First it was the "fiscal cliff," now "sequestration" is the buzzword of the hour surrounding Congress and the President. If you're not yet up to speed on sequestration, the Congressional Research Service's Report, Budget "Sequestration" and Selected Program Exemptions and Special Rules, …
Professor Shima Baradaran has recently posted her newest article, Does International Law Matter?, to SSRN. The article, which is co-authored by Michael Findley, Daniel Nielson, and J.C. Sharman, will be published in the Minnesota Law Review this year. The article and its …
The Washington & Lee Law Library has recently updated its Law Journal Rankings to include data from 2012. The rankings take into account citations to journals during the last eight years, with the combined score looking at impact factor and total cites. …
Think your SCOTUS-prediction skills are top notch? Put them to the test in Bloomberg Law/SCOTUSblog's Supreme Court Challenge. The competition features teams of law students predicting the outcomes of six merits cases and six petitions for cert. Cash prizes go to the …
When you think about legal research, it's likely things like cases, statutes, and regulations come to mind. That's good because that's what we focus on in a basic legal research course in law school. Beyond those basics, however, there's much more to …
Professor Aaron Nielson, our newest professor, has recently published an op-ed in the National Law Journal discussing the D.C. Circuit's recent announcement that they will no longer follow the Federal Judges Law Clerk Hiring Plan. The Volokh Conspiracy quotes a good chunk …
About this time of year we begin getting requests for help developing topics for papers. While we have several different resources that can be helpful, one that I like to show first is BNA. BNA (now Bloomberg BNA) produces a number of …
As some of you may have noticed, the Law Library recently purchased and installed a new KIC Scanner near the 2nd floor reference desk. This state of the art, face-up scanner has already proved quite popular with students in the short time …
The word "unpublished" can often be misleading in today's legal research environment. These days documents that are "unpublished" are now often published even though we still call them "unpublished." Confusing, I know. Take for example, unpublished hearings from Congress. Hearings can be …
Nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States are always a hot topic - especially in law school. With President Obama's reelection and the recent inauguration, the topic of potential SCOTUS picks is always lurking. While we can't predict the future, …
Professor Cheryl Preston and co-author Brandon Crowther have posted their latest article, Minor Restrictions: Adolescence Across Legal Disciplines, the Infancy Doctrine, and the Restatement (Third) of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment, on SSRN. The article examines the adoption of a minority rule in …
From grade school we learn about bills and how they become law. Some bills die, some are amended, some become law. No matter what happens, bills are an essential part of the legislative process and researchers often want to get their hands …
The Law Library recently added a new HeinOnline library - Congress and the Courts. This library provides access to legislative materials dealing with the composition and structure of Article III courts. If you're doing any kind of research regarding federal courts, from …
Welcome back! We hope you enjoyed your time off. I certainly did--enough so that I was nonexistent on this blog over the break. As you ease back into school, you may have noticed that our webpage looks slightly different--we have a new …
Professor Shima Baradaran's study, Predicting Violence, was recently cited in a Salt Lake Tribune article about Utah's pretrial jail release program. Predicting Violence was published in the Texas Law Review earlier this year.
Finals are underway and everyone's studying hard. But, all studiers need a break sometimes. If you want that break, but want to keep your mind in the legal realm you might want to check out Law and the Multiverse: Superheroes, Supervillains and …
From to time to time the Utah legislature reorganizes and renumbers certain titles in the Utah Code. This process is known as recodification. It's ultimate goal is to increase clarity and usability in a code title. However, recodification often throws researchers for …
After hearing repeatedly about the "Fiscal Cliff" there comes a time when you may want more detailed information than what the news is providing. The Law Librarian Blog recently linked to a CRS Report called "The 'Fiscal Cliff': Macroeconomic Consequences of Tax …
