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Stämpfli Legal Premium brings the Swiss legal library of Stämpfli Verlag AG (Bern) into Libra — including the Berner Kommentar, the in-depth article-by-article commentary on the Swiss Civil Code (ZGB) and Code of Obligations (OR). It is an add-on module for Swiss teams: everything else in the Swiss catalogue is included with your subscription, this one is bought on top of it. It works through your normal research, not a separate database. When you ask a question, Libra searches the Stämpfli library alongside your other sources and the answer carries citations to the relevant Stämpfli works. Each citation is a link back to the cited document on Stämpfli’s own platform, so you can read the passage in full context.
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Cite the Berner Kommentar by article, “BK zu Art. 18 OR”, “BK zu Art. 28 ZGB”, and Libra pulls the entry. Click the citation to open the passage at Stämpfli.
The module is a single package covering Stämpfli’s commentaries, handbooks, textbooks, yearbooks and specialist journals in one searchable library, with unlimited use — there is no per-document or per-query charge. The catalogue is maintained and expanded over time. The works Libra names as the core of the package: Practice areas covered well: Swiss private law (ZGB, OR) at its core, extending to family law and criminal law through the commentary series, the textbooks and the journal portfolio.

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What you can ask

  • “Was sagt der Berner Kommentar zu Art. 18 OR zur Vertragsauslegung?”
  • “Aktueller FamPra.ch-Beitrag zum Betreuungsunterhalt?”
  • “ZStrR-Aufsatz zur Abgrenzung von Eventualvorsatz und bewusster Fahrlässigkeit?”
  • “Berner Kommentar zu Art. 28 ZGB: Voraussetzungen des Persönlichkeitsschutzes.”
Stämpfli Legal Premium is sold only to teams registered in Switzerland, and only as an add-on to an active Libra subscription — any plan (Starter, Professional or Team). You buy it inside Libra; there is nothing to connect and no credentials to enter.
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Open Team & Subscription → Subscription

Buying and assigning licenses is an owner or admin job. From the profile menu, open Team & Subscription, then the Subscription tab.
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Buy licenses under Stämpfli Licenses

The Stämpfli Licenses section holds a single card, Stämpfli Legal Premium, priced per license per year or month — Swiss teams can choose either billing period. Set the number of licenses you need, then complete checkout; the order summary asks you to accept the terms of use for Stämpfli alongside the Libra terms.
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Assign the licenses to team members

Licenses are held by the team and assigned to individual members on the Team Members tab, in the PACKAGES column. A member without an assigned license does not get the source.
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Use Stämpfli in Research

Once a member holds a license, Stämpfli appears in that member’s Research picker — provided Switzerland is one of that member’s jurisdictions, ticked in the Jurisdictions selector at the top of the panel, which is what makes every Swiss source visible. Switch it on for the chats where you want doctrine. See Research mode.
The module is bought inside Libra, on your team’s subscription page, and it rides on the Libra subscription: if the Libra subscription ends, the module ends with it. License counts can be increased at any time in the app — to reduce them, contact support.
Teams on a trial or pilot may have Stämpfli switched on for the trial rather than purchased; where that applies, the Settings → Integrations → Stämpfli panel carries a TRIAL ACCESS label. Buying is still open during a trial — the licenses join the same order as your Libra plan. To check what is active, open that same panel: it lists your available modules and offers Manage subscription instead of a Connect button, because access comes from your entitlement rather than a login. The buying and assigning mechanics are the same for every purchasable module — the detail lives on Subscription and Team management, and the general source-enablement flow on Setting up integrations. For volume pricing or help choosing a plan, contact the team at contact@libratech.ai.

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Combining with the other Swiss sources

Stämpfli is the publisher library in the Swiss catalogue; the other Swiss sources are open-access and included. One more commentary source, Onlinekommentar, is switched on per team rather than for every Swiss workspace — the full Swiss list and what each source covers is on the Switzerland page.

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Hosting, data protection & professional conduct

A common question for Swiss firms is whether a cloud tool hosted abroad can be used within the rules of professional conduct. An independent Swiss law firm confirmed that Libra can be used in line with Swiss professional-conduct and data-protection law, and that hosting in Germany and the EU raises no issue — there is no requirement for Swiss lawyers to host in Switzerland.
  • Where data lives. Libra runs on Deutsche Telekom servers in Germany; documents are stored encrypted in Germany. AI requests are processed on Microsoft and AWS infrastructure that always sits within the EU — data is never transferred outside the EU, and never to the US.
  • Confidentiality. Libra signs a data processing agreement (DPA) and a confidentiality agreement with every customer. Microsoft, AWS, and Deutsche Telekom are bound as auxiliary persons to legal professional secrecy (Art. 321 StGB in conjunction with Art. 13 BGFA), under a confidentiality obligation that continues beyond the end of the contract. Everyone who processes client data is instructed on confidentiality.
  • Swiss legal documents. The Swiss contract documents — Swiss General Terms, DPA, and confidentiality declaration — are available under Terms on the Libra website.
This is general information, not legal advice. A firm should still make its own risk-based assessment for sensitive matters — for example where the data location is itself part of the mandate. The governing documents are the contracts and the opinion of the instructed law firm.

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Tips

“BK zu Art. 8 ZGB” gets a tighter, faster answer than a topic-only question, and the citation links straight to that passage at Stämpfli.
Fedlex gives the in-force statutory text; Stämpfli gives the doctrine. Statute + commentary is the default Swiss research pattern.
Every Stämpfli passage Libra cites is a link to the cited document on Stämpfli’s platform — useful when you need the surrounding paragraphs, the footnotes, or something to quote verbatim in a brief.

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Common questions

Yes. Libra is a complete platform on its own, and the other Swiss sources — Fedlex, OpenCaseLaw, Entscheidsuche, Zefix — are included with your subscription. Stämpfli Legal Premium is an optional add-on.
No. You buy a number of licenses, then assign them to specific members on the Team Members tab. Only members holding a license see Stämpfli in their Research picker.
No. The module is offered only to teams whose registered country is Switzerland, so it does not appear on the subscription page of a German, Austrian or other non-Swiss team.
No. Libra has no Swisslex integration, and there is no way to attach a Swisslex subscription to your workspace.
No. You pay a fixed amount per license, per year or per month, and use of the library is unlimited — no per-document or per-query fees on top.

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Next steps

Switzerland

Every Swiss research source in Libra, and which are included.

Research mode

How to pick sources and read the citations in an answer.