Core Collection: U.S. Law
The library has a comprehensive collection of :
Federal statutes, federal and state reporters, federal legislative history materials as well as Louisiana legislative history materials (the Law Library is both a federal and a Louisiana Depository)
Administrative Regulations (state and federal)
State statutes (Statutes that are up-to-date in paper form include: Louisiana, Texas, Florida, California, and New York. Other state statutory compilations ceased to be updated in 2004).
The library has current digests for:
Other Secondary Sources: U.S. Law
The law school subscribes to the majority of:
International and Comparative Law / Foreign Law
The library strives toward building a comprehensive collection of foreign material from various countries to support the school's curriculum and the interests of its student body and faculty members. To that end, the foreign collection supports a variety of subjects in the curriculum, faculty research, and the Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law. It contains substantial periodicals and books, a wide range of yearbooks, up-to-date codes from various countries, several foreign case reports, and some loose-leaf services. The library also collects comparative law materials to support the curriculum and research, predominantly in English. The library subscribes to several major looseleaf services, such as Constitutions of the Countries of the World, and it acquires the most important comparative law journals published.
Audiovisual
Audiovisual materials are located at the back of the Reserve Room. These items are designated as "Media" in the library's catalog. In most cases, audiovisual material will circulate to persons for three hours. Playback carrels for individual use of audio and video tapes are located on the fourth floor. Headphones may be checked out from the Circulation Desk. The Library does not provide space or equipment for group viewing. The audiovisual collection includes DVDs, CDs, video tapes, cassette tapes, movies, in-house productions, make up classes, and practice series CDs or tapes designed with the law student in mind.
Reserve/Reference Collections
The Reserve collection is located in the open-access Reserve Room. The Reserve collection contains hornbooks, nutshells, restatements, current issues of legal newspapers, as well as course material which your professors might have asked us to make available to you. The Reference collection, housed behind the Circulation Desk, includes many types of directories, dictionaries, and guides to law materials. Patrons requesting use of these materials should have a valid ID. Non-law patrons must leave the ID at the desk for the time that they have the materials. Holds for Reference, Reserve, or other non-circulating materials are not available.
Reference
Library items designated as "Reference" may not be checked out for use outside the library. Reference materials are located behind the Circulation Desk. If they are taken from behind the Circulation Desk they are checked out for three hours of use within the library. Faculty may check out Reference items for one year. The Circulation Desk supervisor or law librarians may give special permission to law students for Reference items to be used outside the library for a short period of time.
Reading Room
The Reading Room is located adjacent to the Reserve Room on the third floor of the library. Located here are copies of the United States Code Annotated, Louisiana Statutes Annotated, Southern Reporter, Federal Reporter, 2007 Code of Federal Regulations, Martindale-Hubell, and the Louisiana Administrative Code. None of the Reading Room materials are circulating. Please do not remove them from the area.
Reserve
Reserve books are intended to be used in the Reading Room. Therefore, these books cannot be checked out for use in other parts of the library. The "Course Reserves" link in the online catalog will allow a student to see what materials a professor has placed on reserve. This function should be used to discover the titles and call numbers of items for easier retrieval. Books are shelved in the Reserve Collection (adjacent to the Reading Room) and photocopiers are kept at the Circulation Desk. Although reserve books must be used in the Reading Room, students may check out photocopies that have been placed on reserve by their professors. These items may circulate for three hours. Fines for overdue material are $6.00 for the first hour the item is overdue, plus $3.00 for each subsequent hour. Fines will be assessed until the photocopied item is returned or designated lost.
Other Collections
Our largest collections within the Law Library include: Special Collections; Federal Depository Collection; Louisiana Collection; Maritime Collection, and the Microforms Collection. In the sidebar to your right, you will see a link to a website discussing each of these collections in further detail.