Georgetown Law invites you to visit the Law Library, one of the largest legal research facilities in the nation. Law Alumni graduates enjoy lifetime free access to the library.
When visiting the Law Library, Georgetown Law alumni must present government-issued photo identification at the library's security desk. Your name will be checked against our alumni list. For more information on library access and use, please see our Who May Use the Library webpage.
While on campus, graduates can use almost all of the Law Library’s electronic databases. You can locate databases by searching for them in the library catalog by name. Or you can go to our list of Frequently Used Databases or access All Databases.
Please Note: Our licenses for Lexis, Westlaw, and Bloomberg Law limit access to the current Georgetown Law community. For more information on post-graduation use, please visit our Lexis, Westlaw & Bloomberg Law webpage.
As an alternative, graduates on campus may use Fastcase, a powerful full-text legal research tool, and Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic), which offers U.S. federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, international legal information, and Shepard’s Citation Service for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1790.
Only current Georgetown Law students have borrowing privileges from the Law Library. However, recent Georgetown Law graduates studying for the bar may request to use items from our Cool Stuff collection (e.g., chargers) by requesting them from the Circulation Desk.
While on campus, alumni can enjoy access to Georgetown's network GuestNet. GuestNet is an open network and is not encrypted. For more information, see the GuestNet webpage.
Windows and Mac computers that do not require a login are located throughout the Law Library. See the floor maps for locations. Additional workstations are available in the Computer Learning Center, located on the second floor within the main Reading Room. Whenever this room is not being used as a classroom, alumni may use this room for research.
Georgetown Law Library provides self-service scanners that are available free of charge for all Law Library patrons. A KIC scanner and a Xerox scanner are located on the West side of the Reading Room on the 2nd Floor. Scans may be emailed to patrons or directed to a USB drive.
The University PaperCut printing system only works for patrons with an active GOCard (i.e., current faculty, staff, and students). Please use the self-service scanners to send or save materials when needed.
