09 August 2011
Title 51
One of the facts about the United States Code that you may or may not remember from your legal research class is that it has 50 titles. That's a fact that's been repeated to law students …
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 …
01 August 2011
New U.S. Code Site
Last week, Robert Ambrogi reported that the Office of Law Revision Council, who has responsiblity for preparing and publishing the U.S. Code, recently released a new official site for the U.S. Code. The site is currently in …
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 …
18 July 2011
The Heart of the Law School
Beatrice A. Tice has a nice essay in the U.C. Irvine Law Review titled The Academic Law Library in the 21st Century: Still the Heart of the Law School. Tice, the Associate Dean for …
15 July 2011
Law Library Construction
Earlier in the week I tweeted links to a few videos (here and here) showing some of the law school's construction projects going on this summer. Here in the law library we have some of …
13 July 2011
Subject Guides
There is so much information out there (legal and otherwise) that it's nice to get some tips on where to start. That's where librarians come in. Here at the BYU law library, we …
11 July 2011
BYU Law Library on Twitter
The BYU Law Library is now on Twitter. Follow us @BYUlawlibrary to keep up to date with our blog, Hunter's Query, as well as other goings on here in the law library.
05 July 2011
Crime Statistics
One of the great things about being a law librarian is discovering new and useful information. Recently, while researching some criminal law and procedure issues, I came across the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports. The …
30 June 2011
SCOTUS Stats
If you weren't one already, law school has a way of turning students into Supreme Court watchers. Now that the most recent term is over, SCOTUSblog (which all law students should become familiar with) …
28 June 2011
Fair Trade and Child Labor
Professor Shima Baradaran has recently posted one of her newest articles, Fair Trade and Child Labor, to SSRN. This article was co-authored with Stephanie Barclay and will be published in the Columbia Human Rights Law …
24 June 2011
Vendor-neutral Citation
I can't say I love legal citation. I understand why we have it and it's useful to me when I want to look up what's being cited, but some of the rules frustrate …
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 …
31 May 2011
Prof. Baradaran Op-Ed in NY Times
Following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Plata (the CA overcrowded prisons case), Professor Shima Baradaran penned an op-ed for the NY Times presenting her ideas about how CA and other states could go about reducing prison …
31 May 2011
The President’s Unconstitutional Treatymaking
Professor David Moore has recently posted his newest article, The President's Unconstitutional Treatymaking, to SSRN. The article is forthcoming in the UCLA Law Review. For more of Professor Moore's scholarship see his SSRN page.
26 May 2011
Writing Tips from the Supremes
Legal writing is an area where law students and lawyers can always improve. After my first year of law school I had the opportunity to extern for Justice Matthew Durrant at the Utah Supreme Court. Before …
12 May 2011
Private Ordering with Shareholder Bylaws
Professor Gordon Smith has recently posted his newest article, Private Ordering with Shareholder Bylaws, to SSRN. Co-authors of the paper include Matthew G. Wright and Marcus Kai Hintze. Here's the abstract: In this Article, we propose …
10 May 2011
Want to Clerk for Congress?
Clerking for Congress may become a real possibility for law school graduates according to the National Law Journal. There are still some hurdles to clear before Congressional clerkships become a reality, but if you're …
