Legal library

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The legal library (also: legal library ) provides lawyers , law students and other interested parties with sources and literature on the respective law . This is the right that is required according to matter, space and time, for example the applicable (time) tax law (matter) in Switzerland (space).

task

This article provides an introduction to the legal libraries in Germany , Austria and Switzerland ( DA-CH region ).

Legal libraries have the task of collecting, indexing and making accessible legal literature, sources, electronic media and other means of information . In addition to legal books and magazines in particular also be collected dissertations and other university publications , commemorative publications , reference books , laws and jurisprudence collections , Parlamentaria and other legally relevant materials. Electronic media (online databases , CD-ROMs , e-books , digital copies) are becoming increasingly important and are increasingly replacing conventional printed books and magazines.

The law libraries fulfill their duties by law librarians , graduate librarians , Specialists in media and information services as well as other forces and facilities. On the legal librarianship associations cf. in the article Legal Librarian .

Extensive holdings of legal literature can be found both in legal libraries and in general academic libraries , such as B. in state and university libraries . Because of their significant legal holdings and departments, these general libraries are treated here like the legal libraries.

Legal literature, especially specialist literature, is also available in many technical college libraries. So z. B. the Federal University for Public Administration in Brühl (Rhineland), the German Police University in Münster-Hiltrup or the Police University in Villingen-Schwenningen.

The legal libraries are generally publicly funded. Recently, however, private law libraries have also emerged, e. B. in large law firms and private universities . The Bucerius Law School in Hamburg is one of the most important private universities in the field of law .

In addition, there are private law libraries in the German-speaking area (such as the libraries of law professors), some of which are of some importance and were of even greater importance in earlier centuries.

The terms “legal library” and “legal library” are equivalent. “Legal library” is an old term and corresponds to the Latin “Bibliotheca juridica”. “Legal library” is a more recent expression and has been in use since the last decades of the 20th century (especially since German reunification ). The three fewer syllables and the literal translation of the English-American synonym "Law library" may have contributed to the spread.

The term “legal library” was initially used to denote legal publications . The Stilke Law Library series is particularly well-known from this point of view . Sometimes even now individual collections on legal issues are referred to as “legal library”, e.g. B. Federal Law Library online .

Right bibliographies , i.e. registers of legal literature, were often referred to as Bibliotheca juridica in the past . Magazines and other periodicals that provided information about or reviewed legal publications often had the name Legal Library in their title.

history

The legal libraries came into being at different times for different reasons and were not the result of uniform planning.

Libraries , including public libraries , already existed in ancient times ( ancient libraries ). Their holdings sometimes also included a few scrolls with legal content. The legal libraries only emerged in Europe at the end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th centuries as parts of larger monastery and church libraries . Theology was dealt with in a main part of the respective library, in other parts canon law and other areas of law, in accordance with the then even stronger interest of the high clergy in secular matters.

The library catalog of the St. Peter monastery in the Black Forest, founded in 1093, from the second half of the 18th century lists around 1,100 legal titles (13 percent of the total stock). However, it only contains 45 titles from the time before 1500, which is due, among other things, to several fires.

The Brandenburg Schöppenstuhl Library also dates from this period. The Schöppenstuhl was built in 1232 as a higher court for the Margraviate of Brandenburg and was active until 1817. The decisions of the court were of importance far beyond the Brandenburg region. The well-preserved library with 2300 volumes, which was most recently maintained by the Berlin State Library, contains documents of legal and cultural historical significance on the case law in the Middle Ages. In 2015, part of the Schöppenstuhl Library was returned from the Berlin State Library to the library of the Brandenburg Cathedral Foundation on permanent loan.

The Magdeburg Law , first a city charter was, since the 12th century is of great importance for the administration of justice to Eastern Europe. A memorial for Magdeburg law in Kiev still reminds of this. The extensive collection of sayings of the Magdeburg Schöffenstuhl was destroyed in 1631 during the Thirty Years War . The Magdeburg Oberhof was no longer viable without an archive and library.

Private legal libraries existed in German-speaking countries as early as the Middle Ages . Dietrich III. von Bocksdorf (approx. 1410–1466, rector of the University of Leipzig , most recently Bishop of Naumburg), for example, donated his legal library to various monasteries, through which it finally came to the Leipzig University Library . Konrad Peutinger's legal library (1467–1547) is also of importance for this period . Donations from scholars to universities often formed the basis for their legal literature.

Around 1830, four private legal libraries are listed in an address book in Hamburg. The important private library of Otto von Gierke (1841–1921) was sold to Japan. The private libraries of Andreas von Thur, Friedrich Thaner and Julius Hatschek also came to Japan as reparation objects after the First World War. Even now, the legal libraries of deceased scholars are still offered in antiquarian bookshops .

