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The Law Library maintains one copy of the required casebook for all required law school courses. Budget allowing, the Law Library also collects one copy of the required casebook for all elective law school courses.

To search the Law Library's current collection of course reserve books, click . 

If your required casebook is not currently in the Law Library's course reserve, please email law.library@mso.umt.edu, and we will add it to the collection. 

The law library's course reserve collection is located behind the Information Desk. All course reserves are available for a 2-hour checkout period.

The Law Library partners with the Student Bar Association to provide the SBA textbook exchange program. The textbook exchange program operates during the week before the start of each semester. Students borrow used textbooks for free for the semester and return them to the Jameson Library at the end. The exchange operates on a first-come, first-served basis and does not guarantee the availability of any specific title.  The textbooks check out for a full semester and are due after the last law final. Since exchange textbooks may be one or two editions behind those assigned by instructors, students are encouraged to check for any content discrepancies. 

The Law Library has one group study room available in Room 175. The room is reserved on a first-come, first-served basis. The room is reserved for student groups of three or more.

The Law Library maintains a print and digital collection of study aid books and tools to help our students excel in law school. Print study aids can be searched for in the catalog and digital study aids can be accessed on , , and

Through our subscriptions to , , and , the Law Library provides an array of study aid audiobooks on all 1L topics as well as many advanced course topics. To learn more about our audiobook collection, please see our library guide on the topic

The Law Library is here to support your research endeavors. If you have any questions related to legal or non-legal research, you can contact a reference librarian, and they will be happy to help. 

You can ask your questions via email at law.library@mso.umt.edu or in person by stopping by the Information Desk and asking for a librarian. 

For more in-depth research questions, like help creating a research plan for an AWR paper, students can schedule a 30-minute meeting with a reference librarian. To schedule a meeting with a reference librarian, use this

The Law Library can help members of the Montana Law Review and the Public Land & Resources Law Review with research assistance, training on advanced legal research tools, and training sessions for ALWD citations in academic publications. 

The Law Library also assists the law reviews with the physical collection of sources through interlibrary loan. For assistance with interlibrary loan requests for a law review, please email law.library@mso.umt.edu.