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
03 February 2021
New ProQuest Trends & Policy: U.S. Immigration
We have a new electronic resource for immigration research! ProQuest Trends & Policy: U.S. Immigration is a great place to explore paper topics and start your research if you are doing your substantial …
25 January 2021
Announcing LexisNexis Digital Library Attorney Access
BYU Law Library is excited to announce the launch of LexisNexis Digital Library Attorney Access for Utah attorneys, paralegals, and BYU Law School alumni. LexisNexis Digital Library contains easy-to-use e-book versions of many …
20 January 2021
How To Do a Preemption Check
What’s a preemption check? A preemption check is a careful background check of your topic to see if anyone else has used your thesis or argument in a paper before. You don’t want …
11 January 2021
Fastcase and Casemaker Merge; ROSS Intelligence Closes Its Doors
Big changes in the legal research industry are underway. Last week two of the largest legal research alternatives to Lexis and Westlaw, Fastcase and Casemaker, announced their merger. This news comes on the …
19 November 2020
Chat With Us!
As the holidays and finals are approaching, and you may be traveling home, remember that you can always chat with a law librarian! We strive to offer our chat services 9am to 5pm …
12 November 2020
Exam Prep: How to Write Law School Essay Exams
You are probably a pretty good writer already, but writing law school essay exams is a distinct skill. A well-written exam essay will be organized and easy to grade. Law professors read lots …
09 November 2020
Researching Newspapers
Sometimes your research requires you to look at newspaper articles--sometimes newspaper articles that are more recent (even the week-of) and sometimes newspaper articles that are more historical. For example, a newspaper article from …
