Faculty Interest

ProQuest’s Statistical Abstracts of the U.S. is getting a makeover! The cleaner, more intuitive interface will go live June 1st ProQuest has based the upgrade on extensive user testing and feedback. Their goal …

U.S. Intelligence on Europe, 1945-1995 This interesting digital collection contains over 4,000 formerly classified U.S. government documents. These primary source documents provide a comprehensive survey of the U.S. intelligence community’s activities in Europe …

While most legal research classes naturally focus on researching the law of the United States, there is a large body of foreign and international law research that most students aren't exposed to.  Foreign …

BYU Law students and faculty can wave goodbye to the 10 article monthly limit on the New York Times website.  The Law Library has recently entered into an agreement to provide unlimited access …

The Washington & Lee Law Library has recently updated its Law Journal Rankings to include data from 2013.  The rankings take into account citations to journals during the last eight years, with the …

Last week the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum hosted a reenactment of three habeas corpus hearings involving Joseph Smith in the 1840s.  The reenactments were followed by a panel discussion about habeas corpus and …

You may or may not have heard of a MOOC before, but that may not last long.  The National Law Journal reports (registration required) that MOOCS - massive open online courses - are …

Professor Fred Gedicks' latest article, Incorporation of the Establishment Clause Against the States: A Logical, Textual, and Historical Account, was recently published in the Indiana Law Journal.  For more of Professor Gedicks' articles, take …

A number of BYU Law faculty have posted new articles to SSRN in the last few months.  It's been a busy spring, so I haven't gotten around to writing about them yet.  Here's …

Professor Gordon Smith has recently added his newest paper, Law and Entrepreneurial Opportunities, to SSRN.  This article was co-authored with Darian Ibrahim from the University of Wisconsin Law School and will appear in …

Professor Shima Baradaran has recently posted her newest article, Does International Law Matter?, to SSRN.  The article, which is co-authored by Michael Findley, Daniel Nielson, and J.C. Sharman, will be published in the …

The Washington & Lee Law Library has recently updated its Law Journal Rankings to include data from 2012.  The rankings take into account citations to journals during the last eight years, with the …

As some of you may have noticed, the Law Library recently purchased and installed a new KIC Scanner near the 2nd floor reference desk.  This state of the art, face-up scanner has already …

The word "unpublished" can often be misleading in today's legal research environment.  These days documents that are "unpublished" are now often published even though we still call them "unpublished."  Confusing, I know.  Take …

Nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States are always a hot topic - especially in law school.  With President Obama's reelection and the recent inauguration, the topic of potential SCOTUS picks …

Professor Cheryl Preston and co-author Brandon Crowther have posted their latest article, Minor Restrictions: Adolescence Across Legal Disciplines, the Infancy Doctrine, and the Restatement (Third) of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment, on SSRN.  The …

Professor Shima Baradaran's study, Predicting Violence, was recently cited in a Salt Lake Tribune article about Utah's pretrial jail release program.  Predicting Violence was published in the Texas Law Review earlier this year.