The Rutgers Law School Library is the most comprehensive public law library in New Jersey, and provides the students and faculty of the Law School with access to major full-text legal databases. Those databases include not only the current statutes and regulations and complete case law of the federal government and all the states, but also extensive collections of scholarly commentary, practitioners' treatises, historical legal material, and material on foreign law. Our Resources-by-Subject guide offers an extensive list of available study guides and treatises and our guides and pathfinders detail how to research specific topics.

Students and faculty also have access to the many databases and electronic journals in other disciplines provided by the Rutgers University Libraries.

The Library also maintains extensive digital, print, and microform collections, including primary sources and finding tools for federal law and the law of selected states, many major law journals, and many legal and law-related monographs.

Additionally, the Library houses "one of the most comprehensive collections of Soviet legal and related material in the United States. It consists of some 30,000 treatises and over 150 titles of serial literature. The collection encompasses official material, scholarly treatises and journals, as well as popular books, pamphlets, and magazines. Besides legal material, the collection also includes publications in the areas of history, political science, sociology and economics. Although the greater part of the collection deals with the Soviet Union, there is extensive coverage of the other socialist countries as well. A partial list of other countries represented includes Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany and the other East European countries; China, Mongolia, Laos, North Korea, Vietnam, and Cuba. Most of the material is in Russian, but other Slavic, as well as western, and even some eastern, languages are represented." -Lucy Cox (full article available from https://doi.org/10.14713/jrul.v47i1.1647)

The library serves as a depository library for both New Jersey and federal government documents.

"This library is a congressionally designated depository for U.S. Government documents. Public access to the government documents collection is guaranteed by public law. (Title 44 United States Code)"