Library classification system
| Floor | Shelf mark | Area of law / subject area |
| 2nd basement floor: Compactus |
Diss | Mainly Swiss dissertations |
| 1st floor | A | General resources |
| 1st floor | B | General legal studies, Festschrifts, general periodicals |
| Detailed classification system A-B | ||
| 2nd floor | C | Interdisciplinary |
| 2nd floor | D | General and comparative legal history |
| 2nd floor | E | Roman law |
| 2nd floor | F | German legal history |
| 2nd floor | G | Swiss legal history |
| Detailed classification system C-G | ||
| 3rd floor | H | Swiss Civil Code |
| 3rd floor | J | Swiss Code of Obligations (including trade and securities law) |
| 3rd floor | K | Foreign civil law |
| 3rd floor | L | Foreign trade and securities law |
| 3rd floor | M | Private insurance law |
| Detailed classification system H-M | ||
| 4th floor | N | Commercial legal protection, media law, consumer protection |
| 4th floor | O | Mixed areas of law (Medical law, computer sciences and the law, trafic and transport law, sports law) |
| 4th floor | P | Civil and legal procedure, law of the legal profession and notary law |
| 4th floor | Q | Debt collection and insolvency law, law of enforcement |
| 4th floor | R | International civil law and civil procedure |
| Detailed classification system N-R | ||
| 5th floor | S | General and foreign constitutional and administrative law |
| 5th floor | T | Swiss constitutional and administrative law |
| Detailed classification system S-T | ||
| 6th floor | U | Ecclesiastical law |
| 6th floor | V | International and European law (including shelf mark Eu = European law) |
| 6th floor | W | Criminal law, criminal procedure law, criminology |
| 6th floor | X | Military law |
| 6th floor | Y | Youth law, youth protection |
| 6th floor | Z | Labour and employment law, social law |
| 6th floor | Zaa – | Acts and decrees |
| Detailed classification system U-Z | ||
| 6th floor: Side wing | BASIS | Study library: Current study and examination materials (latest editions only) |
| Classification system of the BASIS study library | ||