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 …
Information on summer access to Westlaw, Lexis, Bloomberg Law, and other Law Library databases. Rising 2Ls and 3Ls Students who will be returning to law school next fall have access to Westlaw during the summer but should not use their …
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 two more weeks to tweak your idea …
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 competition is a huge commitment for busy …
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 and Rare Books Section of the American …
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 too basic and we need to dig …
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 light and sometimes funny take on legal …
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 Clinic. The 30-minute session will be held …
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 easy–submit a one sentence summary that pitches …
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 original work. SSRN has many papers that …
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 iPad, the apps include: TrialPad, the OG …
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 in a low-stakes environment. Not a lot …
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 school deans (Stanford, Virginia, Penn). Reuters spoke …
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 in Room 267. This session will focus …
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 the Office of Innovation at the Consumer …
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 U.S. political and other general news. Reading …
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 be a 30-minute presentation with time for …
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 on Zoom. The Zoom link will go …
