Fall and spring semester hours
During the fall and spring semesters, the reference desk is typically available for walk-up, email, phone, or chat questions during these hours:
Hours vary during finals, intersession, and summer sessions.
LRC law librarians are available to serve as guest lecturers on a variety of research-related topics. Presentations will be tailored to your course. Commonly-requested topics include:
Please contact us to request research training for your students. Recent LRC presentations in law school seminars are available on the LRC website.
Past exams are available. Please send any exam questions that you would like to make available to your students to Circulation at lrccirc@sandiego.edu.
Course-related materials can be placed on print reserve at the Legal Research Center to be accessible for your students. To do so, contact the Reference Team. You can provide citations for your textbooks, provide us with copies of material, or simply copy and paste a link from the library catalog.
Upon request, reference librarians can provide Faculty Executive Assistants with administrator access to faculty TWEN pages on Westlaw. Contact us for assistance.
Administrator's Guide to Using TWEN (2013 is the current version)
User Guides and Video Tutorials - instructions on managing quizzes, assignments, grades and more in TWEN
TWEN Technical Assistance: 1-800-850-9378
Upon request, the Pardee Legal Research Center offers training for students on academic integrity.
The LRC can also assist in locating potential sources of plagiarized text in student papers though we cannot assist in determining whether generative AI tools were used.
Note: The text-matching software Turnitin compares submitted drafts to its database of scholarly research (journal articles, student papers, and other internet sources) and returns a Similarity Report that highlights a percentage of matching text.
Turnitin does not automatically detect plagiarism. It is up to the student or professor to interpret the meaning of the Similarity Report.