The William Taylor Muse Law Library has more than 430,000 volumes and serves not only as a library for law students and law faculty, but also for University of Richmond faculty and students, members of the local legal community, and the general public. The collection includes an extensive collection of legal periodicals and law reviews, treatises, loose-leaf services, finding aids, and reference works. The library maintains collections of United States Supreme Court records and briefs, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals records and briefs on microfiche, and Virginia Supreme Court records and briefs in print and in digital format.
The library provides a substantial collection of electronic resources, including Lexis Advance, Westlaw Next, Bloomberg Law, Fastcase, HeinOnline, Jurist and JustCite, Cheetah, Law360, and numerous other electronic resources. Electronic resources are available to students and faculty in the law school and at home via a VPN connection.
The Muse Law Library has been a selective federal depository library since 1982. Public access to the government documents collection is accessible to all users, including the general public. In addition to these government publications, researchers will find legislative history materials, including full-text transcripts of Congressional hearings available in the microfiche collection.
Although the library is open to the public most hours, it does restrict access during the fall and spring semester study and examination periods.
