Recognized by the American Institute of Architects and the Library Administration and Management Association as one of the six most architecturally distinguished libraries in the country, the law library houses more than 425,000 volumes and offers wireless access throughout. The Law Library collection ranges from the latest periodicals to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century legal treatises. Our interlibrary loan network makes it possible to obtain materials from any library in the world.

Our primary mission is to plan and provide information services that support the advancement of legal scholarship, education and research by serving the access and instructional needs of the law school community.

In support of Yale Law School's outstanding legal scholarship and lawyer training, Lillian Goldman Law Library is dedicated to acquiring and preserving a superb collection of resources in all formats, furnishing access to information wherever it exists, providing the most highly competent assistance to use information resources and maintaining a welcoming, comfortable facility. Lillian Goldman Law Library provides services which exceed the expectations of users by its leadership in the innovative use of technology and the continuing development of its most highly valued asset, its staff.