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Iantha Haight

20 January 2021

How To Do a Preemption Check

What’s a preemption check? A preemption check is a careful background check of your topic to see if anyone else has used your thesis or argument in a paper before. You don’t want …

by Iantha Haight


  Electronic Resources
11 January 2021

Fastcase and Casemaker Merge; ROSS Intelligence Closes Its Doors

Big changes in the legal research industry are underway. Last week two of the largest legal research alternatives to Lexis and Westlaw, Fastcase and Casemaker, announced their merger. This news comes on the …

by Iantha Haight


  Electronic Resources
04 January 2021

The 125th Anniversary of Utah Statehood

January 4th, 2021 marks the 125th anniversary of Utah being admitted as a state to the United States of America. Utah took a complicated journey en route to statehood. Check out ProQuest Congressional …

by Iantha Haight


  General News
  Utah
10 December 2020

Press Coverage of Prof. Nielson @ SCOTUS

If you were too busy with finals yesterday to catch Professor Aaron Nielson's performance at SCOTUS oral arguments, don't fret. You can still listen to the recording on supremecourt.gov or CSPAN, or read the …

by Iantha Haight


  Law School News
  Supreme Court
02 December 2020

Hear Professor Nielson Argue at SCOTUS Next Week

Last August Justice Alito appointed BYU Law Professor Aaron Nielson, a former Alito clerk and of counsel at Kirkland & Ellis, an amicus curiae in Collins v. Mnuchin to argue that the structure …

by Iantha Haight


  Law School News
  Supreme Court
18 November 2020

Enter the International Law & Technology Writing Competition

Update: The deadline has been extended to December 7th, 2020. Submit your entry to the 2021 International Law & Technology Writing Competition for current law students by December 7, 2020. There is not …

by Iantha Haight


  General News
12 November 2020

Exam Prep: How to Write Law School Essay Exams

You are probably a pretty good writer already, but writing law school essay exams is a distinct skill. A well-written exam essay will be organized and easy to grade. Law professors read lots …

by Iantha Haight


  Electronic Resources
  finals | exams | writing
02 November 2020

New HeinOnline Content: Electoral College

HeinOnline has added a subsection to its U.S. Presidential Library devoted to the electoral college, how it works, and efforts to reform or abolish it. Click "U.S. Presidential Library" from the HeinOnline home …

by Iantha Haight


  Buried Treasures, Electronic Resources
  HeinOnline | election
19 October 2020

Cybersecurity Threat: Silent Librarian

Generally speaking, librarians are awesome, service-oriented professionals committed to providing library patrons with the resources they need. Silent Librarian, however, is not awesome. Silent Librarian is a phishing campaign that targets students and …

by Iantha Haight


  General News
  cybersecurity
13 October 2020

Judge Griffith Pens Essay on Religion and Judicial Decision-making for U.S. Law Week

Recently retired D.C. Circuit judge, BYU alum and former BYU General Counsel Thomas B. Griffith published a piece yesterday in United States Law Week on the role religion should play in the work …

by Iantha Haight


  Electronic Resources, General News, U.S. Supreme Court
15 September 2020

It’s Newspaper Time! Student Access to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post

Fall (and a lot of smoke) is in the air, meaning it's newspaper time at BYU Law! As a BYU Law student, you have digital access to several major newspapers. I encourage you …

by Iantha Haight


  Electronic Resources
24 August 2020

New Collaborative Learning Space Coming Soon to the Library!

Not only were we busy in the library this summer trying to come up with a sensible, practical plan for this strange school year, we were busy with a new construction project on …

by Iantha Haight


  Law Library News, Law School News
  construction | collaborative learning space
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