FIU Law Library

The Florida International University College of Law Library is a research center designed to support the curriculum, teaching and scholarly work of the College’s faculty, students and staff. Use of the Law Library is reserved for members of the College of Law community and persons using Law Library resources to conduct legal research.

During regularly scheduled reference hours, law librarians are available to help library users identify resources that are useful in the legal research process. Librarians may not give legal advice, perform legal research for others, interpret the meaning of legal materials, nor suggest what legal principles might apply in any given situation or set of facts.

The primary responsibilities of the law librarians are to support the teaching and scholarship activities of the College of Law and to help library users access Law Library resources. The Law Library staff of seventeen includes six full-time, professional librarians and two part-time librarians. All staff members work to enhance the collection and to make library materials both discoverable and accessible.

With over 245,000 volumes and volume equivalents, the core print collection is comprised of U.S. federal and state legal materials, publications related to foreign and international law, and a rapidly growing collection of Latin American legal materials. The Library’s resources also include a wide variety of specialized legal databases, including access to thousands of e-books and digitized legal treatises.

The Library offers study rooms, computer workstations, a computer lab, study carrels and wireless internet access to students of the College of Law. All Library users have access to the Library’s electronic resources, including the web-based library catalog, subscription databases, and selected Web resources.