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 …
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, …
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 …
01 February 2021
Self-Help Materials for Utah Law
A unique self-help resource in the BYU Law Library is a set of recent booklets about Utah law. We receive the booklets (which were originally CLE, or Continuing Legal Education, materials) from the …
11 January 2021
Research Consultations with Law Librarians
BYU Law Students: Are you doing your substantial writing requirement this semester? Or are you writing an academic paper for a class this semester? Or do you just want to write a new …
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 …
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 …
12 October 2020
Researching Court Documents
You may need to research court documents for an RA project or for a paper or externship. Court documents are any documents that are filed in case proceedings, sometimes by the attorneys, other …
06 October 2020
Historical Utah Codes
The BYU Law Library keeps previous versions of the Utah Code, so we've built up quite an extensive collection of historical Utah Codes. We have from 1855 to the present. We also have …
27 August 2020
Beginner’s Bluebook Guide
Introduction An important aspect of Legal Research and Writing is knowing how to use the Bluebook. You may be familiar with citation styles, such as MLA, APA, or Chicago. The Bluebook is the …
03 June 2020
26 May 2020
Accessing Oxford Scholarship Online
Some BYU Law students and faculty are struggling to access sources on Oxford Scholarship Online. While we are working on our IT end to fix it, here is a workaround: 1. Go to lawlibrary.byu.edu. …
04 May 2020
29 January 2020
Bar Application Resources
'Tis the season for Bar applications. Did you know that the BYU Law Library has a few resources to help you out? There are several notaries in the BYU Law Library that offer …
16 January 2020
Stata
Is data science a necessary part of research or a project you are doing? The library now has Stata, which is a software for statistics and data. With Stata, you can explore, visualize, …
13 December 2019
Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc.
Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc. is a case pending before the Supreme Court of the United States[1] and had its oral arguments last week.[2] What’s interesting from a law librarian’s perspective about this case …
02 December 2019
American Law Reports
Stuck on a topic and none of your Westlaw or Lexis searches seem to be helping? Want a lot of in-depth information about a topic quickly? Find an American Law Report (A.L.R.) …
15 November 2019
The Miracle of Interlibrary Loan
Did you know that if you are a BYU Law student or faculty member and you can’t find what you need in the BYU Law library, then the Interlibrary Loan staff can order …
