20 December 2021
A Tool for Finding What You Need on Congress.gov
Congress.gov may be the best website outside of govinfo.gov for locating federal government information. It has drafts of bills, final versions of laws, legislation tracking, committee reports, treaties, presidential nominations information, legislator profiles, …
19 November 2021
Boost Your Long-Term Memory Using This Study Tip
With final exams fast approaching, now is a good time to begin committing all of the legal principles you have studied this semester to long-term memory, if you haven't already started. Science has …
10 November 2021
Update Your Law Library Database Bookmarks!
You have probably noticed the new login screen requesting your law school gmail address and password when you access the Wolters Kluwer Study Aid Library or HeinOnline. Make sure you update any bookmarks …
01 November 2021
Cheetah Rebranding as VitalLaw With More Statutes
Research platform Cheetah is rebranding as VitalLaw starting today, November 1st. VitalLaw is a competitor of Lexis+ and Westlaw and provides access to primary law like cases and statutes alongside secondary materials like …
26 October 2021
Now Use Google to Log In to Law Library Databases
We are transitioning to a new way to log in to Law Library databases using your Law School Gmail address and password. Instead of seeing our former screen with a white background asking …
07 October 2021
30 September 2021
Last Reminder for 2Ls & 3Ls to Re-register for Quimbee
2Ls and 3Ls who registered for a Law Library-hosted Quimbee account in prior years must re-register using an email invitation from Quimbee. 2Ls and 3Ls who have not re-registered using the email invitation …
24 August 2021
2Ls and 3Ls Must Re-register for Quimbee
Quimbee has a new registration system this year, and all 2Ls and 3Ls must re-register their accounts. This requirement applies to all students who previously set up Quimbee accounts through the BYU Law …
26 April 2021
Faculty Research Assistant Research Training for Summer 2021
Attention Law Student Research Assistants for Faculty: I will be conducting a Faculty Research Assistant Research Training on Monday, May 3 from 12pm to 1pm via Zoom. Email me (HickmanA@law.byu.edu) for the Zoom …
14 April 2021
Student Summer Research: Westlaw, Lexis & More
Rising 2Ls, 3Ls, and 4Ls You have unlimited access to your Bloomberg Law and Lexis accounts to do research over the summer, whether for a paid position, a paper, a professor, a co-curricular, …
31 March 2021
Why I Think All Law Students Should Subscribe to Westlaw’s Daily Docket
Westlaw finally released a legal news product last December called Westlaw Today. You can find Westlaw Today using the dropdown menu next to the Westlaw logo in the upper-left of the screen (where …
26 March 2021
Scales of Memory and Comparative Constitutional Law Research
BYU Law School is hosting a virtual book launch event today for Professor Justin Collings' new book, Scales of Memory: Constitutional Justice and Historical Evil, published by Oxford University Press. According to OUP, …
23 March 2021
A Bird’s-Eye View of Tax Research Databases
Tax law is among the most complex and technical legal fields, complicated by the fact that it is constantly changing. This article provides a quick overview of commercial databases that specialize in tax …
16 March 2021
AILALink’s New Feature Identifies ‘Frozen’ Provisions in the CFR
Courts enjoined or vacated many regulations enacted by the Trump administration. However, those rules still show up in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) despite not being in effect. Even a good researcher …
11 March 2021
Federal Administrative Law: What is the eCFR and the List of Statutes Affected?
The Government Printing Office (GPO) and the Office of the Federal Register (OFR) in the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) are developing a continuously updated, electronic version of the Code of Federal Regulations called …
02 March 2021
Frustrated With Zero Search Results? Try Lexis Search Tree
Has this ever happened to you? You enter your keywords into a database to search for case law or journal articles only to retrieve 10,000+ search results. Then you try to narrow your …
25 February 2021
Get Better Results When Searching Multiple Libraries in HeinOnline
There's a lot more to HeinOnline than just law journals. HeinOnline has many libraries of content, ranging from U.S. Congressional and Executive documents to foreign and international law and subject-based collections like the …
11 February 2021
