Faculty Interest

Legal researchers often ask me how to find out what a specific statutory section said on a specific date. There are a few ways to approach the problem. Westlaw's effective date tool is …

I love baseball. I've been a fan of the San Francisco Giants since the days of Will Clark and Kevin Mitchell in the late '80s. Needless to say it's been a good October …

Professor Shima Baradaran has posted her recent article, The Presumption of Innocence and Pretrial Detention in Malawi, to SSRN. As many of you know, Professor Baradaran was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the …

The BYU Law School community now has access to Public Lands News, a bimonthly newsletter detailing changes and issues affecting public lands policy. If you are interested in the area of public lands, …

Last week, the J. Reuben Clark Law Society and the International Center for Law and Religion Studies presented the International Religious Liberty Award to Senator Joseph Lieberman. Dean Jim Rasband presented the award …

Each year we celebrate Constitution Day to celebrate the signing of the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787. It took, however, until 1791 for the Constitution to be ratified by the States. This …

National Jurist has recently ranked BYU Law #2 in its rankings of Best Value Law Schools for the second year in a row. Dean Jim Rasband is quoted in the article. Check out …

The Deseret News has a nice article on two of our newest professors, Mehrsa and Shima Baradaran. Sisters Become First Siblings Professors in History of BYU Law School

While this may interest a law librarian more than others, I thought I'd bring it to your attention. Recently the National Law Journal published an interview with the Supreme Court's reporter of decisions, …

Today we celebrate the anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787. The law school will be holding a Supreme Court Review panel at 1pm with several former Supreme Court clerks, …

Professor Margaret Tarkington, who is visiting at the University of Cincinnati College of Law this year, has posted two of her newest articles to SSRN. The first, Government Speech and the Publicly Employed …

Dick Harmon's recent article in the Deseret News about the behind-the-scenes working of BYU's recent move to football independence and its deal with ESPN revealed that some of the key players have BYU …

Professor Carolina Nuñez's recent article, Fractured Membership: Deconstructing Territoriality to Secure Rights and Remedies for the Undocumented Worker, was featured in a recent Deseret News article. BYU Professor Says Courts Not Protecting Undocumented Workers

This summer the law library purchased the third installment of the Making of Modern Law Series, Primary Sources, 1620-1926.  This digital historical collection contains published records of the American colonies, documents published by state …

Professor Brigham Daniels is one of our new additions to the law school this year. He comes to us from the University of Houston Law Center with an expertise in environmental law. He …

Loislaw is a low-cost alternative to Westlaw and Lexis. While it doesn't have all the bells and whistles as those two, it does provide primary legal materials in a searchable format for a …

Professor Carolina Nuñez's newest article, Fractured Membership: Deconstructing Territoriality to Secure Rights and Remedies for the Undocumented Worker, has recently been published in the Wisconsin Law Review and is now available on SSRN.