07 February 2012
American Indian Law Resources
With one of its professors, Larry EchoHawk, serving in the Obama administration as Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, BYU Law School has a unique connection to American Indian Law. To support research and …
14 November 2011
Pentagon Papers
Recently my wife and I watched "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers." It was an interesting documentary about Ellsberg and his path from a Pentagon insider to …
02 November 2011
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
Students and faculty at BYU Law have a number of international connections. Because of that, interest in foreign law is quite high. One resource you'll want to know about if you need secondary …
20 July 2011
History of International Law
HeinOnline is one of our favorite resources here in the law library. Most law students know it as the place to get pdf versions of law reviews and journals, but it's much more than …
04 May 2011
50 State Surveys
One of the most daunting and painful research projects asked of research assistants is the 50 state survey. In short, this requires you to find the law on a particular topic in all …
28 April 2011
08 December 2010
Hein’s New Look and IP
If you've been to HeinOnline this week, which I imagine you haven't since you've been studying for finals, you've probably noticed that it looks a bit different. Hein has swapped it's blue background …
08 November 2010
Utah Session Laws
HeinOnline has recently completed their run of Utah Session Laws, taking them back to 1851. This is a tremendous asset to Utah legal researchers, as HeinOnline's Utah session laws previously only went back …
29 June 2010
History of Bankruptcy
The Law Library has recently purchased access to one of HeinOnline's newest libraries, History of Bankruptcy. This library boasts "more than 135,000 pages of legislative histories, treatises, documents, classics, and more related to …
07 June 2010
HeinOnline Search Enhancements
A number of times on this blog I have made two points about HeinOnline. First, it's an outstanding resource and law students must be familiar with it. And second, law students don't use …
02 June 2010
Taxation & Economic Reform
The Law Library has recently subscribed to an additional library in HeinOnline, Taxation and Economic Reform in America, 1789-2009. This new library offers a variety of materials, most notably over 1 million pages …
27 April 2010
World Constitutions Illustrated
While most of us use HeinOnline for its law journal collection, it has many other resources that are worth becoming familiar with. Hein has recently announced a new collection, World Constitutions Illustrated: Contemporary …
04 March 2010
HeinOnline Faceted Searching
We've talked here in the past about searching HeinOnline (see here and here). It takes some getting used to if you're coming from Google, Westlaw or Lexis, but can be very valuable to …
19 February 2010
LegalTrac
Have you ever been frustrated by too much information when searching legal journals on Westlaw and Lexis? Full-text searching is wonderful, but at times it can be a bit overwhelming. Especially when you …
10 February 2010
HeinOnline Proximity Searching
HeinOnline recently made its proximity searching much more user friendly. Now when users run a search in the Field Search screen they can select if they want their terms to be "within 5," …
30 November 2009
Bar Journals
The Law Library's HeinOnline subscription now contains a collection of 55 Bar Journals that may be useful to you in your research. Like other HeinOnline content, the Bar Journal content contains scanned .pdf …
21 October 2009
Searching HeinOnline
HeinOnline is one of our favorite resources here in the Law Library. It offers PDF versions of many great legal resources. While many students and faculty are familiar with HeinOnline and its content, …
03 February 2009
UN Docs on HeinOnline
The Law Library has recently acquired access to a number of United Nations documents through HeinOnline. Some of the highlights include the complete United Nations Treaty Series, Monthly Statement of Treaties and International …
