTS AND JUDICIARY Assistance: Germany (U.S. Dept. of State)
• JURIST: Germany (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
• Law Schools of the World (FindLaw)
• Legal Research in Germany at the Crossroads of Traditional and Electronic Media: An Overview (Rita Exter and Martina Kammer, via LLRX) July 2, 2001
• Religious Liberty: The Legal Framework in Selected OSCE Countries (U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe) May 2000; prepared by the Law at the request of the Commision; includes Germany and ten other countries
• World Law Index: Germany (Australasian Legal Information Institute)
• World Legal Materials from Europe: Germany (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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GENERAL SOURCES

• Country Profile: Germany () December 2005; PDF
• Country Study: Germany () July 1995
• Country Study: East Germany () July 1987
• Portals to the World: Germany ()
• Background Notes: Germany (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Germany (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• Consular Information Sheet: Germany (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Information: Germany (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices, 1993-2001 (U.S. Dept. of State) see reports listed under Europe / Independent States
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Germany (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Economic Briefing: Germany (The Economist)
• Embassy of Germany, Washington
• Governments on the WWW: Germany (Gunnar Anzinger)
• Human Rights in Germany (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Germany (U.S. Dept. of State)
• NATIONAL LIBRARY: Die Deutsche Bibliothek
• NEWS: BBC World: Europe
• U.S. Embassy, Berlin (U.S. Dept. of State)
• World Factbook: Germany (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Germany (Google); Germany (Yahoo); WWW-VL West European Studies: Germany (University of Pittsburgh)