Universitätsbibliothek Mainz

Law

Databases

Important databases:

beck-online.DIE DATENBANK

juris – The legal portal with remote access, without Staudinger

juris – The legal portal without remote access, with Staudinger

Kluwer Arbitration

Nexis Uni

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global

Wolters Kluwer online

Index to Legal Periodicals and Books

IBZ – International Bibliography of Periodical Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences

CJEU – Court of Justice of the European Union

Federal and state justice portal: Jurisdiction

Gutenberg Open Science
Mainz Open Access Publications from DDC Subject Group 340 (Law) 

Other databases:

DBIS – Law

Full texts

Important full-text collections:

Federal Law Gazette

Laws on the Internet

State law of Rhineland-Palatinate

EUR-Lex – Access to EU law

Deutscher Bundestag (German Federal Parliament) – Documents

Bundesrat (German Federal Council – Parliamentary documents

Other full-text collections:

DBIS – Law: Full-text database

E-books

Electronic textbooks on important learning areas:

Textbooks BGB AT

Textbooks Law of Obligations AT

Textbooks Law of Obligations BT

Textbooks Law of Obligations BT – Contractual Obligations

Textbooks Law of Obligations BT – Legal Obligations

Textbooks Corporate Law

Textbooks Commercial Law

Textbooks on Labor Law

Textbooks on Civil Procedure Law

Textbooks on State Organization Law

Textbooks on Fundamental Rights

Textbooks General Administrative Law

Textbooks Police and Regulatory Law

Textbooks on Administrative Procedure Law

Textbooks on European Law

Textbooks on International Law

Textbooks Criminal Law AT

Textbooks Criminal Law BT

Textbooks Criminal Law BT – Offences against the Person

Textbooks Criminal Law BT – Property Crimes

Textbooks Criminal Procedure Law

Textbooks Legal History

Textbooks Legal Philosophy

Textbooks Roman Law

Major e-book platforms:

beck-eBibliothek.DIE STUDIENLITERATUR

beck-eLibrary.DIE FACHBIBLIOTHEK

Nomos eLibrary – Law

SpringerLink – E-Books Law

Oxford Scholarship Online – Law

Journals

Important Journals:

DVBl. – Deutsches Verwaltungsblatt. Law and Economics Library 36 Z/v 3

FamRZ – Journal for all family law matters. Law and Economics Library 10 Z/e 1

NJW – Neue juristische Wochenschrift. Law and Economics Library 50 Z/n 2

NStZ – Neue Zeitschrift für Strafrecht. Law and Economics Library 28 Z/z 2

NVwZ – Neue Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht. Law and Economics Library 36 Z/v 1

WM – Wertpapier-Mitteilungen. Law and Economics Library 16 Z/w 1

ZIP – Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht. Law and Economics Library 15 Z/z 6

Important training journals:

JR – Juristische Rundschau. Law and Economics Library 50 Z/r 11

JURA – Legal Education. Law and Economics Library 50 Z/j 11

ZJS – Zeitschrift für das Juristische Studium

Other journals

EZB - Law

Newspapers:

Allgemeine Zeitung (daily)

Börsen-Zeitung (daily)

Das Parlament mit der ständigen Beilage Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (weekly)

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (daily)

Neue Zürcher Zeitung (daily)

Zeitung für kommunale Wirtschaft (monthly)

All newspapers can be found in the newspaper rack of the Law and Economics Library (ground floor, 2nd atrium, north side).

Reference books / dictionaries online

Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch (Dictionary of Historical German Legal Terms) (historical dictionary)

Kirchner, Abkürzungsverzeichnis der Rechtssprache (Kirchner book, abbreviations of German legal terminology), 10. Ed. 2021. Law and Economics Library 1 D/k 6

Online-Dictionary by Langenscheidt (including various Duden volumes and a specialist dictionary of German–English law)

Weber, Legal Dictionary, current edition

Specialized information services

Specialized Information Service for International and Interdisciplinary Legal Research

Specialized Information Service for Criminology

Virtual Specialist Library for International and Interdisciplinary Legal Research

Blogs

Junge Wissenschaft im Öffentlichen Recht

Verfassungsblog. On Matters Consitutional

Völkerrechtsblog. International Law International & Legal Thought

Educational Resources

Live courses and explanatory videos about beck-online. THE DATABASE

Live courses and explanatory videos on juris – The Legal Portal

Guided tours, courses and other events of the University Library

Local Institutions

Department of Law at JGU Faculty 03

Institute for German and International Law of Savings, Giro, and Credit at JGU

Institute of Forensic Medicine at the Mainz University Medical Center

Mainz Media Institute

New literature for you

New Acquisitions Law

Location Notice

The law textbook collection can be found in the Learning Center of the Law and Economics Library under the call number 26.

Cataloging systems at our locations

Law school

Department of Law at JGU Faculty 03

Office of Student Affairs Law

International Office Law

Student Body of Law

More information

International Directory of Legal Libraries

Law Library of Congress

Important professional societies and networks:

JGU Alumni Network of Law and Economics

DBJV – German-British Lawyers' Association

DFJ – German-French Lawyers' Association

DIJV – German-Italian Lawyers' Association

DJB – German Women Lawyers Association

DJT – Association of German Jurists

ELSA – The European Law Students' Association Mainz

Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers

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