E-laws/primary sources
This section refers to federal and cantonal legal sources, collections of laws from other countries and United Nations treaties.
Federal law
- Systematic Compilation of Federal Law
- Official Compilation of Federal Law (1998-)
- Official Compilation of Federal Legislation (1948-1998)
- Entry into force of exemptions published in the Official Compilation of Federal Law
- Federal Gazette
- Consultation procedure
- Official Bulletin (online from 2000),(digitized version 1891-1999)
- Curia Vista (Parliament's business database)
- Legislation projects (Federal Office of Justice)
- Database of international treaties
- Collection of legislation on sectoral agreements
- Negotiations of the Federal Assembly (1891-1995)
Canton of Basel-Stadt
- Systematic and chronological collection of laws (incl. municipal law)
- Cantonal Gazette
- Businessand documents of the Grand Council (systematically online from 2005)
- Business and reports of the Government Council
- Minutes of the Grand Council
Canton of Baselland
Other cantons and the Confederation
- LexFind: Contains all systematic collections in Switzerland and offers a full-text search in all or individual cantons, direct access with systematic number and canton pages for specific searches in an individual canton.
- Austria: Legal Information System
- France: Les codes en vigueur (Legifrance)
- Germany: Current laws and regulations (Federal Ministry of Justice / juris GmbH)
- Italy: Altalex
- Liechtenstein: Legal database LILEX (Liechtensteinische Landesverwaltung)
- UK and Ireland: BAILII
- US: Legal Information Insitute
- Member states of the European Union: N-Lex
- European Union: EU Community law in force (EUR-Lex), summary by subjects
- Council of Europe: Treaties, Documents
- International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID): Resources
- International Committee of the Red Cross: Treaties, States Parties and Commentaries
- International Labor Organization: NORMLEX - Database
- International Law Commission: Sessions and Reports
- United Nations: High Commissioner for Human Rights: General Comments
- United Nations: United Nations Resources & Documents (Resolutions, Meeting Records, Voting, Annexes, Index to Proceedings..)
- United Nations: United Nations Treaty Series
E-Jurisdiction
This section provides notice of misconduct in the case law of the federal government, cantons and international courts.
- Federal court decisions from 1954 onwards
- The case law: Federal Supreme Court decisions from volume 1 (1875)
- The practice from 1982
- Decisions of the Federal Criminal Court
- Decisions of the Federal Administrative Court
- Decisions of the Federal Patent Court
- Administrative practice of the federal authorities (VPB) from 2007 onwards
- decisionsearch.ch (published court decisions from Swiss courts of all instances)
- Aargau: Aargau court and administrative decisions (2000-)
- Appenzell Ausserrhoden: Case law of the high court
- Appenzell Innerrhoden: Administrative and court decisions
- Canton of Basel-Stadt: Case law of the Court of Appeal
- Basel-Landschaft: Case law of the Cantonal Court (2004-), rulings of the Tax Court Division (2000-), rulings of the Expropriation Court Division (2002-)
- Bern: Civil and criminal courts, administrative court, tax appeals commission and attorney supervisory authority
- Fribourg: Case law of the cantonal court
- Geneva: Geneva case law journals
- Glarus: Decision database of the courts
- Grisons: Cantonal and Administrative Court
- Jura: Current case law of the cantonal court
- Lucerne: Court and administrative decisions
- Neuchâtel: Case law of the cantonal court (2004-)
- Nidwalden: Decisions of the administrative, cantonal and supreme courts
- Obwalden: Administrative and administrative court decisions
- Schaffhausen: Decisions of the High Court (2000-)
- Schwyz: Decisions of the judicial and administrative authorities
- Solothurn: Solothurn court practice
- St. Gallen: Courts
- Ticino: Sentenze e decisioni
- Thurgau: Case law of the cantonal supreme court
- Uri: Cantonal case law
- Vaud: Case law of the cantonal court
- Valais: Case law (2005-)
- Zug: Court and administrative practice (GVP)
- Zurich: Zurich courts, administrative court, ZH rulings
- Deutschland: Bundesverfassungsgericht, oberste Gerichtshöfe des Bundes und Bundespatentgericht (ab 2010)
Internationale Gerichte: - African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS/TAS)
- Europäischer Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte (EGMR), Lists of Key Cases, Reports of Judgments and Decisions
- Gerichtshof der Europäischen Gemeinschaften (EuGH)
- Inter-American Court on Human Rights (IACHR)
- International Centre for Settlement of Investment Dispute (ICSID)
- International Court of Justice (ICJ) / Internationaler Gerichtshof (IGH)
- International Criminal Court (ICC) / Internationaler Strafgerichtshof (IStGH)
- International Criminal Tribunal (Ruanda)
- International Criminal Tribunal (Yugoslavia)
- International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) / Internationaler Seegerichtshof (ISGH)
- OSCE-Court of Conciliation and Arbitration / OSZE-Schieds- und Vergleichsgerichtshof
- Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ) / Ständiger Internationaler Gerichtshof (StIGH) (1922-1946)
- Special Court for Sierra Leone
- Venice Commission: e-Bulletin on Constitutional Case-Law
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