Research Classes for Legal Practice in First-Year Curriculum

Legal research instruction covers topics including statutes, cases, secondary sources, and research strategy. Please direct questions to library instructional staff(This link opens in a new tab) or 202-662-9140.

Research Lectures for Classes & Clinics

Reference librarians are available to provide presentations to classes and clinics on a variety of specialized research techniques. These research lectures will provide more advanced legal research instruction in consultation with the requesting faculty member and will build upon the basic research strategies and tools covered in the first-year curriculum. Reference librarians present on subject-specific research areas (e.g., tax law, health law, environmental law, and music law), as well as specialized legal research instruction (e.g., legislative history and administrative law research), tips and tools for using electronic research databases, research in non-legal sources, and other advanced research techniques.

Faculty members interested in having a reference librarian visit their class should contact the library teaching staff(This link opens in a new tab) or 202-662-9140 for U.S. law or non-legal topics and the foreign and international librarians(This link opens in a new tab) or 202-662-4195 for international and foreign law topics. We request at least 2 weeks’ notice for guest research lecture requests.

Library Training for All Students

The library offers additional training open to all students throughout the academic year.

Workshops include Research Strategies for Seminar Papers, which covers tips and resources to help students select a topic, conduct a preemption check, and find books and articles for their research. This is offered during the fall and spring semesters.

Additionally, the library offers a Prepare to Practice Series for students to improve their legal research skills. Sessions cover basic, advanced, specialized, and practice-oriented topics.

Please direct questions to the library teaching staff(This link opens in a new tab) or 202-662-9140.

Vendor Training for All Students

Lexis, Westlaw, and Bloomberg Law offer training and webinars on how to use their products to do legal research.

• Lexis Training Calendar
• Westlaw Training Calendar
• Bloomberg Law Training & Events

Library Training for Faculty Research Assistants

The Law Library will host an hour-long training session for faculty research assistants (RAs) this summer. This introduction to library services, resources and databases also covers best practices for planning, discovering and logging your research.

The session will be held in-person and virtually via Zoom on Tuesday, June 2 from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm in the Law Library’s Computer Learning Center (located in the Oakley Reading Room) and will also be recorded, with the recording made available to all registrants.

Pre-registration is required by Friday, May 29. Accommodation requests related to a disability should be sent to Yolonda Harrison, Head of Research Services, at yh1000@georgetown.edu(This link opens in a new tab) by Tuesday, May 26.