Law librarians and library staff are available to help you find your way around the library and its legal materials, provide research support, and assist you in locating materials that are not in our library. You can find the latest information about our hours and services on the library homepage. There are several ways to contact us:
Email us
In Person: The Borrowing Services Desk and Reference Office are on the main floor of the law library. Online and in-person appointments with the reference staff can be made from the library homepage.
Call us:
Borrowing Services Desk: (650) 723-2477
Reference Desk: (650) 725-0800
Articles, cases, and other content are frequently available through electronic databases. Law students have access to various electronic databases subscribed to by Stanford University Libraries as well as to law-specific databases subscribed to by the Robert Crown Law Library.
As you research and draft your Note or Comment, you need to stay up-to-date on the status of the legal issue(s) or case(s) discussed in your scholarship. You can set alerts for specific searches on Westlaw and Lexis to make this task easier for you.
Lexis Alert: To create a Lexis alert, select the "Create an Alert" symbol at the top of the screen after you have entered the search you want in the database you would like the search to run.
Westlaw Alert: To create a WestClip alert (that's what Westlaw calls its alerts service), first run your search, then click on the Create Alert menu icon to the upper right of the search results:
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