The Law School was formaly opened in 1887 and moved along with the Law Library to the new Myron Tayler Hall in 1937. The new building is a stone structure which resembles a castle. An addition to Myron Taylor Hall was completed in 1988.
The Library contains 600,000 books and microforms and includes rare historical texts relevant to the legal history of the United States.
The library contains multiple online legal reference tools including Cornell Law's Legal Information Institute (LII) is the world's leading investigator of new ways to do legal research in electronic formats. Advances in online legal research include an early Microsoft Windows-compatible web browser the Cello web browser. The Web site offers timely legal information in hypertext format including primary materials and links to virtually every legal resource in the world, organized by topic and practice area. It offers distribution of opinions of the Supreme Court and the New York State Court of Appeals (the states highest court). Legal analyses of recent New York State Court of Appeals decisions are compiled and sent to attorneys, judges and others via email.Library