General Information

The DePaul University College of Law Library contains over 377,000 volumes, including microforms, with over 4,600 serial subscriptions and special subject strengths that include tax, health law, human rights, and constitutional law. The collection consists principally of Anglo-American law including the law of the United States, its states and territories, Canada and Great Britain. Publications of international governmental organizations as well as the law of European, Asian, African, Latin American and other countries are acquired selectively. The Law Library has an outstanding collection of legal journals and periodicals from all the accredited United States law schools as well as selected British and Canadian, Australian journals and English language journals from other countries. This collection includes both general law reviews and subject oriented journals.

Annotated state statutes from all fifty states are housed in the Law Library, as well as the state or regional digests, state reports, including both currently published and those pre-dating the National Reporter System, and all regional reporters. There are multiple copies of all United States Supreme Court cases and the United States Code, both official and unofficial versions.

The Law Library's collection is housed on three floors:

Fourth Floor
Includes subject treatises, microforms, foreign law, international law, health law, and state materials.

Fifth Floor
Includes reference, reserve and federal materials, including hearings of 30 selected Congressional committees.

Sixth Floor
Includes law reviews, and comparative law sources, and the law of Canada and Great Britain.