HeinOnline has long been a valuable source of historical legal information. Over the years, Hein has digitized state session laws and state statutes that extend to pre-statehood materials whenever possible. These historical materials can be found in the following locations in HeinOnline: Sessions Law Library …
Casetext made a huge announcement yesterday--the release of "the first AI legal assistant" based on OpenAI's natural language processing model. Click here to view the press release. The tool, named CoCounsel, is based on the same technology as the headline-grabbing ChatGPT. But unlike ChatGPT, CoCounsel …
When locating the original text of Congressional bills, it is important to understand how Congressional bills are numbered. Each bill is assigned a number in sequential order when it is introduced into Congress. The bill is given a prefix to indicate the chamber of Congress …
A 50-State survey is a compilation of state laws on a narrow topic gathered for the purpose of comparison. Scholars use these surveys to analyze and understand the law. Corporations use them to make business decisions such as determining where to expand or shift their …
We are excited to announce the addition of a new database to our collections: Jus Mundi for international arbitration research. Jus Mundi has an extensive collection of cases for investment arbitration, commercial arbitration, international trade, public international law, and law of the sea through its …
If you logged into Westlaw today you probably noticed that it looks a little different. Westlaw rolled out their new Precision platform today for all law students and faculty across the United Sates. Here is a brief rundown on the new features: Westlaw Precision Research …
Want to enter a writing competition but don't have a lot of time? The vLex International Writing competition is a good one to participate in because submissions are short and informal--in blog style and 1,000 words long (or within 10% of 1,000 words). The topics …
Prepare for your Westlaw to look a little different. Legal research system providers are constantly trying to improve their systems. Four years after the release of Westlaw Edge (the Westlaw version we currently use), Thomson Reuters has announced the launch of its next iteration, Westlaw …
Construction is finally wrapping up on the fourth floor and faculty are moving out of library study rooms and back into their offices. We have really enjoyed seeing our wonderful faculty more often in the library and will miss them when the return upstairs, but …
The United States Supreme Court is opening its doors to the public for the first time since March 2020 (for oral arguments only), but in a win for transparency, the Court has announced that it will continue its pandemic policy of live streaming oral arguments …
Water law is a big deal here in the Western United States, and HeinOnline just released a new tool for researching it. Editors at Hein have pulled together primary and secondary sources from HeinOnline's extensive collection of digitized legal documents and tagged them by subject …
A big thank you to all of the students who attended the Welcome Back to the Library Fair last Thursday! We were really excited to share with you about our library services. We had candy, doughnuts, Plinko, and booths with information about all the fun …
The BYU Law Library provides free access to Adobe Acrobat Pro on its computers. Here’s how to access it: Go to one of the public library computers. Anyone can use the “legal research only” computers and the computers attached to scanners. None of them are …
BYU Law Library is holding its first ever Welcome Back to the Library Fair this Thursday from 10:45 am to 1 pm in the fishbowl! Spend a few minutes learning about library resources like digital newspaper subscriptions, the Legal Technology Initiative, research help, ILL, and …
For the first time since pandemic restrictions began in March of 2020, the Law Library has reinstated a Course Reserve of print casebooks and other course materials. The current editions of all casebooks in use at the law school are available at the circulation desk …
What's going on at the Law School and its environs? I will do my best to give you an update, but don't hold me to anything I say--things are constantly changing. Let's start with the Law School. After graduation in April, the university commenced two …
Beginning work at a law firm can cause uncomfortable feelings of culture shock and not belonging, especially if you are like me and haven't had much prior exposure to law firm life before your first summer experience in law school. The Law Library has a …
Did you know BYU Law alumni have access to many law library resources after graduation? In terms of remote access to resources, we provide all alumni with the law journal library in HeinOnline. Use the HeinOnline Alumni Access link under Helpful Links at the bottom …
