Central Library

Mr. Stéphane GIVKOVIC

The library is open to all members of the public, subject to compliance with the terms of access to the courthouse and copyright legislation.

• Free access to the collection
• On-site consultation, no loans for the external public
• Paid photocopies (photocopy cards available at the reception desk)
• 10 workplaces with electrical outlets and free wifi
• 2 PCs available for your research in the catalogue

Consult the library’s rules of use.

Are you looking for legal documentation?

Our swisscovery catalogue allows you to browse through some 10'000 books and 450 periodical titles, and to access the collections of more than 470 academic and scientific libraries throughout Switzerland.

Consult our catalogue

• As the Central Library of the Judiciary Power is a reference library, registration with the Swiss Library Service Platform is not necessary to use its resources. However, in order to use the services of the other libraries in the same network, you must be registered (free of charge), according to the following procedure: How to create your account in Swiss Library Service Platform.
   
• Each document is classified according to the francophone legal classification, detailed in the classification plan of the collection.
   
• All services can be found in our user guide.

The new acquisitions:

• Mars 2025 or directly in the catalogue swisscovery
• Février 2025 
• Janvier 2025 
• Décembre 2024 
• Novembre 2024 
• Octobre 2024 
• Septembre 2024
• Juillet-Août 2024
• Juin 2024 
• Mai 2024 
• Avril 2024 
• Mars 2024 

The commentaries:

• Commentaire romand
• Petit commentaire
• Basler Kommentar
• Berner Kommentar
• Zürcher Kommentar

The memorial of the cantonal Parliament sessions of the Republic and canton of Geneva, in its entirety (1829 ->)

LexFind: search in all the legislation of the cantons and the Confederation. Access to old versions of laws.
 

The case-law reports (complete collections):

• Arrêts du Tribunal fédéral (ATF)
• Semaine judiciaire (SJ)
• Journal des tribunaux (JDT)

List of all available journals.

• More than 70 E-Books
• Capitalisator software (accompanies the Stauffer, Schaetzle, Weber capitalization tables and programs, and permanently replaces manual calculation using these tables)
• Various other library catalogs

The service occasionally produces thematic bibliographies, in connection with current events or events taking place within the central library or the Judicial power.

• Mediation and out-of-court settlements: bibliographie
  A selection of works introducing mediation, an out-of-court dispute resolution method that is still too little known.
   
• Paralegal corner: bibliographies
  A selection of works (novels, essays, comics, DVDs, etc...) dealing with the world of justice, forensics, lawyers, courts, judges, etc... They can be found under three headings:
• Paralegal (GE): Geneva 
• Paralegal (P): general 
• Paralegal (R): novels