11 November 2009
Kucana v. Holder
Oral argument in Kucana v. Holder, the case in which Professor RonNell Andersen Jones acted as co-counsel, was heard before the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday. BYU Law students assisted Professor Jones with the …
10 November 2009
Prof. Tarkington Article
Professor Margaret Tarkington has recently posted her newest article, "A Free Speech Right to Impugn Judicial Integrity in Court Proceedings," to SSRN. Download it here. Professor Tarkington's article has been accepted for publication …
05 November 2009
Michael Goldsmith
I, like many others, am mourning the loss of Professor Michael Goldsmith this week. He was a true "can do" lawyer, like he always taught his students to be. I enjoyed Paul Rolly's …
03 November 2009
Legal Research for Academic Papers
In our legal research classes we do our best to get you ready to conduct legal research when you go out to practice. Because of that we don't always get into all the …
30 October 2009
KeyCite Limits – Clear All
When using KeyCite on Westlaw you'll often find cases that have been cited many times. Roe v. Wade, for example, has nearly 20,000 citing documents. The only feasible way to deal with so …
26 October 2009
Prof. Fleming Articles
Professor null has recently posted two of his articles on SSRN. Some Perspectives from the United States on the Worldwide Taxation vs. Territorial Taxation Debate (with Robert J. Peroni and Stephen E. Shay) …
21 October 2009
Searching HeinOnline
HeinOnline is one of our favorite resources here in the Law Library. It offers PDF versions of many great legal resources. While many students and faculty are familiar with HeinOnline and its content, …
15 October 2009
BYU Law Ranked #27
Brian Leiter has recently released his Ranking of Top 40 Law Schools by Student (Numerical) Quality for 2009 and BYU Law has come in ranked at #27. The ranking is based on "the …
08 October 2009
Legal Abbreviations
Legal citation is full of legal abbreviations. A number of these are easily recognized by legal researchers (P.2d, F.Supp, U.S., etc); however, many others are completely foreign (A.N., EWiR, W.L.R.,). You'll probably encounter …
05 October 2009
Lynn Wardle Articles
Professor null has recently posted two of this articles to SSRN. Click on the titles to read the abstracts and download the papers. Restructuring Democracy or Lawlessness? Critical Reflections on in Re Marriage …
01 October 2009
New Shepard’s Signal
LexisNexis has recently released a new Shepard's Signal for statutes. The red encircled exclamation point you may encounter when shepardizing a statute indicates "that citing references in the Shepard's Citations Service contain strong …
24 September 2009
Religion Case Reporter
The Law Library has recently acquired access to the Religion Case Reporter - "the only publication in the United States devoted exclusively to reporting and indexing judicial opinions addressing the interaction between law …
18 September 2009
LexisNexis Headnotes
Headnotes, found at the beginning of cases in both Westlaw and LexisNexis, are a valuable research tool. Because of their long life and their impact on legal research and the legal profession, West's …
15 September 2009
Kevin Worthen Articles
Professor null, former Dean of the Law School and now Advancement Vice President of BYU, has recently posted many of his articles to SSRN. Click on the following titles to view the abstracts …
10 September 2009
Choosing a Paper Topic
One of the things I talked about in the Academic Legal Research training today was choosing a topic for a case note or seminar paper. There are lots of different ways to go …
04 September 2009
BYU Law Ranked #7
The U.S. News and World Report has recently ranked law schools based on the percentage of graduates in federal judicial clerkships. BYU Law tied for 7th with the University of Michigan at 14%. …
01 September 2009
David Moore Papers
One of our newest faculty members, David H. Moore, has recently posted some of his papers on SSRN. Law(Makers) of the Land: The Doctrine of Treaty Non-Self-Execution Medellin, the Alien Tort Statute, and …
21 August 2009
More Power
While students were gone this summer the Law Library invested in bringing electricity to many of the tables on the north side of the law library. This includes the long row of tables …