From the end of the 18th century, libraries of private legal reading societies emerged , for example in Mannheim (only from approx. 1801–1803), Hanover (1827–1986), Hamburg (1828 to today), Vienna (1840–1990), and St. Gallen (statutes from 1845).

Catalogs, databases and publications

Networking with databases has also fully embraced the legal libraries. There is internet access in the PC pool and with WLAN . At least for the employees of the respective institution z. B. Juris , LexisNexis and Beck-Online . Legal portals have also emerged in Austria and Switzerland, in Austria the legal information system RIS , in Switzerland the Swisslex database and the meta catalog for legal literature research Jusbib.

Whereas in the past the holdings of the legal libraries could be researched in card catalogs and printed library catalogs , today they are almost exclusively recorded in online catalogs ( OPACs ), which are mostly also available to the general public. The OPACs of the larger libraries are in turn grouped together in library networks, for example in the Southwest German Library Network (SWB) , the Austrian Library Network (OBV) or the Information Network for German-speaking Switzerland (IDS) . The associations themselves each have a searchable union catalog of all connected libraries. Joint research in all of these associations, in turn using a meta search engine, is possible in the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK) , which makes a comprehensive search for (legal) literature much easier. For example, the major legal libraries of the Federal Court of Justice and the Federal Constitutional Court , several legal Max Planck Institutes and university libraries are connected to the SWB .

In some cases, legal libraries publish their current acquisitions and sometimes also new articles in lists of new acquisitions in print or online. The library of the Federal Court of Justice and the Federal Constitutional Court, for example, jointly publish their new acquisitions and the newly cataloged articles in the Karlsruhe Legal Bibliography (KJB), which has been printed monthly since 1965 . In addition, the books and cataloged articles acquired from the library of the BGH are placed online in lists of new acquisitions (separated by books and articles) on its website. These essays have also been included in the OPAC of the Southwest German Library Network for a number of years.

Other libraries that create lists of new acquisitions are, for example, the library of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law , the library of the Federal Labor Court , and the Law Department of the University of Tübingen . The new acquisitions of the Institute for Criminology Tübingen and the special collection area Criminology of the University Library of Tübingen can also be viewed online and are also offered cumulatively in KrimDok as a searchable database.

An evaluation and cataloging of articles from legal journals and Festschriften ( documentation ) is rarely carried out in legal libraries. As long as there are still bibliographies for this, this can be accepted, but no longer if their appearance is questionable.

use

The legal libraries are partly lending libraries and partly reference libraries . The rights and obligations of library users are usually set out in usage regulations and a fee schedule.

Types of Legal Libraries

Legal libraries and other libraries with extensive legal collections can be distinguished as follows ( library types ):

Libraries of institutes and departments / faculties of universities

Legal training in German-speaking countries takes place at universities and colleges . After German reunification , the legal training centers in West and East Germany were aligned with one another. Legal research takes place at the older universities at the institutes for international law, comparative law, tax law, legal history, etc. These institutes usually have their own library. However, many universities have shared libraries for all or special areas of law. The department and faculty libraries are primarily for the student use. The institute's libraries are primarily available to professors, lecturers, assistants and doctoral students. At the newly founded universities, e.g. B. Regensburg and Bielefeld, the teaching staff have access to the important collections of the legal collections incorporated in the university library, which are also used by the students.

Legal department, faculty, branch and branch libraries in Germany:

  • Law section of the Augsburg University Library
  • Law and Economics Branch Library of Bayreuth University Library
  • Library of the Law Faculty of the Free University of Berlin
  • Law branch library of the University Library of the Humboldt University in Berlin
  • Specialized library 11: Law of the Bielefeld University Library
  • Central legal seminar at the University of Bochum
  • Legal seminar at the University of Bonn
  • Juridicum of the State and University Library Bremen
  • Law branch library of the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library
  • Law library of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Branch library 2: Law of the University Library Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • Law and Economics Library at the University of Frankfurt am Main
  • Law library of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau
  • Law and Economics Branch Library of the Giessen University Library
  • Central libraries of the Law Faculty of the University of Göttingen
  • Library of the Law and Political Science Faculty of the University of Greifswald
  • Law branch library of the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt in Halle (Saale)
  • Central Law Library of the University of Hamburg
  • Law department library of the Lower Saxony State Library in Hanover
  • Library of the Law Faculty of Heidelberg University
  • Law, economic and social sciences branch library of the Thuringian University and State Library Jena
  • Departmental Library 3: Economics, Law, Sport of the University Library Kassel - State Library and Murhard Library of the City of Kassel
  • Specialized library at the Law Department of the University Library in Kiel
  • Joint Law Library of the University and City Library Cologne / Law Seminar
  • Law library of the Leipzig University Library
  • Law and Economics Library of the Mainz University Library
  • Ehrenhof Palace Library - Specialized library for geography, history, law and economics at the Mannheim University Library
  • Law Library of the University Library of Marburg
  • Law seminar at the University of Münster
  • Law and Economics Library of the Osnabrück University Library
  • Juridicum reading room and Nikolakloster reading room at the University of Passau
  • Departmental library for law, economics and social sciences at the Potsdam University Library
  • Law section of the University Library of Regensburg
  • Lichtenhagen departmental library of the Rostock University Library
  • German-European Juridicum - Library of the Law Faculty of Saarland University in Saarbrücken
  • Law of the University Library Trier
  • Legal seminar at the University of Tübingen
  • EBS Law School Library of the University of Economics and Law Wiesbaden
  • Law section of the University Library of Würzburg

