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Law Library 101

Your starting point to make good use of the Law Library and its resources for academic success.

Welcome to the Lui Che Woo Law Library!

Explore this guide for the essential tips to maximize your experience and access the library's extensive resources.
 

Essential information on the Library Homepage

Click on the icon icons for more information and helpful tips!

 

You can click on MyAccount@HKUL to manage your library account after logging in with your HKU Portal UID and PIN.

Click to expand the image with functions in MyAccount@HKUL

You can click on Book a Space to reserve discussion rooms, study tables, and other facilities in the Law Library and other HKU libraries with the steps below:

  1. Select the facility you wish to reserve, and log in with your HKU Portal UID and PIN.
  2. You may adjust the location, facility type, and date in the booking form, if necessary.
  3. Choose an available session and confirm your booking. If you provide your email during the confirmation process, you will receive an acknowledgment of your booking.

Steps fo Book a Space

 

Past Examination Papers

You can access selective* past examination papers by searching or browsing through Exambase. Follow these steps to search:

1. Enter the course title, course code, or keywords in the search box.
2. Choose the appropriate search type.
3. Adjust the search filters, if necessary.
4. Click the "Search" button.
5. Click on the titles with red hyperlinks to get the full text of the examination paper.

Steps to search Exambase

* Please note that not all past papers are available, as access depends on the consensus of different course lecturers. Papers with restricted access are highlighted in yellow. Additionally, answers to the questions are not provided.

 

Printing & Photocopying

Black-and-white printer and color printer in the printing room on 1/F There are 4 black-and-white printers and 1 color printer* in the Law Library:

  • 1/F Printing Room: 1 BW & 1 Color printers, along with an Add Value Machine.
  • 2/F (near study tables R59 & 60): 3 BW printers.

These printers operate on a quota-based system called uPrint, which allows you to send print jobs from your laptop or other devices and pick them up from any uPrint printers.  Detailed instructions are provided below:

After completing your printing or photocopying, please remember to log out of your account.

* All jobs sent to color printers are charged as color prints, even if the job is for black-and-white printing.