Articles and Books

The Law School was fortunate to hear today from the Honorable Jennifer W. Elrod of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.  Her lecture was titled "State Courts: The Immediate …

We've been talking about law reviews in our legal research class recently, so I was interested to see Adam Liptak's New York Times column criticizing law reviews show up this week.  It didn't …

A favorite past time at law school is complaining about the Bluebook--the legal community's most well-known citation system.  Well, it's time to put that complaining to good use and offer some suggestions to …

The Brigham Young University Law Review and the Howard W. Hunter Law Library have recently partnered to provide full-text access to all issues of the Law Review back to its inception in 1975.  …

Happy Constitution Day!  Constitution Day often takes on a different meaning for those that begin studying the law on a regular basis.  As might be expected, scholars are writing about the Constitution on …

Professor Fred Gedicks' latest article, Incorporation of the Establishment Clause Against the States: A Logical, Textual, and Historical Account, was recently published in the Indiana Law Journal.  For more of Professor Gedicks' articles, take …

A number of BYU Law faculty have posted new articles to SSRN in the last few months.  It's been a busy spring, so I haven't gotten around to writing about them yet.  Here's …

Finals are over.  The Write-on is done.  Now it's time for summer jobs and externships to begin.  Summertime is often where students realize how important legal research is to the practice of law. …

One week of finals down, a few more days to go.  Good luck to everyone studying hard!  Don't forget that the Law Library has a number of great resources and services to help …

Professor Gordon Smith has recently added his newest paper, Law and Entrepreneurial Opportunities, to SSRN.  This article was co-authored with Darian Ibrahim from the University of Wisconsin Law School and will appear in …

Professor Shima Baradaran has recently posted her newest article, Does International Law Matter?, to SSRN.  The article, which is co-authored by Michael Findley, Daniel Nielson, and J.C. Sharman, will be published in the …

The Washington & Lee Law Library has recently updated its Law Journal Rankings to include data from 2012.  The rankings take into account citations to journals during the last eight years, with the …

When you think about legal research, it's likely things like cases, statutes, and regulations come to mind.  That's good because that's what we focus on in a basic legal research course in law …

Professor Aaron Nielson, our newest professor, has recently published an op-ed in the National Law Journal discussing the D.C. Circuit's recent announcement that they will no longer follow the Federal Judges Law Clerk …

Professor Cheryl Preston and co-author Brandon Crowther have posted their latest article, Minor Restrictions: Adolescence Across Legal Disciplines, the Infancy Doctrine, and the Restatement (Third) of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment, on SSRN.  The …

Welcome back!  We hope you enjoyed your time off.  I certainly did--enough so that I was nonexistent on this blog over the break.  As you ease back into school, you may have noticed …

Professor Shima Baradaran's study, Predicting Violence, was recently cited in a Salt Lake Tribune article about Utah's pretrial jail release program.  Predicting Violence was published in the Texas Law Review earlier this year.