The universities in Austria have the following law faculty libraries:

  • ReSoWi library of the Graz University Library
  • Central library administration of the law faculty of the University of Innsbruck
  • Juridicum library of the Linz University Library
  • Law Faculty Library at the University of Salzburg
  • Law Department Library of the University Library Vienna

The following law faculty libraries should be mentioned for Switzerland:

  • Library of the Law Faculty of the University of Basel
  • Legal library of the University of Bern
  • Bibliothèque de la Faculté de droit, Friborg / Library of the Faculty of Law, Friborg
  • Bibliothèque de droit et sciences économiques, Lausanne / Law and Business Library, Lausanne
  • Library of the Law Institute of the University of Zurich

Research libraries

Libraries of the legal Max Planck institutes

In the libraries of the legal Max Planck Institutes, literature on international, foreign and comparative law is collected, but also literature on German law in the respective subject area for comparative purposes.

The library of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law was founded in 1924 as the library of a Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in the Berlin City Palace and was rebuilt in Heidelberg after the war from 1949. It is the largest of the Max Planck legal libraries. In particular, publications from the United Nations and its specialized agencies are acquired.

The library of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law was founded in 1926 as the library of a Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in the Berlin City Palace, moved to Tübingen in 1944 and to Hamburg in 1956. It is one of the most important libraries in its field; moreover, it suffered no war losses.

Other Max Planck Legal Libraries:

Library of the Swiss Institute for Comparative Law

The library of the Swiss Institute for Comparative Law (Institut suisse de droit comparé) in Lausanne - in contrast to the libraries of the legal Max Planck Institutes - is not limited to one area of ​​law. The focus, however, is on private law , for practical reasons: the public law holdings of the MPI in Heidelberg, the criminal law holdings of the MPI in Freiburg and the international law holdings of the UN library in Geneva are easier for Swiss lawyers to access than the private law holdings of the MPI in Hamburg.

Court libraries

The highest federal courts in Germany and the Federal Constitutional Court have court libraries with excellent holdings. The courts of the 2nd instance, e.g. B. Higher regional courts and the Higher Regional Court in Berlin have noteworthy libraries.

The library of the Federal Court of Justice was founded in Karlsruhe in 1950. After the fall of the Wall, the library of the Supreme Court of the GDR and essential parts of the Reich Court Library could be taken over.

Further libraries of the highest federal courts exist at the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig, the Federal Labor Court in Erfurt, the Federal Social Court in Kassel and the Federal Fiscal Court in Munich.

With regard to Austria, the library of the Supreme Court (Zentralbibliothek im Justizpalast) and the library of the Constitutional Court of Austria in Vienna should be mentioned; With regard to Switzerland, the central library of the Swiss Federal Court in Lausanne, with a branch library for insurance law in Lucerne. There is no constitutional jurisdiction in Switzerland.

Parliamentary Libraries

The libraries of the parliaments of the federal and state governments ( parliamentary libraries ) do not only have legal stocks but also have books and magazines on politics and economics . They also collect a considerable amount of parliamentary and official publications, e. B. from cities and municipalities.

The library of the German Bundestag in Berlin was founded in Bonn in 1949 and took over the library of the Parliamentary Council ; it is also the repository library for the publications of international organizations .

The library and documentation of the Berlin House of Representatives are also worth mentioning. Special collection areas are parliamentary publications of the Bundestag and Bundesrat , the Berlin House of Representatives and the European legislative bodies. Further parliamentary libraries are located in the capitals of the German federal states.

For Austria the parliamentary library in Vienna is important, for Switzerland the federal parliament and central library in the Bundeshaus in Bern.

Government and ministerial libraries

Government libraries can be found in very different areas. The federal and state ministerial libraries, which also contain extensive historical holdings, are among the most important.

The library of the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection has around 330,000 media units (as of 2015). The library has taken over the library of the former GDR Ministry of Justice and thus parts of the library of the Reich Ministry of Justice .

