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Law
Library Collections
The Library’s comprehensive collection covers Anglo-American,
foreign, comparative, and international law, and includes
legislation, court reports, and appropriate administrative material
from all U.S. jurisdictions, Great Britain and the Commonwealth,
Europe, and most Asian and South American countries.
The Library is a depository for documents of
the European Union, and was the first such depository in an American
university, in 1957. It
is also a selective depository for U.S. government publications, and
extensively collects documents of international intergovernmental
organizations.
The Library seeks to provide a complete,
worldwide collection of primary material, and a research-level
collection of secondary and research resources in print, microform,
and computer formats.
There is special depth in the collections
relating to indigenous people, including Native Americans; French coutumes; pre-Soviet Russia; early American session laws and court
reports; Roman law; foreign law, and international law.
The Library has the complete microfiche set of 19th and
20th Century Legal Treatises, with full cataloging: and has all
United Nations documents on microfiche, as well as microform and
paper League of Nations documents.
As of July 1, 2001, the Library owned 877,000
volumes and 277,000 titles, and had 9,315 active serial
subscriptions.
Materials do not circulate out of the building.
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