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University of San Diego
The University of San Diego is located on a spectacular 182-acre campus that features magnificent Spanish Renaissance architecture and beautiful grounds. USD sits high on a hill overlooking Mission Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The university's central location offers easy access to the business, cultural and recreational centers of San Diego.
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School of Law
The School of Law includes three buildings on the main campus –Warren Hall, the Pardee Legal Research Center and Guadalupe Hall – as well as the legal clinics facility, which is located right next to campus.
Warren Hall
Warren Hall, the law school's major classroom facility, houses the Grace Courtroom, faculty and administrative offices, student organization offices, and student and faculty lounges.
Katherine M. and George M. Pardee Jr. Legal Research Center
The Legal Research Center houses the law library, two classrooms, the computer lab and faculty offices (on the third floor). The lower level is where the Center for Public Interest Law, the Children's Advocacy Institute and Energy Policy Initiatives Center are located. The law library, with more than 520,000 volumes and volume equivalents, offers a full range of services under the administration of Director Nancy Carter and Associate Director Ruth Levor.
The nearly 54,000 square-foot building has generous seating at individually lighted carrels, study tables and upholstered easy chairs to accommodate various study needs and styles. Students may also reserve group study rooms.
The collection includes comprehensive coverage of primary state and federal judicial, statutory, and administrative materials and an assortment of secondary materials and foreign and international materials. The library has concentrations in tax, European Union, human rights, Mexican and juvenile law, and it has a collection of microforms, accessible by six reader/printers, including four digital machines, one of which may be used for downloading microform text. The Reserve Room has multiple copies of hornbooks, nutshells, and other study aids. Exams from past years, some with sample answers, are kept at the Circulation Desk and on the library's web page. The library is a federal and state government depository. The depository materials are integrated into, and cataloged with, the rest of the collection.
The law collection is cataloged on an automated system that includes the holdings of the main campus library. Items not available in the campus collection may be ordered by patron-initiated interlibrary loan from other area universities and will be delivered to the LRC within 24 to 36 hours. Librarians can order other materials through a national network.
Students have access to online research materials in the computer lab, on computers in the reference area, on the library web page, at Internet wired carrels and by wireless Internet access. They may investigate Internet sites, look up periodical articles on LegalTrac, find United Nations materials via Readex, study for class and the bar on CALI and the Interactive Courtroom, and research on Lexis and Westlaw. Other available programs include LawDesk, Matthew Bender Authority, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, and e-mail. There are laser printers and a scanner for reproducing online materials.
Photocopiers are located throughout the library. All library photocopiers, printers and microform reader/printers can be operated with an encoded student ID card. Students can also obtain photocopies and prints by using a debit card available at library vending machines or at the university's Print Shop.
Library Hours
Contact Information
For further information about the LRC and a virtual tour, visit our website at www.sandiego.edu/lrc/virtualtour/.
Guadalupe Hall
Guadalupe Hall houses the law school's Office of Development and Alumni Relations; Law School Publications, which includes the San Diego Law Review and San Diego International Law Journal's offices; the Mock Trial Team office; several faculty offices and seminar/conference rooms; and the Department of Special Projects.
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