Reference librarians would be happy to provide research instruction for you or for your students in person or via Zoom. We can join your class or arrange special sessions to teach your students how to conduct research in specific areas. Contact Ben Doherty to discuss these programs.
Each semester we ask you if there are books or other materials you would like to put on reserve for your students, and send you (if applicable) a list of items previously on reserve for each course. Please contact Tim Breeden for more information.
Interested in assigning Open Educational Resources (OER, also known as open access textbooks) for your course? We've got a list of strong options here.
Though the Law Library no longer routinely makes copies of past exams available to students, we encourage faculty members to donate copies to our archives. Faculty members who wish to make past exams available to their students should post them to their Canvas course pages. Law IT can assist with this process for recent (post-2013) exams. Contact Special Collections if you need copies of older exams.
The Law Library provides a full range of services to support faculty research and teaching, from answering complex reference queries to supplying legal and nonlegal books, journal articles, and photocopies. Refdesk can help with any inquiry about the library, including:
Reference librarians can also be reached by telephone at (434) 924-7465. Please contact Amy Wharton if you have questions about the scope of Refdesk service.
Every faculty member is registered upon arrival for borrowing privileges at the Law Library and other UVA libraries. Most books are checked out to faculty for an indefinite loan period, although they are subject to recall if needed by another patron.
Faculty are not typically charged overdue fines. However, failure to respond to an overdue or recall notice may result in suspension of library services by other UVA Libraries. Faculty who have lost a book or just need to keep the book longer than the original loan period should contact the Reference Desk (refdesk@law.virginia.edu) for help.
The Law Library offers access to the online edition of The Bluebook. You will need to renew your access annually.
Citations to internet sources are subject to "link rot," a phenomenon where links to cited sources eventually break (sometimes before a work is even published), preventing access by future readers. Perma.cc is a free service that allows authors to create links to archival copies of open web resources, subject to applicable copyright laws. The Law Library administers the Law School's perma.cc accounts. Signing up for an affiliated account will allow you to create an unlimited number of permanent links to the web resources you cite. We can also create accounts for your RAs. Cite a perma.cc link according to the Bluebook, 20th ed., rule 18.2.1(d), e.g.:
The Law School has a Scholastica account for electronic submission of manuscripts to your choice of law reviews. For shorter opinion pieces, submission criteria and procedures for op-eds in more than 100 U.S. newspapers are available from The OpEd Project.
Law Journals: Submissions and Ranking, from Washington & Lee School of Law, classifies and ranks law reviews based on subject matter, impact, and number of citations in journals and legal opinions, and also provides manuscript submission instructions. Information for Submitting Articles to Law Reviews & Journals, by Allen Rostron and Nancy Levit at UMKC School of Law, provides submission guidelines for more than 200 law reviews.
UVA Libraries support open scholarship. Find out how we can help.
Libra is UVA's open-access repository for long-term preservation of scholarship produced by its faculty. It allows UVA faculty members to make completed versions of their works (e.g., preprints and published articles) freely available to the general public for non-commercial research and scholarship. Making works freely available through a central, stable storage location makes them more widely accessible to researchers. While it is virtually impossible to guarantee that any work will be retrievable in absolute perpetuity, UVA does provide reasonable assurance that secure backup procedures and data management techniques will be employed to preserve the scholarship deposited in Libra for as long as is feasible.
When you deposit a work in Libra, you grant UVA a non-exclusive right to distribute your work through the Libra website. You will want to carefully review the Libra website, particularly license options before you deposit any works.
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