Resources for UT Law Students  

Librarians who staff the reference desk have law degrees in addition to information science degrees. Feel free to ask us anything from "What is the ALR?" to the best research strategies for a seminar paper. Librarians with specializations in foreign and international law, government documents, and legal history are also available to help you.

You can contact us for legal research help several ways:

• stop by the reference desk (see our hours)
• call us at 512-471-6220
• use online chat; or,
• email us.

For an in-depth consultation on special projects like law review note writing or seminar papers, feel free to contact Kasia Solon, Student Services Coordinator, to schedule an appointment with one of our librarians.

Do you wonder why the law school is on Dean Keeton Street? For answers to this and other questions, you can count on Tarlton's Rare Books & Special Collections staff. They have developed many online exhibits and hold many materials relating to the history and traditions of the law school. Collections vary from the history of the Texas Law Review to an assemblage of UT Law School t-shirts.

Some of the online exhibits of particular interest to law school students include:

• Charles Alan Wright's Legal Eagles: a history of the law school's intramural football team that was led by one of the nation’s leading authorities on federal courts and constitutional law;
• Dr. Samuel Peterson: memories from a professor who taught at UT Law School a hundred years ago give a sense of what your experience in law school would have been like 100 years ago;
• Peregrinus, the law school's mascot and the history behind it;
• UT School of Law Buildings Photographs: spans the different buildings that have housed the law school since the 1880s.
• UT School of Law Early Deans 1902-1974: an overview of seven deans who had an impact on the development of the law school.

Dean Page Keeton

Rare Books & Special Collections is housed on the library's 4th floor and contains a treasure trove of materials relating to the law school's history. Feel free to stop by to learn more through an in-person visit.

Hello and welcome to the Tarlton Law Library! As the student services coordinator, I am here to make sure that the Library is meeting your legal research needs. All of us at the Library are working to help you succeed in your academic pursuits in law school, as well as prepare you to practice after graduation.

Whenever you have any questions, suggestions, or feedback on what the Library can do for you, please let me know.

Kasia Solon