Collection of Swiss Law Sources
The Collection of Swiss Law Sources is a collection of critical editions of historical legal documents created on Swiss territory from the early Middle Ages up to 1798.
It is edited by the Law Sources Foundation of the Swiss Lawyers Society. The Law Sources Foundation was established in 1894 for this purpose.
Since then, over 100 volumes of source material from the early Middle Ages until early modern
times have been published in the form of source editions.
The primary sources are manuscripts written in various regional
historical forms of German, French, Italian, Rhaeto-Romance languages, and Latin, which were transcribed.
Since 2018, the digitally compiled editions have been freely available online in the . On 1 May 2020, the Legal Sources Foundation founded the association e-editiones together with other editing companies in order to jointly develop the publication tool TEI Publisher, among other things.
Presidents
- 1894–1921 Andreas Heusler
- 1921–1935 Walther Merz
- 1935–1960 Hermann Rennefahrt
- 1960–1966 Jacob Wackernagel
- 1966–1988 Hans Herold
- 1988–2006 Claudio Soliva
- 2006–present Lukas Gschwend