Law Library

The Pence Law Library is central to legal research for Washington College of Law students and faculty. In addition to extensive holdings of legal publications and periodicals, the Law Library provides access to databases such as LexisNexis,Westlaw, HeinOnline, BloomburgBNA, ProQuest Congressional, and WorldCat, as well as the websites and catalogs of thousands of other libraries worldwide, including the Library of Congress, the libraries of all members of the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC) and the libraries of all other area law schools. Services to WCL alumni include off site access to HeinOnline, JStor, and Academic Search, Alumni Edition. All holdings and databases can be searched through the Law Library’s catalog, LEAGLE, at http://leagle.wcl.american.edu/.

The library’s special collections include depositories of US and European Union documents; the Goodman Collection of Rare Law Books; the Richard Baxter Collection in International Law; a collection of litigation documents, including transcripts from the Iran Contra Controversy of the late 1980s; and the archives of the former National Bankruptcy Review Commission. A special collection of legal fiction containing over 1400 titles was also recently added. For more information on the Pence Law Library, go to: http://library.wcl.american.edu/.