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UW Law Users ILL: How to place a request for an article or book, or to view your existing requests.
Free for law school students, staff and faculty.*
*the law library will cover up to $20.00 per requested item
Please allow 2-3 weeks for book requests and 1-7 days for article scans.
From your user Portal choose Requests from the top menu, then click Create request.
Select Article, Book or Other depending upon the item you are requesting.
Fill out the form as thoroughly as you can. Thorough and correct citation information means that we will deliver exactly what you need in a timely manner. Feel free to add explanatory information in the Comments field.
Click the SUBMIT REQUEST button.
If you have any questions or are not able to locate the item on your user account please feel free to send an e-mail to a law librarian at lawref@uw.edu
All current UW Law faculty, students and staff
Materials needed for academic purposes that are not available at the Law Library or through the combined catalog.
Either loans, or PDFs of articles.
Visitors to the Law Library, all Non-UW law users can use our scanning services to request digital scans of material within copyright and that are unique to the law library collection.
For all other information and services available to you:
The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specific conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purposes other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," the user may be liable for copyright infringement. This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright law.