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Law of GermanyGermany
The land of the Basic Law and the Civil Code: a federal Republic built on human dignity, the rule of law and a powerful Constitutional Court, with five branches of courts and a legal science that has influenced legal systems around the world. Free articles, organized by subject, growing every week.
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This portal collects material specific to German law, a civil-law system with its own method, its own vocabulary and its own training for lawyers, which also applies European Union law. Each of the sixteen federal states (the Länder) has some laws and courts of its own. Everywhere else on this site, content reflects US law unless a page says otherwise.
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German Law
A first course in German law: the Civil Code and the sources of law, the Basic Law and the Federal Constitutional Court, the five branches of courts, fundamental rights and administrative law, private law, business and employment law, and criminal law and procedure.
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The Civil Law Tradition
Where the German Civil Code comes from and what it shares with France and the legal systems of continental Europe, Latin America and Asia: the Roman roots, the great codes and legal science.
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