Law Library

All returning law students, 1 L's, transfers, exchange students and L.L.M. students please spend some time on our newly redesigned web page. We think you will find it both user friendly and helpful as a point of entry for your research.

The library's new 'Escape Hatch' collection will help relieve the stress of law school. Books and videos in the escape hatch have a legal theme, an attorney as a character or an attorney as an author and are meant to be fun. The escape hatch collection is located adjacent to the open reserve collection.

Virginia's Circuit Court Judge Martin Clark's newest novel The Legal Limit has been added to the Escape Hatch Collection. The Washington Post called the book "a compelling legal thriller" and the New York Times has referred to the author as "the thinking man's John Grisham". Check out The Legal Limit and Clark's earlier work Plain Heathen Mischief from the Escape Hatch.

1. Anatomy of a Murder (Escape Hatch Collection)


2. Inherit the Wind (Escape Hatch Collection)


3. Judgement at Nuremberg (Escape Hatch Collection)


4. A Man for All Seasons (Escape Hatch Collection)


5. To Kill A Mocking Bird (Escape Hatch Collection)


6. Presumed Innocent (Escape Hatch Collection)


7. Death and the Maiden (Leyburn; coming to Escape Hatch Collection)


8. Reversal of Fortune (Escape Hatch Collection)


9. Witness for the Prosecution (Escape Hatch Collection)


10. Adam's Rib (Escape Hatch Collection)


This list coutesy of Christine Corcos and The National Jurist(Sept. 2008)

There is a reasonable man lurking in the library stacks...have you seen him?

The library is happy to announce the acquisition of BNA Online. This service provides electronic access to over one hundred of BNA's titles. The purchase of this service also permits access to the BNA titles via the Westlaw and Lexis interfaces as well as the BNA interface. For a complete list of the available titles, please go to the Law Library's research page available from the Law Library home page and click on BNA.