Significant legal holdings can also be found in the libraries of the Federal Foreign Office , the Federal Ministry of the Interior , the Federal Ministry of Finance and other federal ministries .

The library of the German Patent and Trademark Office in Munich has around 986,000 volumes and around 30,000 e-books (as of 2015). A special collection includes patent documents , standards and the electronic DIN display . Special collection areas are technology, natural sciences and commercial legal protection. The library of the Federal Patent Court is attached .

For Austria the administrative library in the Federal Chancellery in Vienna is important (also as a result of the Austrian legal deposit law), for Switzerland the Federal Parliament and Central Library ( subordinate to the Federal Chancellery ) in Bern.

Lawyer and Notary Libraries

With the emergence of large law firms, there has also been a need to build libraries for law firms' lawyers. There may well be specialist library staff. These libraries are maintained exclusively from private funds. The same applies to the notary's libraries, e.g. B. the library of the German Notary Institute in Würzburg.

General scientific libraries

The general academic libraries ( universal libraries ) also play an important role in the supply of legal literature.

University libraries

At the older universities there is a library system on two or three levels . There, legal literature is collected in the university library (UB), and often the same books in the institute and department / faculty libraries for use there. The various libraries in the university area are usually in financial difficulties and are therefore forced to find compromise solutions. The newer universities avoid fragmenting their legal literature by transferring their entire legal inventory to the legal department library, which is a division of the university library. This solution requires collaboration and compromise on the part of both professors and librarians. The selection of books and electronic publications is usually done by the members of the faculties and by subject specialists from the university library.

University libraries in Germany:

University libraries in Austria:

University libraries in Switzerland:

State and state libraries

In Germany there is no central national library with extensive collections of German and foreign publications. The tasks of a national library are divided between the German National Library in Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main, the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage and the Bavarian State Library in Munich.

The German National Library (DNB) with locations in Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main collects German-language publications on German and foreign law, as well as publications in other languages ​​on German law. Under German law, a complete collection is available due to the library's right to deposit copies . The German National Library is also Germany's national bibliographical center. The German National Bibliography, which is accessible online and which can also be used to search for German legal titles in the DNB's OPAC, appears here in various series .

The Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage has been a library in two buildings since German reunification in 1990, i. H. Unter den Linden (house 1) and Potsdamer Straße (house 2). It goes back to the Electoral Library in Berlin, which was founded in 1661, called the Royal Library from 1701 and the Prussian State Library from the end of 1918. Since 1975 the State Library has been responsible for the special collection area law, i. H. it procures and lends legal books and magazines that are mainly published outside of the Federal Republic of Germany. This is done with the German Research Foundation (DFG) on the basis of a special collection area plan , according to which at least one copy of every important foreign work should be available in the library system of the Federal Republic of Germany. In the years 2013–2015, the special collection areas were transferred to the DFG's new funding program "Specialized Information Services for Science". In this context, the Berlin State Library now operates the specialist information service for international and interdisciplinary legal research with the Virtual Specialized Law Library (Vifa Law). There is also a platform for open access publication on topics of international and interdisciplinary legal research.

Due to exceptional regulations, the legal literature of some areas is not collected at the Berlin State Library, but by other libraries: Spain , Portugal and Latin America in the library of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage , which is housed in an annex of the State Library (House 2). Criminology and criminalistics in the library of the Institute for Criminology at the University of Tübingen .

The Bavarian State Library in Munich has considered the most important of the country's libraries through an extensive collection of German law. This is due to the fact that important legal publishers (e.g. C. H. Beck ) have their headquarters in Munich and that the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek receives their publisher's production due to a regional legal deposit right. Due to its history as a library at the seat of the Bavarian dukes, electors and kings, the Bavarian State Library also has an important collection on the legal history of Bavaria.

The Austrian National Library in Vienna and the Swiss National Library in Bern should be mentioned as further state libraries with significant holdings . Due to the legal deposit, a complete collection on Austrian law is available in the Austrian National Library. Since the library was founded in the 14th century, important holdings on the legal history of Austria and the former Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation can also be found there.

The Swiss National Library was founded in 1895 and was initially called the Swiss National Library. On the basis of a voluntary agreement with the publishers, the Swiss National Library has had a complete collection on Swiss law since it was founded.

Other state libraries with important legal historical holdings include the Berlin Central and State Library , the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in Hanover, the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart, the RheinMain University and State Library in Wiesbaden and Rüsselsheim and the Zurich Central Library .

City libraries and public libraries

City libraries and public libraries also have legal literature, city libraries (as well as state libraries) often especially on the legal history of the place and the area, public libraries especially for lay people and sometimes also for students. - The boundaries between the different library types are fluid. Many city libraries are both academic and public libraries.

