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Statutes & Case Law is Libra’s built-in source for German primary law: legislation and court decisions across the federal and Land courts — Bundesgerichtshof, Bundesverfassungsgericht, Bundesarbeitsgericht, Bundesfinanzhof, Bundesverwaltungsgericht, Bundessozialgericht, plus the 24 Oberlandesgerichte and selected Landgerichte and specialised courts. It is provided by Wolters Kluwer Online and included for German customers.
This source used to be called German Case Law and was powered by Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt. It now carries legislation as well as decisions, comes from Wolters Kluwer Online for every German customer, and appears as Statutes & Case Law throughout the product. Otto Schmidt stays available as a source you select yourself, for its commentary library.
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Anchor your prompt to a specific instance, “BGH-Linie zu §280 BGB seit 2023”, “OLG München zu Wettbewerbsverboten”, and Libra filters at retrieval.

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Court coverage

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How it shows up in Libra

Open Research in the composer and Statutes & Case Law appears in the source list as its own switch, as long as Germany is among the jurisdictions ticked at the top of the panel. It sits in the same flat list as the other German entries — Handelsregister, plus Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt and Wolters Kluwer Online for firms that have connected those subscriptions. Send your prompt and the collapsible research-steps strip above the answer records the step as Searching Statutes & Case Law while Libra works, then Searched Statutes & Case Law once it is done; open the strip if it is collapsed. See Research mode for the panel itself and Citations & sources for what the citation panel shows. Most of the time you don’t have to select it. German teams get Enable Statutes & Case Law in Settings → Chats, on by default: with it on, any chat model searches German statutes and case law on its own when a question calls for it, without you switching Research on first. Refresh the page after toggling it. Chat customization covers that tab in full.

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Setup

There is nothing to set up and nothing to connect. Statutes & Case Law is included for German customers — no Wolters Kluwer subscription and no Wolters Kluwer connection are needed, which is why it is marked Included in the country table on Content integrations. The subscription-only WK premium modules are a separate layer on top; see Wolters Kluwer Online.

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What you can ask

  • “What’s the prevailing BGH view on indemnity caps in M&A contracts?”
  • “Find recent OLG decisions on non-compete enforceability for senior employees.”
  • “Was verlangt § 626 BGB für eine fristlose Kündigung, und wie legt das BAG die Zwei-Wochen-Frist aus?”
  • “BVerfG-Rechtsprechung zur Datenschutz-Grundverordnung: Kerngehalt der jüngsten Urteile.”
  • “Welche Landesarbeitsgerichte haben die BAG-Linie zur Arbeitszeiterfassung übernommen?”

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Tips

“BGH-Rechtsprechung zu…” / “OLG-Linien zu…” tightens the answer to that instance.
Statutes and decisions tell you what the law says and how a court applied it. Add Otto Schmidt or Wolters Kluwer Online for the scholarly view on top.
“Recent BGH decisions since 2024…” / “OLG-Rechtsprechung der letzten zwölf Monate zu…” keeps the answer current.

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Next steps

Wolters Kluwer Online

The platform behind Statutes & Case Law, and the premium modules you can add on top.

Research mode

Use German statutes and court decisions in any chat.