COMPARATIVE LAW AND THE INTERNET Normann Witzleb, Dieter Martiny, Ulrich Thoelke and Tim Frericks European University Viadrina, Frankfurt(Oder (updated August 2002) Readers are reminded that this work is protected by copyright. While they are free to use the ideas expressed in it, they may not copy, distribute or publish the work or part of it, in any form, printed, electronic or otherwise, except for reasonable quoting, clearly indicating the source. Readers are permitted to make copies, electronically or printed, for personal and classroom use. Contents 1. Introduction 2. Legal information on the Internet 2. Reference material 2.2CO 2. 1 Primary sources 2.2.2 Secondary sources 3. Specific usefulness of the Internet for comparative lawyers 3.1 Accessibility 3.2 Searchability 3.3 Authenticity 3. 4 Up-to-dateness 4. How to search legal material on the Internet 4. I Search engines 4.2 Legal indices 5. The virtuelle Rechtsvergleicher' 5. 1 Concept 5.2 Structure 5.3 5.3.1 Legal fields 5.3. 2 The countries 5. 4 The categories 6. Concluding remarks NotesCOMPARATIVE LAW AND THE INTERNET Normann Witzleb, Dieter Martiny, Ulrich Thoelke and Tim Frericks European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) (updated August 2002) Readers are reminded that this work is protected by copyright. While they are free to use the ideas expressed in it, they may not copy, distribute or publish the work or part of it, in any form, printed, electronic or otherwise, except for reasonable quoting, clearly indicating the source. Readers are permitted to make copies, electronically or printed, for personal and classroom use. Contents 1. Introduction 2. Legal information on the Internet 2.1 Reference material 2.2 Content material 2.2.1 Primary sources 2.2.2 Secondary sources 3. Specific usefulness of the Internet for comparative lawyers 3.1 Accessibility 3.2 Searchability 3.3 Authenticity 3.4 Up-to-dateness 4. How to search legal material on the Internet 4.1 Search engines 4.2 Legal indices 5. The 'virtuelle Rechtsvergleicher' 5.1 Concept 5.2 Structure 5.3 Scope 5.3.1 Legal fields 5.3.2 The countries 5.4 The categories 6. Concluding remarks Notes