Welcome to Berlin and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz!

Welcome to Berlin, the capital and largest city of Germany. Berlin is committed to its role as host and partner to the federal government's institutions and the other federal states, as well as to diplomatic missions, the media, national organizations and associations. The annual course in international law and legal information is the Association's main meeting and educational event of the year. The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Library) is proud to be the host of the 34th Annual Course on International Law and Legal Information. The theme of the conference is "Within and in between: German Legal Tradition in Times of Internationalization and Beyond." The chosen topics will reflect Germany’s legal history and will characterize unique perspectives on international and domestic law issues as well as legal information items. Speakers at the sessions will include highly regarded German legal scholars, legal practitioners and law librarians.

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin / One library on two sites

The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin was founded in 1661 and is the biggest universal research library in Germany with eleven million books and periodicals. It collects texts, media and cultural works from all fields in all languages, from all periods and all countries of the world, which are of interest for academic and research purposes. Among the more famous items in its collection are the oldest biblical illustrations, the 5th century so called Quedlinburg Itala fragment, a Gutenberg Bible, the main autograph collection of Goethe, the world's largest collection of Johann Sebastian Bach's and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's manuscripts, and the original score of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. It is an institution of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation), founded in the Federal Republic of German in 1957.

The Staatsbibliothek offers its services at two major public sites Haus Unter den Linden and Haus Potsdamer Straße. Haus Potsdamer Straße (near Potsdamer Platz / Kulturforum) is the conference venue. It opened in 1978, built after the plans of the famous architect Hans Scharoun. Haus Unter den Linden is the historic library building and was built between 1908 and 1914 by the court architect Ernst Eberhard von Ihne.

Conference Venue

Apart from the opening session, all conference lectures, vendor exhibits, and the IALL Annual General Meeting will take place in or in front of the Otto-Braun-Saal at the Staatsbibliothek’s modern building Haus Potsdamer Straße (Potsdamer Straße 33 / Kulturforum / near Potsdamer Platz).