Legal databases
The legal databases are only provided for members of the university in the context of teaching and research. A connection to the university network is required for access. Any commercial use is prohibited!
| Name | Content | Applications | Links |
| Federal Supreme Court expert search | Offers options such as cross-language search using descriptors, search for standards in CHLexML format, displays further references and allows you to define push filters for automatic notification of new decisions by the Federal Supreme Court. Swiss Federal Supreme Court Dataset (SCD) enables data analysis (see also Jusletter 18.09.23) | Select "Login for university members" and "University of Basel" and register with your Unibas account and password. | Search instructions |
| legalis | Includes the Basel commentary and journals of the Helbing Lichtenhahn Verlag. Praxis (online from Pra 71 (1982) No. 5) contains translations of decisions of the Federal Supreme Court (French/Italian) from the official collection. LexMachina offers language translations in the major commentaries. In Legalis-science you will find academic open access publications. | Select "University access" and agree to the terms of use (bottom left). | Search instructions |
| Swisslex | Includes Zurich and Bern commentaries, monographs, journals, legislation, federal court decisions and cantonal case law. LEX campus: Open Access series in Swisslex | You need to register with Swisslex, stating your Unibas account. You will receive the access data by e-mail after registration. The password may not be passed on. | Table of contents Registration Video tutorials |
| Weblaw Campus | Includes journals (Jusletter, Jusletter IT, Richterzeitung, ASA), dRSK, BFonline, legal bibliography, master's theses (see books: master's thesis series) and allows you to define push service decisions. | It is necessary to register with Weblaw, stating your Unibas account. You will receive the access data by e-mail after registration. The password may not be passed on. Only one application is required for the various Weblaw services. | Registration Sign up for Jusletter |
| Name | Contents | Info/applications | links |
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| beck-online | The university module contains commentaries, handbooks and journals (except JuS), mainly from the German Beck Verlag, as well as legislation and case law on German law and European law. The NomosOnline Federal Law module contains the entire applicable law of the Federal Republic of Germany in full text with around 160 commentaries on selected provisions. | If you want to limit your search to the licensed modules, check the box "My beck-online" under the search field. | Search instructions |
| Juris - the legal portal | Licensed are juris professional (case law, legislation, literature references, etc.), additional module higher education institutions (journals, commentaries and manuals from various publishers) and the Staudinger Commentary of the German Civil Code. |
The European e-Justice Portal Central electronic contact point for the justice sector in the EU with comprehensive information on the European Union and its member states:
- EUR-Lex (EU legislation and case law)
- Pre-Lex (legislative procedure)
- N-Lex (national law of the member states)
- Official Journal of the EU
- Case law of the EU courts
- JURE (jurisdiction and recognition of credits and grades in civil and commercial matters)
- EuroVoc (multilingual thesaurus of the European Union)
| Name | contents | links |
|---|---|---|
| CISG-online | Research platform with over 6,000 decisions on the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and other documents. A project developed and maintained by Professor Dr. Ulrich G. Schroeter and his team at the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel. | |
| FBL - Financial and Banking Law | Oxford Legal Research Library: Oxford University Press monographs on financial and banking law. | |
| Hein Online | Extensive collection of US, UK and Commonwealth legal materials with over 1,500 academic journals, decisions and international law. | Search guide |
| IBFD - Tax Research Platform | Monographs on international tax law | |
| IC - Investment Claims | Oxford University Press: Arbitral awards and decisions, bilateral investment treaties, multilateral treaties, journal articles and monographs on investment law. | |
| ICMA - International Commercial Arbitration | Oxford Legal Research Library: commentaries and handbooks on international commercial arbitration. | |
| ICML - International Commercial Law | Oxford Legal Research Library: commentaries and handbooks on international commercial law. | |
| Kluwer Arbitration | Journals, commentaries and monographs on international commercial arbitration published by Kluwer Verlag as well as decisions and legal sources. | |
| MOML - The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law | Legal history database with monographs and essays on various areas of law from 1600-1926. | |
| MOML - The Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources | Legal history database with source material from various European countries 1600-1979. | |
| MPECCoL - Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law | Oxford Constitutional Law: essays on all areas of constitutional law from a comparative perspective. | |
| New: MPIL - Max Planck Encyclopedias of Public International law | Oxford Public International Law: Includes the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law with articles on central subjects of international law and the Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law with articles on international procedural law. | |
| NCJRS - National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts | Summaries of worldwide publications in the field of criminal law (no full text, only references). | |
| Nexis Uni - incl. Shepard's Citations | Contains data from over 15,000 news, corporate and legal sources (USA, UK and Commenwealth). An intuitive interface allows users to search all sources and personalize their search with alerts, saved searches and other helpful features. | Search guide Shepard’s® Citation Formats |
| OHO - Oxford Handbooks Online - Law | Oxford Handbooks Online - Law. Also access to articles from unpublished handbooks that have already been made available. | |
| OSAIL - Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law | Oxford Public International Law: Reference works and treatises on international law from Oxford University Press. | |
| Westlaw US, UK & other countries | For Case law, legislation, international treaties and journals from the USA (see "Home"), the UK, Canada, Australia, Europe, Hong Kong, Korea and other countries. E.g. also World Intellectual Property Rights and Remedies. Applications: Agree to the "Academic User Agreement" and click "Continue". | Search instructions |
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