Law Library

The Law Library is centrally situated on the ground floor of the main building of the Faculty of Law. The library collection comprises an extensive collection of South African legal publications, as well as Anglo-American, Canadian and other foreign legal publications and journals, covering all aspects of international and comparative law.

Students browsing in the Law Library

A modern thirty-station computer laboratory provides access to major electronic publications and on-line access to the Internet and E-mail, as well as the library’s electronic catalogue and word processing programs.

Laser printing and photocopier facilities are available in the library.

Library Cubicles

The Library is equipped with numerous study cubicles, where students are encouraged to spend as much time as necessary. The PPS Wing, was added in 1999, with the specific goal to provide an attractive, comfortable, quiet study area including 3 large group study rooms.

The Library offers courses and workshops to develop and improve legal research skills to enable each student to become an effective and efficient legal researcher.

Rhodes University staff and students require their University ID cards to register at the library and Grahamstown residents need a valid Identity Document to register as users.

Law Library and PPS Wing  (view from back)