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Whether you’re about to graduate from HLS or you’re a continuing student looking forward to a summer job, you may be wondering about your online legal research options.  Read on for information about access to your Bloomberg Law, Lexis, and Westlaw accounts, as well as other library databases.  Bloomberg Law  Returning Students’ Summer Use  You

April 16, 2025

At the Harvard Law School Library, we have 39 early manuscript copies of Magna Carta, and now we also have over 300,000 public datasets published by the United States federal government. In February, our Library Innovation Lab launched the Data.gov Archive, a 17-terabyte archive of every dataset published on data.gov by the U.S. federal government. The archive

April 3, 2025

We are very excited to welcome Shay Elbaum as our newest Faculty Research Librarian.  Shay comes to us from the University of Michigan Law Library, where he served as Faculty Research Librarian.  He has also worked in the law libraries at Stanford and Northeastern.       Before becoming a law librarian, Shay worked in Alaska

March 24, 2025