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Federal Republic of Germany: Location: Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany: Coordinates: Composition method: Election by Bundestag and Bundesrat: Authorised by: Basic Law for Germany: Judge term length: 12 years (mandatory retirement at 68) Number of positions: 16: Annual budget
Germany's legal system is a civilian system whose highest source of law is the 1949 Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (which serves as the nation's constitution), which sets up the modern judiciary, but the law adjudicated in court comes from the German Codes; thus, German law is primarily codal in nature.
Theodor Baums studied law and Catholic theology at the University of Bonn and completed his legal studies in 1974 with his first state examination followed by the second in 1977. Until 1985 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Commercial and Business Law at the University of Bonn where he wrote his dissertation in 1980 and his ...
In May 1949, the Basic Law (Grundgesetz) was enacted, establishing the Federal Republic of Germany. Article 96(1) of the Basic Law provided that "higher federal courts shall be established for the spheres of ordinary, administrative, finance, labour and social jurisdiction."
The Joint Senate [1] of the Supreme Courts of the Federation (Gemeinsamer Senat der Obersten Gerichtshöfe des Bundes (GmS-OGB), [2] also called the Joint Senate) is an institution established to ensure the uniformity of the case law of the Federal Supreme Courts of the Federal Republic of Germany.
In Germany's federal system, the administration of justice, the judiciary and law enforcement are primarily the responsibility of the Länder. The central task of the Federation in the field of justice is to safeguard and develop the rule of law. Legislative activity corresponds to this objective.
In Germany, federal courts (German: Bundesgerichte pronounced [ˈbʊndəsɡəˌʁɪçtə] ⓘ, singular Bundesgericht) are courts which are established by federal law. According to article 92 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany , the judiciary power is exercised by the Federal Constitutional Court , the federal courts provided ...
The law of Germany (German: Recht Deutschlands), that being the modern German legal system (German: deutsches Rechtssystem), is a system of civil law which is founded on the principles laid out by the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, though many of the most important laws, for example most regulations of the civil code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, or BGB) were developed prior to ...