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

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 on Criminal Procedure Law

Major e-book platforms:

• beck-eBibliothek.DIE STUDIENLITERATUR
• beck-eLibrary.DIE FACHBIBLIOTHEK
• Nomos eLibrary – Law
• SpringerLink – E-Books Law
• Oxford Scholarship Online – Law

Important Journals:

• DVBl. – Deutsches Verwaltungsblatt. Law and Economics Library 36 Z/v 3
• FamRZ – Zeitschrift für das gesamte Familienrecht. 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)
• The Parliament with the Permanent Supplement From Politics and Contemporary History (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).

• 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, Rechtswörterbuch (Weber, Legal Dictionary), 31. Ed. 2023

• Specialized Information Service for International and Interdisciplinary Legal Research
• Specialized Information Service for Criminology
• Virtual Specialist Library for International and Interdisciplinary Legal Research

• Junge Wissenschaft im Öffentlichen Recht
• Verfassungsblog. On Matters Consitutional
• Völkerrechtsblog. International Law International & Legal Thought

• 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

• 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 Acquisitions Law

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

Cataloging systems at our locations

• Department of Law at JGU Faculty 03
• Office of Student Affairs Law
• International Office Law
• Student Body of Law