The libraries with the largest legal collections in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

The libraries with the largest legal collections in Germany, Austria and Switzerland:

  • German National Library in Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main. Approx. 2,500,000 (approx. 30,000,000)
  • Bavarian State Library in Munich. Approx. 830,000 (approx.15,000,000)
  • Library of the Law Faculty of the Free University of Berlin. Approx. 800,000
  • Library of the German Bundestag in Berlin. Approx. 750,000 (approx. 1,500,000)
  • Library of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. Approx. 640,000
  • Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage. Approx. 610,000 (approx.11,400,000)
  • Austrian National Library in Vienna. Approx. 600,000 (approx.12,000,000)
  • Central Library Zurich. Approx. 550,000 (approx. 6,800,000)
  • Library of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Approx. 530,000
  • Swiss National Library in Bern. Approx. 500,000 (approx. 5,800,000)
  • Central Law Library of the University of Hamburg. Approx. 500,000
  • Library of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg. Approx. 480,000

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See also

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Library of the German Police University.
  2. ^ Library of the University of Police Baden-Württemberg.
  3. ^ Hengeler Mueller Library of the Bucerius Law School.
  4. ^ Martin Vorberg: The information logistics of the Bucerius Law School. Legal information for studies, research, teaching and further education. In: Handbook of University Library Systems. Edited by Konstanze Söllner and Wilfried Sühl-Strohmenger. De Gruyter Saur, Berlin, 2014, pp. 282–289. (Essentially identical in: Law, Library, Documentation 44 [2014] pp. 63–77.)
  5. ↑ See e.g. B. Martin Schumacher: From Max Alsberg to Ludwig Töpfer. Books and libraries of Jewish lawyers after 1933. Losses, finds and an inheritance from “Reich property”. Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch, 2012. ISBN 978-3-87707-844-0 .
  6. ↑ Examples of private libraries are: the Wallenrodt Library , the remains of which can still be seen in Königsberg ( Kaliningrad ) and in other cities in Eastern Europe, and the library of Zacharias Konrad von Uffenbach , originally in Frankfurt am Main.
  7. ↑ Stilke's Law Library. The laws of the German Reich and the German states with systematic explanations. Stilke (later: De Gruyter ), Berlin 1.1921 - 169.1939. ZDB -ID 253565-8 (partly in several editions or reprints.)
  8. ↑ Law Library Federal Law online. LexisNexis Germany, Münster 2008-. ZDB -ID & key = zdb 2462934-0
  9. ↑ See e.g. E.g . : Bibliotheca iuridica. Or a list of all useful works, older and more recent, but especially from the year 1750 to the middle of 1839 in Germany, on all parts of legal scholarship and its auxiliary sciences. Completely redesigned again. second edition by Wilhelm Engelmann . Engelmann, Leipzig, 1840. (In addition to) Supplm. 1. 1839/48 - 3. 1867/76. (Online Hauptbd.) (Online 1839/48.) - Stubenrauch, Wolfgang: Bibliotheca iuridica Austriaca. List of the pamphlets published in Austria (except Hungary and Siebenbuergen) from the earliest times up to the end of 1846 and the essays from all parts of legal scholarship contained in the Austrian legal journals. With a detailed subject register. One try. Beck, Vienna, 1847. (Online.)
  10. ↑ See e.g. B .: Johann Andreas Hoffmann: Selected but complete legal library in which the most distinguished works, books, and academic treatises ... until this time came to light. Accompanied by sincere judgments ... Part 1-5. Schultze, Jena, 1748. (Online.)
  11. ↑ Ladislaus Buzás: German Library History of the Middle Ages (1975), p. 144.
  12. ^ Stanley Chodorow: Law libraries and the formation of the legal profession in the Late Middle Ages (2007), pp. 3–12.
  13. ^ The library of the St. Peter monastery. Contributions to their history and holdings. Edited by Elmar Mittler and Wolfgang Müller. Verlag Konkordia AG, Bühl / Baden 1972, pp. 12, 34, 46. - An analysis of the legal status (excluding church law) cf. in this volume p. 41–105: Heide Liehl: The legal holdings of the former library of the St. Peter monastery in the Black Forest. An analysis based on your catalog.
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  16. ↑ See Marek Wejwoda: Dietrich von Bocksdorf and his books. Reconstruction, development and content focus of a late medieval scholarly library. Universitätsverlag, Leipzig, 2014. ( Writings from the university library. 31.) ISBN 978-3-86583-785-1 .
  17. ↑ Hans-Jörg Künast (Ed.): The Konrad Peutinger Library. Volume 1.2. Niemeyer, Tübingen, 2003-05. (Volume 2: Peutinger's autograph catalogs, the legal library section. ISBN 3-484-16514-6 .)
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  19. ^ Catalog of the Otto von Gierke library in the Tokyo University of Commerce. Tokyo 1930.
