This past summer, the Law Library began offering a notary public service for members of the Catholic Law School community. The notary public can assist with the notarization of signatures on select documents. A non-expired government ID such as a driver’s license, passport, or military card is required at the time of the appointment.
To make an appointment with the Library's notary public please use this scheduling service.
In response to last semester's Student Survey, the Law Library staff spent time this past summer redesigning our website. The new look to the site attempts to increase the visibility of the most requested resources and services. Please let us know if you encounter any issues with the new look or have suggestions for how we can improve it.
If you would like to see how the Law Library's website has changed since it's first iteration in 1997, we have captured it's evolution in this library guide.
In response to last semester's Student Survey, the Law Library has now made available a number of new student spaces. This includes three new drop-in study rooms (Rooms 323, 324 and 427) which are intended for short study periods. These rooms are located across from the restrooms on the 3rd and 4th floors respectively and can not be reserved.
The Law Library has also added a student “Zoom Room” (Room 227). The “Zoom Room,” located in the hallway on the second floor, must be reserved and is intended for students who need to conduct a virtual interview or videoconference. The room comes equipped with a desktop computer, speakers, and a camera, however students may use their own devices.
The University's new printing program, Cardinal Printing, provides a number of options for printing. To get started:
The Law Library's Cardinal Printing machines are named:
Questions? Email CSL-tech@cua.edu.
As part of the Law Library's welcome for all our new law students (J.D., M.L.S, LL.M) we have published a Survival Guide to help you navigate your first days and weeks at Catholic Law. This guide contains essential library information to assist you in getting off to a good start in your legal education; from how to print from your laptop, to which study guides are available electronically.
In order to improve access, we are working on the links to our databases. Effective June 17th you may experience issues with database links. If so, please contact csl-ref@cua.edu.
We are currently in the process of migrating to OpenAthens in place of EZproxy to manage off campus access to e-resources (e-books, e-journals, databases). During this switch, on campus users should not notice any differences. Off campus users may encounter a temporary access issue with some of the online resources.
Students wondering whether they will have access to the major legal research databases as well as other databases during the summer or post-graduation can find out more information in our Guide to Summer & Post Graduation Access.
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The Law Library will be open extended hours during the exam period.
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The US News & World Report Law School rankings began publication in 1987, although for the first few years only the top 20-25 law schools were included. Beginning in 1993, and running through 2002, Catholic Law was not assigned a numerical ranking and instead was assigned to a quartile or tier. Starting in 2003, the top 100 law schools were ranked, and more recently the top 176 schools have been ranked. The dates below refer to the publication year of the ranking not the edition.
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1987 - NR |
2006 - T3 |
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1988 - NR |
2007 - 98 |
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1989 - NR |
2008 - 91 |
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1990 - NR |
2009 - 94 |
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1991 - NR |
2010 - 98 |
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1992 - NR |
2011 - 79 |
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1993 - Q2 |
2012 - 82 |
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1994 - T3 |
2013 - 80 |
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1995 - T4 |
2014 - 107 |
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1996 - T3 |
2015 - 108 |
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1997 - T2 |
2016 - 103 |
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1998 - T2 |
2017 - 106 |
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1999 - T2 |
2018 - 110 |
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2000 - T2 |
2019 - 108 |
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2001 - T2 |
2020 - 111 |
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2002 - T3 |
2021 - 102 |
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2003 - 84 |
2022 - 94 |
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2004 - 82 |
2023 - 122 |
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2005 - 85 |
2024 - 94 |
You may have recently received an email from the New York Times about your complimentary digital subscription.
Did you know that access to nytimes.com is available to all CUA law faculty and students? Students must use their cua.edu email address to login. Faculty must use their law.edu email address to login. To start using, click "login" and then “forgot your password” on nytimes.com. Contact csl-ref@cua.edu with questions.