As you arrange your schedule for Winter semester, keep in mind that there are some great classes to help you expand your research skills and to learn more about law librarianship.  These classes are all taught by our full-time law librarians. Advanced …

Tomorrow the Law School will host the Utah Supreme Court as they hear two cases in the Moot Court Room.  This is a fantastic opportunity for the students to watch the State's highest court in action and we're grateful that the Court …

The Law School was fortunate to hear today from the Honorable Jennifer W. Elrod of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.  Her lecture was titled "State Courts: The Immediate and Visible Guardians of Life and Property."  In discussing …

We've been talking about law reviews in our legal research class recently, so I was interested to see Adam Liptak's New York Times column criticizing law reviews show up this week.  It didn't take long for the criticism to be criticized and …

We talk a lot about Westlaw and Lexis in our legal research classes, but there are a number of other low-cost/free legal research resources that law students and attorneys should be aware of.  Westlaw and Lexis are great tools, but they also …

A favorite past time at law school is complaining about the Bluebook--the legal community's most well-known citation system.  Well, it's time to put that complaining to good use and offer some suggestions to the editors of the Bluebook as they begin the …

Last week the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum hosted a reenactment of three habeas corpus hearings involving Joseph Smith in the 1840s.  The reenactments were followed by a panel discussion about habeas corpus and its application today.  The trial reenactments were a culmination …

I noticed the other day that HeinOnline changed their printer icon for a download icon.  This makes a lot of sense because the articles always had to be downloaded first before you could actually print them.  When first using HeinOnline some students …

If you're interested in learning more about public international law, the library's subscription to the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law is a great place to start.  With over 1600 peer-reviewed articles on various issues of public international law, the Max …

The Brigham Young University Law Review and the Howard W. Hunter Law Library have recently partnered to provide full-text access to all issues of the Law Review back to its inception in 1975.  Issues can be browsed by date, allowing users to …

Happy Constitution Day!  Constitution Day often takes on a different meaning for those that begin studying the law on a regular basis.  As might be expected, scholars are writing about the Constitution on a regular basis and the Law Library actively collects …

In our first year legal research class, we've recently discussed statutory research.  An annotated code is an extremely useful tool when doing statutory research because it provides references to cases and secondary sources that examine the code section you're researching.  Annotations can …

You may or may not have heard of a MOOC before, but that may not last long.  The National Law Journal reports (registration required) that MOOCS - massive open online courses - are starting to gain in popularity in law schools.  One …

Immigration law and policy is always a hot topic in the U.S.  In order to provide additional resources for research in the area of immigration law and policy, the law library has recently subscribed to HeinOnline's Immigration Law & Policy in the …

Yesterday the Law School was pleased to host Hannah Clayson Smith as she delivered the Honored Alumni Lecture.  Her lecture focused on religious freedom and her work with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.  If you attended the lecture you heard her …

Law students and lawyers read a lot.  First years are experiencing that fact for the first time this week.  We hope it's going well.  While reading in law school isn't going to go away, the law library subscribes to a resource that …

There are a number of printing and scanning options in the library.  The library is home to 3 of the 4 co-op printers.  One is in the basement and another is on the 3rd floor around the corner from the bathrooms.  The …