  20. ↑ Gierke Bunko (Otto von Gierke) / ギ ー ル ケ 文庫. (Information from the German Institute for Japanese Studies.)
  21. ^ Catalog of the Andreas von Tuhr Library in the Law Faculty of Kyoto University. Kyoto, 1976.
  22. ↑ Tuhr Bunko (Andreas von Tuhr) / ト ゥ ー ル 文庫 . (Information from the German Institute for Japanese Studies.)
  23. ^ Catalog of the Friedrich Thaner Library in the Law Faculty of Kyoto University. Kyoto, 1976.
  24. ↑ Thaner Bunko (Friedrich Thaner) / タ ー ナ ー 文庫 . (Information from the German Institute for Japanese Studies.)
  25. ^ Catalog of the Julius Hatschek Library in the Law Faculty of Kyoto University. Kyoto, 1976.
  26. ↑ Hatschek Bunko (Julius Hatschek) / ハ チ ェ ッ ク 文庫 . (Information from the German Institute for Japanese Studies.)
  27. ^ The Mannheim legal reading society. In: Karl-Otto Scherner: advocates, revolutionaries, lawyers. The history of the Mannheim legal profession. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen, 1997. ISBN 3-7995-0958-5 , pp. 106-112.
  28. ^ Margit Jagemann: The legal reading club at the regional and district court Hanover and the library of the regional court. Origin, development, tasks. Hanover University of Applied Sciences, diploma thesis, 1989.
  29. ↑ Geert Seelig: The Legal Reading Society of 1828. Considerations on their beginnings and their career. In: Hamburgische Geschichts- und Heimatblätter . Volume 10 (1977/81), No. 6/7, ISSN  0931-0185 , pp. 164-176. (On-line)
  30. ^ Legal reading society from 1828 e. V. - Library. (Info from SUB Hamburg.)
  31. ^ Wilhelm Brauneder : Reading Association and Legal Culture. The juridical-political reading association in Vienna 1840 to 1990. Manz, Vienna, 1992. ISBN 3-214-06031-7 .
  32. ↑ Legal-political reading association in Vienna. In: Tomas Olechowski / Tamara Ehs / Kamila Staudigl-Ciechowicz: The Vienna Law and Political Science Faculty 1918–1938. V & R Unipress, Göttingen ( inter alia ), 2014, ISBN 978-3-89971-985-7 , pp. 703-704. (On-line)
  33. ^ Statutes of the legal reading club in St. Gallen. Adopted December 15, 1845. St. Gallen, 1845.
  34. ↑ https://jus.swissbib.ch/ JusBib
  35. ^ For a directory of printed catalogs from legal libraries, mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries, see: Gerd Hoffmann: Bibliographie der deutschen Rechtsbibliographien. Hoffmann, Schifferstadt, 1994, ISBN 3-929349-20-5 , pp. 19-27.
  36. ^ Karlsruhe legal bibliography. Systematic evidence of new books and articles in a monthly sequence from law, state, society. Beck, Munich 1.1965-. ISSN  0453-3283
  37. ^ Lists of new acquisitions in the library of the Federal Court of Justice.
  38. ^ New acquisitions (from the library of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.) ( Memento from July 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  39. ↑ The Library - New Acquisitions.
  40. ↑ New acquisitions online (from the Tübingen Legal Department).
  41. ↑ Search the new acquisitions lists.
  42. ↑ KrimDok research.
  43. ↑ Like the Karlsruhe Legal Bibliography and the bibliography of legal Festschriften and Festschrift contributions by Helmut Dau, continued by Dietrich Pannier and Anja Aulich. Both bibliographies also take into account Austrian and Swiss law.
  44. ^ Like the university, state, state and city libraries, with the exception of the holdings in the reading rooms .
  45. ↑ Like the institute, department, faculty, court, parliament, authority, ministerial, lawyer and notary libraries. However, these libraries are usually only accessible to a certain group of users.
  46. ↑ See also Lansky / Kesper: Library Law Regulations , 4th edition, 2007 ff., No. 1300–1397.
  47. ↑ At some older universities, a legal department library is referred to as the "Library of the Legal Seminar" or - somewhat shortened - as the "Legal Seminar". See e.g. B. Carl E. Kesper: To the history of the library of the legal seminar. In: Bonner Rechtsjournal. Special edition 1/2010 pp. 23-27 as well as 150 years of the Legal Seminar of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. 1862-2012. Bonn, 2012. ( Bonner Rechtsjournal. Special edition 1/2012.)
  48. ↑ If no legal department, faculty, branch or branch library is specified here for a university town, it may be because there is no such library and the decision was made there to store the legal literature mainly in the university library (cf. . then under 5.7.1 University Libraries) or in individual institutes. - The names of the libraries dealt with here sometimes differ between the departmental libraries and the university libraries. The executive directors of the university libraries mostly prefer a designation such as “Law branch of the university library”, while the university professors tend to keep the old expression “University's legal seminar library”. In case of doubt, the version most frequently used on the Internet was reproduced here. - See also the list of law faculties in Germany in Wikiversity .
