Faculty Interest

While most of us use HeinOnline for its law journal collection, it has many other resources that are worth becoming familiar with. Hein has recently announced a new collection, World Constitutions Illustrated: Contemporary …

Finals are over and soon law students will head off to summer jobs and externships. But, just because you won't be around this summer doesn't mean the library will abandon you. There are …

Legal treatises are an extremely important legal research tool. It's been a topic on this blog before and it's something you should be aware of before you head off for your summer work. …

Elder D. Todd Christofferson, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the LDS Church, spoke at Duke Law School on March 16. Elder Christofferson, who is a graduate of Duke …

Professor Lisa Grow Sun has recently posted her article, Disaster Mythology and the Law, to SSRN. Professor Sun's article has been accepted for publication in the Cornell Law Review.

Dianne Davenport, our circulation manager here at the law library, recently recieved a Staff and Administrative Employee Recognition Award from the University. Dianne was nominated for the award by one of her student …

The BYU Hunter Law Library ranked 25th in this year's National Jurist magazine's ranking of best law libraries. In addition, the article accompanying the rankings has some BYU flavor to it. The article …

Last night was the Annual Awards Banquet and Barrister's Ball. It was a great event and we had the opportunity to celebrate the accomplishments of many of the Law School's students, faculty and …

As lawyers attempt to cut costs in today's economy, free and low-cost legal research systems are becoming more and more popular. Many state bar associations have contracted with low-cost legal research vendors to …

The website of the Supreme Court of the United States has a new look today. I for one am appreciative of the face lift as the previous site was pretty outdated. At this …

Professor Gordon Smith has recently posted one of his newest articles, Unpacking Adaptability, to SSRN. Co-authored with Andreas Engert, this article was published in the Brigham Young University Law Review in 2009. For …

BYU Law School will host the 2010 Conference of Religiously Affiliated Law Schools on March 18-19, 2010. The conference theme is "Blessing the Lives of Our Law Students: Opportunities and Challenges." Program and …

You've all seen the grand piano on the main floor of the library. You've probably wondered if it ever gets used. Occasionally it does, and tonight is one of those occasions. The Library …

We've talked here in the past about searching HeinOnline (see here and here). It takes some getting used to if you're coming from Google, Westlaw or Lexis, but can be very valuable to …

Elder Dallin H. Oaks, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the LDS Church, was at Harvard Law School last Friday to speak at the annual Mormonism 101 Series organized …

Wayne Schneider, the Law Library's Electronic Resources Manager, recently received the Staff and Administrative Employee Recognition Award from the University. Congratulations to Wayne! [caption id="attachment_717" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Law Library Director Kory Staheli presents …

Professor David Dominguez has recently posted several of this articles to SSRN. Here's the list: Legal Education and the Ecology of Cultural Justice: How Affirmative Action Can Become Race-Neutral by 2028 Community Lawyering …