For some basic legal information needed for the College's curriculum, the SMC library subscribes to HeinOnline. This source includes law reviews, Congressional documents, Federal Register, and much more. If you know of a specific case, Google Scholar does a decent job of calling up case law by citation and searching by keyword limited to specific courts.
If you need more than this, the Alameda County Law Library allows all members of the public to use the law library. The law library’s focus is on providing current, practice-oriented California and some federal legal information such as codes, cases, citators, treatises, law reviews, self-help materials, practice guides, and manuals.
Visitors can access many of the library’s databases (even during the pandemic by asking for temporary passwords) including LEXIS Advanced, NOLO (EBSCO Legal Information Reference Center), and WestlawNext using public workstations within the Main Library in Oakland or South Branch in Hayward.
Main Library - Oakland
125 12th Street
Oakland CA. 94607
South Branch - Hayward
224 W. Winton Avenue, Room 162
Hayward, CA 94544
For more information about the Alameda County Library, please visit their website.
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