UCLA Law Library

The UCLA Law Library, or the Hugh & Hazel Darling Law Library, is the library facility of the UCLA School of Law. The current library was completed in 2000 following investment by UCLA Law alumna and former dean Susan Westerberg Prager ‘71 and is a vital resource for law students, faculty and practitioners in California. To visit the UCLA Law Library’s website, click the link below.

UCLA Law Library hours may vary across days of the weeks and weeks of the term. For a calendar of the library’s opening hours, click the link below.

The UCLA Law Library offers many services, including the Interlibrary Loan service, which enables UC students, faculty and staff to borrow materials that are not available at UCLA libraries from other libraries, document delivery services for a fee to the general public, a reference room and more. For more information about services offered at the library, click the link below.

The UCLA Law Library observes a restricted access policy. Non law-school students of the UC, including UCLA, as well as UCLA faculty and staff, UC law school alumni and members of the Bar in good standing, are able to access the library but are required to make reservations and present identification upon entry. For more information about the library’s access policies, click the link below.

The Law Library contained only 21,000 volumes upon its first opening in 1949, but has since grown to hold over 600,000 bound volumes in its six floors. To do an online tour of the library, click the link below.