A core collection of heavily-used and essential materials from our legal, non-legal, interdisciplinary, and international law collections are located on floors 2, 3 and 4.
The Law Library collects primary and secondary legal materials from the United States and most other countries, along with international organizations, permitting in depth research of all kinds. Use CLIO to search both our onsite collections as well as the materials housed in offsite storage facilities.
- The International Law Collection at the Law Library includes more than 60,000 titles in the areas of public and private international law, with an emphasis on arbitration, intellectual property, international organizations, and human rights.
- Take the elevator down to the cellar level to browse a significant collection of foreign and comparative law materials as well as additional research materials covering U.S. federal and state law, and selected non-legal and interdisciplinary materials.
- The cellar level also houses the Toshiba Library for Japanese Legal Research, the largest Japanese law library among U.S. academic institutions. The collection holds approximately 40,000 volumes, including 22,000 monographic and 600 serial titles. Law Library visitors can also explore online legal databases of legislative materials, indexes to cases and periodical articles, full-text journals, e-books, and cases from the end of the 19th century to the present, including TKC Law Library and Westlaw Japan.
- The Law Library’s Special Collections is home to an impressive rare book and manuscript collection, as well as archival materials related to the history of Columbia Law School.