For Law Faculty
Access dedicated support for your scholarship and teaching at the Faculty of Law.
Research Services & Library Materials
InfoEXPRESS is our premium research and resource delivery service for faculty members, doctoral candidates, visiting scholars, and staff at U of T Faculty of Law. We obtain books, articles, cases, legislation, and more from our library and others worldwide. We can deliver items directly to your inbox or office. Email your request to InfoEXPRESS.
Your Summer Research Assistant can join our annual research training program from May to August. It includes library orientation, guidance on legal research, and vendor-led database training. Summer RAs are entitled to dedicated library space, enhanced borrowing privileges, research support, and more. Email Sooin Kim about our Summer RA Program.
For short-term research projects, we can connect you with law student research assistants during the academic year. Guided by our Research & Reference Librarian, RAs work directly with you to work out the scope of the research and to communicate the results of their research. and complete your request. On-demand RAs are paid from your research funds. Email your questions and project ideas to Alexia Loumankis.
Our library supports access to eBooks and legal databases for our law school community. We subscribe to Canadian and international databases to support your research and classroom needs. If you wish to trial a new database or add an eBook to your course readings, email InfoEXPRESS.
Instructional Support
Our librarians provide customized legal research instruction throughout the academic year to support:
- Legal Research & Writing Program
- 1L Small Group courses
- Journal Editors
- Programs & Clinics (IHRP, Asper Center, WHRR)
- Upper-year courses
- LLM & SJD candidates
Email John Bolan to learn more and to arrange a session.
All Faculty of Law course readings must follow U of T’s Fair Dealings Guidelines and Canada’s Copyright Act. We can review your course materials for availability and copyright compliance, troubleshoot licensing and permissions issues, and help make the readings available to your students.
We review syllabi on a first-come, first-served basis. Finalized Fall 2025 syllabi are due Friday, August 29, 2025. To submit your syllabus or learn more about Syllabus Service, email Sooin Kim.
We create research guides geared for our law students, highlighting leading texts and key databases by subject. Email John Bolan and/or Alexia Loumankis about creating a new guide.
If your course has core/required reading, we can place it in our Short-Term Loan collection for your students to borrow for up to 3 hours at a time. To request a title for Short-Term Loan, email Anna Szot-Sacawa and include:
- Publication information (author, title, edition, publisher, and year of publication)
- Which semester(s) the materials will be used
Wherever possible, we will purchase the required material (in print or online) if it is not currently in our collection.
We maintain a repository of U of T Faculty of Law’s course examinations from 2011 to present. You can view pre-2011 exams in print at our Circulation Desk. For more information, email Alexandra Kwan.
Current Awareness
Each month, we compile a list of new books at our library. You can view new print books and journal issues in the 4th floor faculty lounge. To borrow or scan these items, please e-mail us or fill out a request form in the faculty lounge.
Our newsletter for Faculty contains information about library news & services, resources, new purchases and more. View current and past issues of InfoEXPRESS Extra.
Our Current Canadian Law Journals and Reviews page directly links you to the most recent issues. Please note: some titles are restricted to U of T Law users.
Most legal research databases offer a customizable “alert” feature, like HeinOnline’s SmartCILP for legal scholars. For a general list of recently published legal articles, check the weekly Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP).
Contact us if you need help setting up alerts for new content and recent developments in your area of law.
Faculty Scholarship
We can help you demonstrate research impact for your grant and funding applications. Increase visibility of your publications with an Author Profile page on HeinOnline. Create an ORCID iD to showcase your research outputs and activities. Email Sooin Kim or Alexia Loumankis about creating, updating, or integrating your author profile or ORCID iD.
We can help deposit your scholarly works into TSpace, U of T’s secure open-access institutional repository. TSpace helps our researchers comply with the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy. Contact Sooin Kim about submitting your publications to the Faculty of Law’s TSpace collection.