Switzerland

For information about the Swiss law and legal research materials, see:

• The summary of Swiss law is published in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest for Switzerland;
• The Swiss Legal System and Research by Gregory M. Bovey;
• Introduction to the Swiss Legal System: A Guide for Foreign Researchers by Fridolin M.R. Walther;
• The Guide to Law Online: Switzerland by the Library of Congress; and
• The resources discussed in the “Foreign Laws” entry of this Guide.

Business: Contact information for Swiss companies is posted athttps://zefix.admin.ch/english.htm. Profiles of Swiss companies are available in the Creditreform Swiss Companies database on Lexis (COMPNY;VVSCS0). See also “Company Information” and “Doing Business in Foreign Countries.”

The Legal History of Switzerland

This section provides an overview of Switzerland legal history.

Switzerland and Europe

There is an entry on switzerland in the European legal encyclopedia.

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See Also

• International Organization
• Foreign Relations
• Intergovernmental Organization
• Regional Organization
• Regional Integration

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Further Reading

• Entry “Switzerland” in the work “A Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union from Aachen to Zollverein”, by Rodney Leach (Profile Books; London)

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See Also

• Legal Biography
• Legal Traditions
• Historical Laws
• History of Law

Further Reading

• Switzerland in the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (Oxford University Press)
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History (Oxford University Press)
• Switzerland in the Dictionary of Concepts in History, by Harry Ritter
• A Short History of Western Legal Theory, by John Kelly

Centre William Rappard and the GATT Policy Negotiations

In relation to the GATT Policy Negotiations, Christopher Mark (1993) provided the following explanation and/or definition of Centre William Rappard: Formal name of the GATT headquarters building in Geneva.

Hierarchical Display of Switzerland

Geography > Political geography > Council of Europe countries

Switzerland

Concept of Switzerland

See the dictionary definition of Switzerland.

Characteristics of Switzerland

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Translation of Switzerland

• Spanish: Suiza
• French: Suisse
• German: Die Schweiz
• Italian: Svizzera
• Portuguese: Suíça
• Polish: Szwajcaria

Thesaurus of Switzerland

Geography > Political geography > Council of Europe countries > Switzerland

See also

• Sale
• Retail selling
• Wholesale selling
• Distance selling
• Credit sale
• Selling at a loss
• Discount sale
• Door-to-door selling
• Duty-free sale
• Auction sale
• Direct selling

• Exclusive distribution agreement
• Refusal to sell
• Distributive trades
• Marketing restriction
• Marketing
• Refusal to sell
• Voluntary restraint agreement
• Selective distribution agreement
• Distributive trades
• Specialisation agreement
• Organisation of production
• Tied sales outlet
• Sale

• Helvetic Confederation
• Swiss Confederation