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Iantha Haight

31 March 2022

UniCourt Legal Innovation Contest Update: Resubmission Requirement and Deadline Change

UniCourt made two updates to its Legal Innovation Contest. If you are interested in submitting an idea utilizing their APIs, the deadline has been extended from March 31st to April 14th--so you have …

Iantha Haight

by Iantha Haight


  Electronic Resources
30 March 2022

Winning BYU Law Hackathon Team Presents App for Preserving Evidence of War Crimes

Last weekend BYU Law School hosted a chapter of the Global Legal Hackathon, in which participants have 30 hours to come up with an innovative solution to a legal problem. Participating in the …

Iantha Haight

by Iantha Haight


  Law School News
  Legal Technology | competitions
21 March 2022

Enter Your Legal History Paper in the Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition

If you have written a paper related to legal history, or are writing a paper this semester, consider submitting it to the 12th annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition! The Legal History …

Iantha Haight

by Iantha Haight


  General News
  competitions | legal history
11 March 2022

Using Scholarly Encyclopedias and Handbooks as Research Tools

Legal encyclopedias don't always seem like the most helpful research tools for academic legal writing. American Jurisprudence (Am. Jur.) and Corpus Juris Secundum (CJS) provide solid background information, but often that information is …

Iantha Haight

by Iantha Haight


  Electronic Resources
  research | international law
04 March 2022

Free Download: Legal Tech Dictionary from Wolters Kluwer

Jared Correia, CEO of Red Cave Consulting and legal tech writer at Above the Law, has put together a dictionary of legal tech words that every lawyer should know. The dictionary is a …

Iantha Haight

by Iantha Haight


  Website Recommendations
  Legal Technology
03 March 2022

Sign Up for the Immigration Clinic & Practice Prep Workshop

On Thursday, March 17th at 11am the Library will present Immigration Clinic & Practice Prep, a workshop focused on practical resources and tools for immigration law practice and service in the Community Law …

Iantha Haight

by Iantha Haight


  Law Library News
  immigration law | library workshop
28 February 2022

Entries for UniCourt’s API Legal Tech Competition Due March 31st

Have an idea that uses docket APIs to create a legal tech product or solve a problem? Docket and legal analytics innovator UniCourt is holding their first ever Legal Innovation contest. Entering is …

Iantha Haight

by Iantha Haight


  Electronic Resources, General News
  Legal Technology | competitions
16 February 2022

How to Use SSRN to Perform a Preemption Check

Doing a preemption check--a search for articles that have made the same argument or used the same thesis as your paper--is a critical first step when writing any academic paper that calls for …

Iantha Haight

by Iantha Haight


  Electronic Resources
  substantial writing
11 February 2022

Get Free Student Access to iPad Trial Presentation Apps

LIT SUITE is set of litigation-focused apps designed to save attorney time in and out of the courtroom, and they are available to law students to try out for free! Exclusively for the …

Iantha Haight

by Iantha Haight


  Practice Materials
  litigation | Legal Technology
02 February 2022

Participate in the Law School’s 3MT Competition!

BYU's 3MT (Three-Minute Thesis) Competition is a campus-wide contest with cash prizes in which students have three minutes to present their research projects. This is a great opportunity to practice presentation/oral advocacy skills …

Iantha Haight

by Iantha Haight


  Law School News
  advocacy | competitions | research
28 January 2022

Justice Breyer and the Lost Cause

More than 120 people have clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer during his time at the Supreme Court, and many of them now among the ranks of elite appellate attorneys (Neal Katyal) and law …

Iantha Haight

by Iantha Haight


  General News
  Supreme Court
26 January 2022

Coming Soon: Workshops on Historical Legal Research and SEC Filings

We have two workshops coming up in early February on advanced legal topics. Please register if you're interested! Library Workshop: Historical Legal Research will be held on Thursday, February 3, 2022 from 11am-11:30am …

Iantha Haight

by Iantha Haight


  Law Library News
  library workshop | securities research | historical legal research
20 January 2022

How to Become an Expert in Anything (Especially Fintech)

Paul Watkins presented fascinating advice at BYU Law’s Future of Law Forum yesterday on how to become an expert. Watkins has an impressive resume—he’s an attorney at Patomak Global Partners, the founder of …

Iantha Haight

by Iantha Haight


  Electronic Resources, Law School News
  fintech
18 January 2022

New Resource: The Financial Times

The Financial Times is one of the world's premier resources for business and financial news and analysis. Based in London, FT focuses on the global economy but it also has extensive coverage of …

Iantha Haight

by Iantha Haight


  Electronic Resources
  newspapers
11 January 2022

New Time for the Substantial Writing Workshop

The Library Workshop on researching and refining your substantial writing topic has been moved to 11 am on Thursday, January 20th. You can attend in-person in Room 267 or on Zoom. This will …

Iantha Haight

by Iantha Haight


  Law Library News
  library workshop | substantial writing
06 January 2022

Substantial Writing Workshop on January 20th

The Library is hosting a 30-minute workshop on Thursday, January 20th at noon on researching and refining your substantial writing topic in Room 267 in the library. The workshop will also be available …

Iantha Haight

by Iantha Haight


  Law Library News
  substantial writing | library workshop
03 January 2022

Wolters Kluwer Online Study Aid Library Now Aspen Learning Library

The website for accessing Examples & Explanations, Glannon Guides, and other classic study aids has changed its name from the Wolters Kluwer Online Study Aid Library to Aspen Learning Library. The study aids …

Iantha Haight

by Iantha Haight


  Electronic Resources
  study aids
20 December 2021

A Tool for Finding What You Need on Congress.gov

Congress.gov may be the best website outside of govinfo.gov for locating federal government information. It has drafts of bills, final versions of laws, legislation tracking, committee reports, treaties, presidential nominations information, legislator profiles, …

Iantha Haight

by Iantha Haight


  Electronic Resources
  congress.gov | legislative research
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