The law library is here to serve you year-round! Please reach out to us at asklawlib@fiu.edu if you have questions about research, books, or anything you think a law library might be able to help with. If you are working at an internship this summer and want to continue to use your own Lexis or Westlaw account, you’re in luck! Here is the summer access policy for Lexis and Westlaw:
Lexis+ :
- All graduates receive 6 months of Lexis post graduation. For spring graduates, this will end on December 31, 2024.
- Lexis’s ASPIRE program is dedicated to graduates engaged in non-profit work. It provides 12 months of free access to federal and state cases, regulations, law reviews, Shepard’s, and Matthew Bender treatises to graduates who are engaged in verifiable 501(c)(3) public interest work.
- For more info and to sign up, click here.
Westlaw:
Returning FIU Law Students can use Thomson Reuters products, including Westlaw, Practical Law, and Practice Ready Solutions over the summer for non-commercial research. You can turn to these resources to gain understanding and build confidence in your research skills, but you cannot use them in situations where you are billing a client. Examples of permissible uses for your academic password include the following:
- Summer coursework or any educational research
- Research assistant assignments
- Law Review or Journal research
- Moot Court research
- Non-Profit work
- Clinical work
- Internship/Externship sponsored by the school