The Law School

All classrooms, student organizations, faculty and administrative offices, the student lounge, the Law Library and the McGlothlin Moot Courtroom are housed in the Law School building. Students have twenty-four hour access to the library and its two computer labs. The Law School provides wireless Internet access throughout most areas of the building. On-campus graduate housing and the McCormack-Nagleson Tennis Center are located next door to the Law School campus.

For more information on the law school and the College of William and Mary, visit http://www.wm.edu/law/about/environment.shtml

The Law Library

The nation's first law school opened one of the nation's newest libraries in the summer of 2007 when the 56,000 square foot Wolf Law Library was completed. The Library's interior design and careful use of space offer an elegant and comfortable state-of-the-art center for research, instruction, individual and group study, and social interaction. Windows on all sides -- including floor-to-ceiling windows in the library's two Reading Rooms -- ensure a bright, light-filled space. Light also is brought into the center of the Library by a skylight atop the three-story Grand Staircase. In addition to having 568 seats, the Library has two computer labs, twelve group study rooms, and 342 lockers for student use.

Scholarly resources from around the world are available to researchers thanks to our 400,000 book volumes, extensive electronic resources, interlibrary cooperation, and facility-wide Internet access. The library's comprehensive treatise collection is particularly noted for its strength in constitutional and environmental law, taxation, jurisprudence, legal history, public and private international law, and Roman Law. Our special collections, some of which are showcased in the Rare Book Room, include American and European legal works dating back to the 16th Century.

For more information on the library, visit http://www.wm.edu/law/lawlibrary/about/about_overview.shtml

Technology Resources

For information on the technology resources available at the law school and around campus, visit http://www.wm.edu/law/technology/.

Courtroom 21

Unveiled on September 13, 1993, the Courtroom 21 Project is an ongoing international demonstration and experimental effort which seeks to determine how technology can best improve all components of the legal system. It includes, in the College of William & Mary Law School's McGlothlin Courtroom, the world's most technologically advanced trial and appellate courtroom. A joint project of the Law School and the National Center for State Courts, the Courtroom 21 Project, "The Courtroom of the 21st Century Today," is a 1997 recipient of a Foundation for Improvement of Justice Award for its efforts to improve the administration of justice through technology. The Project includes two full-size traveling, high technology Courtroom 21 Portable Courtrooms, which are in great demand for professional conferences. The project is the world center for courtroom and related technology information and experimentation.

For more information on the Courtroom 21 Project, visit http://www.courtroom21.net/

Housing

The College offers graduate students apartment-style housing on campus in a residence complex right next to the Law School. Many off-campus housing options are available, but the distance from the law school may require students to have their own transportation.

For detailed information on housing options, visit http://www.wm.edu/law/prospective/livingcampus.shtml