Teaching & Classroom Support

Legal Research Lectures

Reference librarians are available, with advance notice, to provide guest lectures on legal research across most subject areas.

To request a lecture, please contact Ask a Librarian.

Canvas Basics for Faculty

For information about using Canvas, please click here.

Course Reserves

To place material on reserve at the library circulation desk, contact Winston Tubb, Collection Services Manager.  Please allow at least 24 hours for processing.

Complimentary Textbook Copies

Complimentary desk copies may be available from:

Carolina Press
Lexis
West Academic
Aspen Publishing

CALI

CALI offers more than 900 interactive lessons covering 33 areas of law.

  • Student password: SOUMETstu194
  • Faculty password: SOUMETfac194.  

The faculty password provides broader access to CALI materials.

Plagiarism Detection

SMU professors have access to Copyleaks, which identifies potential plagiarism by comparing student submissions against billions of web pages, scholarly articles, and academic papers.

For more information, please click here.