28 October 2011
How Not to Succeed in Law School
How Not to Succeed in Law School (100 Yale L.J. 1679) is the title of a hilarious law journal article by our very own (not the Law School's very own anymore, but BYU's …
28 October 2011
State of Pretrial Detention
Professor Shima Baradaran has recently posted The State of Pretrial Detention to SSRN. This work is a chapter in The State of Criminal Justice, which is published by the American Bar Association. For …
13 September 2011
Smart Growth in Dumb Places
Professor Lisa Grow Sun's newest work-in-progress, Smart Growth in Dumb Places: Sustainability, Disaster, and the Future of the American City, is available for download on SSRN. Professor Sun's main area of research is …
18 July 2011
The Heart of the Law School
Beatrice A. Tice has a nice essay in the U.C. Irvine Law Review titled The Academic Law Library in the 21st Century: Still the Heart of the Law School. Tice, the Associate Dean for …
28 June 2011
Fair Trade and Child Labor
Professor Shima Baradaran has recently posted one of her newest articles, Fair Trade and Child Labor, to SSRN. This article was co-authored with Stephanie Barclay and will be published in the Columbia Human Rights Law …
20 June 2011
Summer Research Success
Law students are now well into their summer jobs and externships and we hope it's going well. Don't forget the law library is still around to help if you get stuck, so don't …
14 June 2011
Dead Precedents
The ABA Journal had an interesting article last month discussing the Supreme Court's practice of stealth overruling. This is a practice in which the justices avoid expressly overruling precedent, but in effect do overrule it by …
06 June 2011
Law Library History
The law library is always a different place in the summer. One reason is that there always seems to be some kind of construction going on nearby. The University is currently working to …
31 May 2011
Prof. Baradaran Op-Ed in NY Times
Following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Plata (the CA overcrowded prisons case), Professor Shima Baradaran penned an op-ed for the NY Times presenting her ideas about how CA and other states could go about reducing prison …
31 May 2011
The President’s Unconstitutional Treatymaking
Professor David Moore has recently posted his newest article, The President's Unconstitutional Treatymaking, to SSRN. The article is forthcoming in the UCLA Law Review. For more of Professor Moore's scholarship see his SSRN page.
26 May 2011
Writing Tips from the Supremes
Legal writing is an area where law students and lawyers can always improve. After my first year of law school I had the opportunity to extern for Justice Matthew Durrant at the Utah Supreme Court. Before …
12 May 2011
Private Ordering with Shareholder Bylaws
Professor Gordon Smith has recently posted his newest article, Private Ordering with Shareholder Bylaws, to SSRN. Co-authors of the paper include Matthew G. Wright and Marcus Kai Hintze. Here's the abstract: In this Article, we propose …
06 April 2011
The Search For Legislative Intent
Legislative history research is a skill all aspiring lawyers should gain. Because this type of research doesn't come up as often as statutory or case law research, it can be difficult to remember how …
31 March 2011
Understanding WestlawNext
By now most of you have been exposed to WestlawNext and many of you are using it frequently. I recently wrote a short column for Student Lawyer magazine that may help you understand a …
23 March 2011
Baradaran on the Separation of Banking and Commerce
Professor Mehrsa Baradaran has posted her newest paper, Reconsidering the Separation of Banking and Commerce, to SSRN. From the abstract: This Article examines the long-held belief that banking and commerce need to be kept separate …
25 February 2011
Baradaran on Pretrial Detention
Professor Shima Baradaran has recently posted two of her latest articles on pretrial detention to SSRN. In Due Process, Predictive Justice & the Presumption of Innocence, Prof. Baradaran examines "how the Due Process Clause provides …
10 February 2011
Legislative Process
Understanding what happens on the floor of the House or Senate can be complicated. You've heard about filibusters and cloture, but there are a number of other particular rules and procedures followed on …
04 February 2011
Baradaran on Banking
Professor Mehrsa Baradaran's article, The ILC and the Reconstruction of U.S. Banking, has recently been published in the Southern Methodist University Law Review and posted on SSRN.
