01 November 2010
Westlaw Patron Access
01 November 2010
Prof. Fleming Article
Professor Cliff Fleming has recently posted his newest article, Can Tax Expenditure Analysis Be Divorced From a Normative Tax Base?: A Critique of the 'New Paradigm' and its Denouement, to SSRN. This article …
27 October 2010
Effective Date on Westlaw
Legal researchers often ask me how to find out what a specific statutory section said on a specific date. There are a few ways to approach the problem. Westlaw's effective date tool is …
27 October 2010
Motion to Attend the World Series
I love baseball. I've been a fan of the San Francisco Giants since the days of Will Clark and Kevin Mitchell in the late '80s. Needless to say it's been a good October …
26 October 2010
Presumption of Innocence Before Trial in Malawi
Professor Shima Baradaran has posted her recent article, The Presumption of Innocence and Pretrial Detention in Malawi, to SSRN. As many of you know, Professor Baradaran was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the …
21 October 2010
Public Lands News
The BYU Law School community now has access to Public Lands News, a bimonthly newsletter detailing changes and issues affecting public lands policy. If you are interested in the area of public lands, …
21 October 2010
Free and Low-Cost Legal Research
In law school we focus a lot on Westlaw and LexisNexis, and with good reason. They are the leading legal research systems available. However, they also cost a lot of money-- something law …
14 October 2010
Fellowships Available
Recent grads and soon-to-be recent grads may be interested in a couple of fellowship opportunities at the University of Wisconsin. One focuses on legal history and the other on "law and society." More …
13 October 2010
Lieberman Receives BYU Law Award
Last week, the J. Reuben Clark Law Society and the International Center for Law and Religion Studies presented the International Religious Liberty Award to Senator Joseph Lieberman. Dean Jim Rasband presented the award …
06 October 2010
Ratification of the Constitution
Each year we celebrate Constitution Day to celebrate the signing of the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787. It took, however, until 1791 for the Constitution to be ratified by the States. This …
04 October 2010
Supreme Court in Session
Today is the first Monday in October, which means that the United States Supreme Court is back in session. The start of a new term always reminds me of some of my favorite …
28 September 2010
BYU Law Ranked #2 Again
National Jurist has recently ranked BYU Law #2 in its rankings of Best Value Law Schools for the second year in a row. Dean Jim Rasband is quoted in the article. Check out …
28 September 2010
Professors Baradaran
The Deseret News has a nice article on two of our newest professors, Mehrsa and Shima Baradaran. Sisters Become First Siblings Professors in History of BYU Law School
27 September 2010
Uncivil Action
The Moritz Legal Information Blog recently pointed me to an interesteting article in the Illinois Bar Journal about dealing with incivility, or as they renamed it "How to Deal with Jerks." It's an …
24 September 2010
Apps for Law Students
There are smartphone apps for just about anything these days and the law is no exception. I've blogged before about Fastcase's free legal research app, which I highly suggest you take a look …
21 September 2010
SCOTUS Reporter of Decisions
While this may interest a law librarian more than others, I thought I'd bring it to your attention. Recently the National Law Journal published an interview with the Supreme Court's reporter of decisions, …
17 September 2010
Constitution Day 2010
Today we celebrate the anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787. The law school will be holding a Supreme Court Review panel at 1pm with several former Supreme Court clerks, …
15 September 2010