  49. ↑ Yearbook of the German Libraries 66. 2015/16 (2015) p. 30
  50. ^ Library of Law at the Free University of Berlin.
  51. ↑ Specialized Library 11: Law of the Bielefeld University Library
  52. ^ Branch library law of the Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden
  53. ↑ Law Library of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  54. ^ Legal seminar library of the Freiburg University Library and other legal institute libraries ( Memento from August 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  55. ↑ The Law Seminar Library is located in the Freiburg University Library.
  56. ↑ Law: Information and Media.
  57. ^ Central libraries of the Law Faculty of the University of Göttingen
  58. ^ Georgia Wohlleben: Everything that is right ... - Merging of 19 law libraries from the University of Hamburg. In: Libraries Today! Best practice in planning, construction and equipment. Edited by Petra Hauke ​​and Klaus Ulrich Werner. Bock + Herchen, Bad Honnef, 2011, pp. 172–182. ISBN 978-3-88347-274-4 . (On-line.)
  59. ^ Central Law Library of the University of Hamburg. ( Memento from April 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  60. ^ Library of the Law Faculty of Heidelberg University
  61. ^ Department library 3: Economics, Law, Sport of the University Library Kassel - State Library and Murhard Library of the City of Kassel
  62. ↑ The library of the Institute for World Economy , German Central Library for Economics at the University of Kiel , also has good legal holdings, especially in the areas of legal economics and business law.
  63. ↑ Law library (reference library)
  64. ↑ Law and Economics Library of the Mainz University Library
  65. ^ Library area Ehrenhof Palace - specialist library for geography, history, law and economics of the Mannheim University Library
  66. ^ Departmental Law Library of the University Library of Marburg
  67. ↑ Juridicum reading room and Nikolakloster reading room at the University of Passau
  68. ^ Departmental library Lichtenhagen of the Rostock University Library
  69. ^ German-European Juridicum
  70. ↑ Law of the Trier University Library
  71. ↑ See also in Wikiversity the list of law faculties in Austria .
  72. ↑ ReSoWi Library Graz University Library
  73. ^ Central library administration of the law faculty of the University of Innsbruck
  74. ^ Library Juridicum of the University Library Linz
  75. ↑ Law Faculty Library of the University of Salzburg ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  76. ↑ Law Department Library of the University of Vienna
  77. ↑ See also: Legal Libraries in Switzerland (selection) ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  78. ^ Library of the Law Faculty of the University of Basel
  79. ↑ Legal library of the University of Bern
  80. ↑ There is also a legal research library for the academic staff of the Faculty of Law. A better solution for a faculty than a dozen institute libraries?
  81. ^ Bibliothèque de la Faculté de droit, Friborg / Library of the Faculty of Law, Freiburg
  82. ^ The canton of Friborg / Freiburg im Üchtland is bilingual.
  83. ^ Bibliothèque de droit et sciences économiques, Lausanne / Law and Business Library, Lausanne
  84. ↑ The outstanding legal collections of the Max Planck Institutes are u. a. listed in the directory of legal journals and series (VRZS) in selected libraries of the Federal Republic of Germany = Union list of legal serials in selected libraries of the Federal Republic of Germany . 4th ext. Ed. Volume 1–3. Saur, Munich 2000. XVI, 4134 S. The magazine database (ZDB) offers more current information on magazine holdings . Likewise, due to the above. Holdings written: Ralph Lansky: Bibliographisches Handbuch der Rechts- und Verwaltungswissenschaften (BHRV) = Bibliographical handbook of law and public administration. Volume 1-3. Klostermann, Frankfurt a. M. 1987-1999. The BHRV was substantially expanded and continued in 2013 by Gerd Hoffmann, Ralph Lansky, Raimund-Ekkehard Walter: Neue juristische Bibliographien und Andere Informationsmittel (NJBI) = New legal bibliographies and other information sources. Hoffmann, Schifferstadt 2013 (also with many internet bibliographies).
  85. ^ Library of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.
  86. ^ Felix Lange: Carl Bilfinger's denazification and the decision for Heidelberg. The founding history of the Max Planck Institute under international law after the Second World War. In: Journal for foreign public law and international law 74 (2014) pp. 697–731. ISSN  0044-2348 .
  87. ^ Library of the Max Planck Institute for International and Foreign Private Law.
  88. ^ Library of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law in Luxembourg
  89. ↑ Jürgen Christoph Gödan: Typology of libraries with holdings on foreign and international law. In: Festschrift for Dietrich Pannier ... (2010), p. 259.
