Welcome to the Gould Law Library!

The Gould Law Library is named for the Gould family, who have a long history of involvement and support for Touro Law Center. The 40,000 square foot library has four floors with study rooms, carrels, and tables wired for laptop use, as well as abundant soft seating to accommodate approximately 400 users.

The Gould Law Library collection is comprised of more that 462,000 volumes and microform volume equivalents (with 101,000 titles) covering domestic, foreign, and international legal topics. The library subscribes to a broad spectrum of online research databases on legal and general reference topics. The collection is designed to meet the scholarly and educational needs of the law school’s faculty and students.

The library’s extensive microform collection includes Congressional materials, New York state and federal legislative history, selected records and briefs of the United States Supreme Court and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Law Books Recommended for Libraries, archival materials, legal periodicals, and English reports.

The Gould Law Library also serves as a partial depository for United States and New York government documents, providing users with basic legislative and administrative materials.

The library’s Judaica Room contains a research collection in Hebrew and English that provides valuable materials focusing on Jewish law. The Judaica Room collection supports the work of the Jewish Law Institute, courses in Jewish law, and the research needs of religious and legal scholars. The Lillie Goldstein Collection is a traveling Judaica collection that may be borrowed by law schools without similar resources wishing to offer courses in Jewish law.

Our staff of 23 includes five reference librarians and two reference assistants. Seven staff members possess a law degree, and 10 possess a master’s degree in library science.  Our staff is here to assist you on the road to a successful legal career. Please contact us with questions about library services and legal research.

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