Accessing Oxford Scholarship Online
Some BYU Law students and faculty are struggling to access sources on Oxford Scholarship Online. While we are working on our IT end to fix…
New Research Guide for Faculty Research Assistants
Are you going to be a research assistant for a faculty member this summer? Or, are you a faculty member that just hired a new research…
Summer and Graduate Access to WL/Lexis/BL and More
Here's the rundown on access to the major legal research databases for students over the summer, and for our 2020 graduates. Summer Access…
Now Available For This Semester: Online Casebooks and LexisNexis Study Aids
Two legal publishers, LexisNexis and Wolters Kluwer, are making electronic versions of law school casebooks and study aids available for…
A Rundown on Legal Radar
You may have seen emails lately advertising the news-feed service Legal Radar. Legal Radar is being described as a “progressive web app”…
Blast to the Past: Research in Older Versions of the U.S. Code
Recently for a project I needed statutes governing the now-defunct Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and the Interstate Commerce…
Law Journal Rankings
With submission season upon us, both law faculty and law students can submit to law reviews and journals. With so many options, how do you…
New Version of the LexisNexis Digital Library Now Available
LexisNexis and Overdrive have released a major update of the LexisNexis Digital Library. Here are a few things you should know. When you…
Bar Application Resources
'Tis the season for Bar applications. Did you know that the BYU Law Library has a few resources to help you out? There are several notaries…
UniCourt, a Docket & Legal Analytics Tool, Now Available at BYU Law
One of our goals at the law library is to prepare students for Life After Law School by providing access to a wide variety of technologies,…
Stata
Is data science a necessary part of research or a project you are doing? The library now has Stata, which is a software for statistics and…
New Features for Wolters Kluwer Study Aids Online Including Video, Audio
It’s already been a busy week here at the law school, but industrious students who have logged into the Wolters Kluwer Online Study Aid…
ROSS Intelligence Announces Law School Access Program and Corporate Partnerships
ROSS Intelligence has been busy lately! ROSS Intelligence, a legal research platform that uses AI in its search results, made two big…
American Law Reports
Stuck on a topic and none of your Westlaw or Lexis searches seem to be helping? Want a lot of in-depth information about a topic…
Database for Native American Heritage Month: ProQuest Indian Claims Insight
Native American Heritage Month is winding down, but there’s still time to take a look at a database related to Native American history in…
Announcing LexisNexis Digital Library at BYU on National Read an Ebook Day
We’ve all been counting the days until National Read an Ebook Day today! Well, maybe not. I admit I still prefer a paper book for curling…
Time for the New York Times
Fall is in the air here in Utah, which means it's time for new BYU Law students to set up their accounts to the online New York Times! You…
Summer/Graduate Research Access: Lexis, Westlaw, Bloomberg & Casetext
When you aren’t thinking about finals, you are probably asking yourself: can I use my research accounts this summer? The answer is: Lexis,…
Casetext with CARA AI: Keyword-free Legal Research
Search for caselaw without using keywords? That’s the goal of CARA AI from Casetext. Casetext, a legal research alternative to Westlaw and…
How To Be a Legal Hacker
The Global Legal Hackathon is coming up this weekend, and BYU Law is getting involved again. The Hackathon's purpose is simple: make it…
The Story Behind MLK’s Name, The Washington Post, and the Value of Newspapers
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day next week, The Washington Post has published a fascinating article entitled The Story of How…
Finals Help
We do our best to help our students out during finals time. Here are some resources and services we hope will make this time a little less…
Quimbee Study Aids Are Here!
Just in time to help you prepare for finals, BYU Law now has Quimbee’s online study aids! Sign up for your own personalized account here.…
Like Environmental Law? Try Greenwire
E&E’s Greenwire, a news service focused on environmental and natural resources law, covers important topics that often do not make the…