  90. ↑ On the foundation and development of the library in Lausanne, cf. Frank C. Chapman II: The library of the Swiss Institute for Comparative Law in Lausanne: a model to emulate? In: Festschrift for Jan Štěpán on his 80th birthday. Schulthess, Zurich, 1994, pp. 295-319. ( Publications de l'Institut suisse de droit comparé. 23.) ISBN 3-7255-3198-6 .
  91. ^ Library of the Supreme Court
  92. ↑ See e.g. B. Daniel Schunk: Court libraries in the Hanover region. Presentation of the functions, services and perspectives in their role as legal information conveying institutions. Library of the Hanover University of Applied Sciences, Hanover, 2003. (Diploma thesis.) (Online.)
  93. ^ Library of the Federal Court of Justice
  94. ^ Library of the Federal Administrative Court
  95. ^ Library of the Federal Labor Court
  96. ^ Library of the Federal Social Court ( Memento from February 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  97. ^ Central library of the Supreme Court in Vienna. ( Memento from May 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  98. ^ Constitutional Court of Austria
  99. ^ Library of the Swiss Federal Court, Lausanne. ( Memento from February 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  100. ^ Library of the Berlin House of Representatives
  101. ↑ Austrian Parliamentary Library
  102. ↑ Yearbook of the German Libraries 66. 2015/16 (2015) p. 36
  103. ↑ Yearbook of the German Libraries 66. 2015/16 (2015) p. 216
  104. ^ Federal Administrative Library
  105. ↑ See also Martina Kuth: Practical Management in One Person Libraries. De Gruyter Saur, Berlin, 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-033872-0 .
  106. ↑ German Notary Institute
  107. ↑ With two levels (layers): institute, university (examples: Hamburg, Würzburg); with three levels (layers): institute, department / faculty, university (examples: Bonn, Zurich).
  108. ↑ Ralph Lansky: Handbook of Legal Libraries (1993), p. 8.
  109. ↑ University libraries are only listed if there is a legal department in the respective university. Exception: Speyer University Library.
  110. ↑ In 2005 emerged from the Senckenbergische Bibliothek and the Frankfurt City and University Library.
  111. ↑ University library of the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder)
  112. ↑ Giessen University Library
  113. ↑ Hagen University Library
  114. ^ Hengeler Mueller Library of the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg
  115. ^ Library of the University of Konstanz
  116. ↑ Osnabrück University Library
  117. ↑ University Library Passau
  118. ^ Speyer University Library
  119. ^ Trier University Library
  120. ^ Library of the EBS University of Economics and Law Wiesbaden
  121. ↑ Until 2006 under the name Bibliothèque publique et universitaire de Genève / Geneva Public University Library .
  122. ↑ The holdings of the Faculty of Law are located in the ZHB Lucerne. A legal library of its own no longer exists since 2011.
  123. ↑ University Library St. Gallen
  124. ↑ Ralph Lansky: Handbook of Legal Libraries (1993), p. 9.
  125. ^ Collection order from the German National Library.
  126. ↑ For more information on the individual series, cf. at: German National Bibliography .
  127. ^ OPAC of the German National Library
  128. ↑ The original special collection area “Law” at the Heidelberg University Library came to an end in 1974.
  129. ↑ The DFG was founded in 1949. Their tasks also include supporting academic libraries .
  130. ↑ For the current conception of the collecting activity, cf. Ivo Vogel / Christian Mathieu: Legal specialist information supply in transition - On the transformation of the special collection area law into a specialist information service for international and interdisciplinary legal research. In: Law, Library, Documentation 44 (2014) pp. 1–14. ISSN  0935-2538 .
  131. ^ Ivo Vogel / Angela Pohl: The Virtual Law Library. Specialized portal for law? In: Law, Library, Documentation 36 (2006) pp. 110-128. ISSN  0935-2538 .
  132. ↑ The "public libraries" is public libraries, which used to be " public libraries " were mentioned. - In some places the expression “Volksbücherei” is still common, but renaming has been considered for decades because the Volksbücherei sounds too “ folkish ”.
  133. ↑ Many old council libraries have been incorporated into the holdings of the city libraries, such as B. in the University and City Library of Cologne and the Nuremberg City Library (the oldest city library in the German-speaking area).
  134. ↑ Libraries from 500,000 volumes / media units of legal literature. In the case of universal libraries, the proportion of legal literature was estimated. Information from the respective library on Lansky's Handbook of Legal Libraries (1993, recording scheme there p. 32 under 12) was taken into account in the estimate . The total number of volumes / media units in each universal library has been added in brackets. - See also the list of the largest libraries in Germany .