The Tarlton Law Library of the Joseph J. Jamail Center for Legal Research is the seventh-largest academic law library in the United States and the finest legal research center in the Southwest. It houses working collections from many other countries, with special strength in primary legal materials from Latin America and Western European nations, as well as a full depository for European Union documents and United Nations publications. The library receives more than 8,600 periodicals, including at least one copy of every American law review. A suite of rooms in the Law Library is allocated to rare books, manuscripts, law school archives, and special collections of materials ranging from a fifteenth-century Roman law codex to papers of former U.S Supreme Court justice Tom C. Clark. The library also has multiple sets of the most frequently used reporters, statutes, and treatises to meet the demands of a large faculty and student body. And, according to recent Research Libraries Group (RLG) statistics, the UT Law library is the largest net lender of all member law libraries, a membership that includes institutions such as Harvard and Yale.
Law students may use the center's personal computers or use Ethernet and wireless connections. In addition, the library offers law students access to LEXIS-NEXIS and WESTLAW and a variety of other electronic databases and information services. Special facilities and equipment, includng Dragon Dictate voice-recognition software, are provided for use by law students with special needs.
