The Tarlton Law Library is open at this time with access limited to current UT Law students, faculty, and staff. Members of the UT Austin community unaffiliated with the law school may contact the Circulation Desk (circ@law.utexas.edu, 512-471-7726) for assistance with accessing library resources. Online reference services are also available. Please see the Tarlton Reopening FAQs and the Texas Law Fall 2020 Reopening Plan for additional details
The Tarlton Law Library provides library services to all adjunct faculty. Matt Steinke, Associate Director for Public Services, serves as the library liaison for adjunct faculty members.
Matt Steinke
msteinke@law.utexas.edu
512-471-6232
The Library subscribes to the University of Washington's Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP), which delivers weekly e-mail notices containing topical access to the table of contents pages from over 570 legal publications. Faculty can also set up a SmartCILP profile and receive a weekly e-mail that focuses only on the subject headings and journals they select. To receive CILP notices or set up a SmartCILP profile, please contact Matt Steinke (471-6232, msteinke@law.utexas.edu).
The Library subscribes to the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN), a division of the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN) that publishes a wide range of law-related working papers and article drafts accepted for publication. Faculty members may subscribe to any of the LSN journals. Access to the SSRN Economic Research Network and Financial Economics Network may also be available. Contact Matt Steinke (msteinke@law.utexas.edu, 471-6232).
The Library provides regular email updates during Supreme Court terms to UT law faculty. These updates include concise summaries of recently issued Supreme Court decisions and certs granted, with links to the official slip opinions on the Supreme Court website. UT law faculty interested in subscribing to the email notifications should contact Matt Steinke (msteinke@law.utexas.edu, (512) 471-6232).
You can use Lexis, Westlaw, and other electronic resources to create automatic notification systems that will inform you by email of new primary or secondary source materials that relate to particular subjects or that are published by particular sources. Contact your library liaison for more information.