13 February 2012
Legislative History Resources
At the reference desk we often get questions about how to do legislative history research. The library has several electronic databases that can help if you're looking for federal legislative history documents. To …
09 February 2012
State Session Laws
The Utah Legislature is currently in session. Bills are being introduced, discussed, debated, amended, and some will ultimately be passed, signed by the Governor and become law. Once they become law they will …
07 February 2012
American Indian Law Resources
With one of its professors, Larry EchoHawk, serving in the Obama administration as Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, BYU Law School has a unique connection to American Indian Law. To support research and …
09 January 2012
AudioCaseFiles
If there's one thing you do a lot in law school it's read. We've had one week of school and you've probably read (or at least have been assigned to read) several hundred …
02 December 2011
Electronic Devices on Airplanes and e-CFR
Everyone who's flown is familiar with the announcement to shut down portable electronic devices for take-0ff and landing. I was recently directed to an article in the New York Times (thanks to Above …
14 November 2011
Pentagon Papers
Recently my wife and I watched "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers." It was an interesting documentary about Ellsberg and his path from a Pentagon insider to …
08 November 2011
The Utah Law of Trusts & Estates
Some of the most useful legal research resources are legal treatises. If you can find a good one on your topic you can save a lot of research time. Unfortunately for us, there …
02 November 2011
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
Students and faculty at BYU Law have a number of international connections. Because of that, interest in foreign law is quite high. One resource you'll want to know about if you need secondary …
05 October 2011
Lexis Advance Beta Info
All BYU law students and faculty should now have access to Lexis Advance Beta. I blogged about Lexis Advance near the start of school, but now that you have your hands on it …
22 September 2011
CaseMap
One of the most important things about legal research is taking notes and staying organized. It really doesn't matter how you do it, the important thing is that you get it done. Legal …
07 September 2011
Free Federal Rules eBooks
CALI and the Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell Law School have recently announced that they are making the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure, and Evidence freely available as ebooks. The …
06 September 2011
1L Westlaw and Lexis Trainings
It's nice to have everyone back after our lack-of-power induced holiday on Friday and Labor day yesterday. We hope you're getting back to normal. This week the library is hosting 1L training on …
19 August 2011
Lexis Advance
A new semester is about to begin, so it's time to take a look at changes in legal research. The biggest change is the new version of LexisNexis that our students and faculty …
11 August 2011
CALI Upgrades
Any of you who have run CALI lessons have learned that they can be quite useful for learning or reviewing subjects for your classes. The Law Library's subscription to CALI …
03 August 2011
Debt Ceiling Bill and GPO
After all the discussion and debate, a debt ceiling deal was finally reached earlier this week. The bill passed into law is known as the Budget Control Act of 2011. It's useful to note …
20 July 2011
History of International Law
HeinOnline is one of our favorite resources here in the law library. Most law students know it as the place to get pdf versions of law reviews and journals, but it's much more than …
09 June 2011
WestlawNext Folder Sharing
One of the nice additions to WestlawNext is the ability to save your research in folders. WestlawNext has recently added the ability to share those research folders with other WestlawNext users. Research is often a …
04 May 2011
50 State Surveys
One of the most daunting and painful research projects asked of research assistants is the 50 state survey. In short, this requires you to find the law on a particular topic in all …
