As you're no doubt aware, it's the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address.  As a librarian I feel obligated to give you a book recommendation to help you celebrate.  Lincoln at Gettysburg is one of my favorite books and I highly recommend …

Do you need to brush up on torts or property?  How about business associations or tax?  CALI might be just the resource you need to get up to speed.  The Law Library’s subscription to CALI, the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, provides …

Last week we highlighted flash cards for your finals prep.  Today we'll talk about sample exams.  The Law Library has a number of sample exams for BYU Law professors and courses.  These sample exams are available electronically and can be null or through …

While it's hard to believe, November is here (and has been for almost a week!).  Unfortunately, November in law school means finals are around the corner.  Here in the Law Library we do all we can to help you get ready for …

Tomorrow the Law School will host the unveiling of a painting of Oliver Cowdery, the first Mormon lawyer.  The painting is being donated to the Law School and will be hung on the main floor of the Law Library.  The unveiling, along …

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 …