The Anthology of Swiss Legal Culture makes available a collection of classic and contemporary texts charting Swiss contributions and papers on transcultural influences across various fields of the law. The Anthology is an online work in progress in the English language. The platform offers the editors the opportunity to update, refine and expand introductory texts and to gradually extend it to areas of law not yet covered. Purpose and goals of the Anthology The Anthology of Swiss legal culture brings together a collection of seminal texts made available either in the original language or in English translation and to link them to an introduction and a biography of the author in English. The very purpose of the project is to make these texts available online to a wider community of interested legal and other scholars and practicing lawyers. Swiss law is mainly dealt with in German, French and Italian, and much of it thus remains inaccessible to the world at large. Many do not have access to the rich legal tradition of federalist Switzerland and its legal institutions strongly embedded in the continental European tradition, but also with its succinct institutions rooted in direct democracy and a long standing communitarian tradition of decentralised powers. The collection will facilitate access for all persons taking an interest in Switzerland and the legal culture and particularities of the legal traditions of the country beyond black letter law and court rulings. It is thus also of interest in particular to historians and political scientists. The collection offers insights into contributions written by Swiss authors on various aspects of general legal developments. This angle is predominant up to World War II as there was a remarkable influence on the foundations of public international law at that time originating in Switzerland and Geneva in particular. The first multilingual federacy and democracy largely modelled upon the US Constitution and given its geographical location in the middle of Europe, Switzerland was strongly exposed to international relations and was able to develop an active role in the early days of the Republic, offering a model for European integration. At the same time, Switzerland has been exposed to foreign legal cultures, in particular German, French and Italian ones, based upon shared principles rooted of Roman law, which have had a strong influence on Swiss law and legal culture. Subsequently, in particular after World War II, foreign influences on Swiss law