Yesterday Google announced that it's improving its legal citator by changing how it presents citations to legal opinions. From the Google Scholar Blog: "Now, instead of sorting the citing documents by their prominence, we sort them by the extent of discussion of …
HeinOnline is one of the most popular databases we offer--and rightfully so. Its vast collection of pdf legal materials creates an incredible tool for researchers (especially those of you doing source pulls). While most of our users pull documents from HeinOnline regularly, …
Bloomberg is a well-known name in the business and financial sectors. In the past few years it has attempted to become more of a player in the legal sector as well. In fact, Bloomberg has its sights on the big boys of …
Each year the Washington and Lee School of Law announces its rankings of the nation's law journals. In a nutshell, the Washington and Lee Law Journal ranking is based on a "weighted combination of both impact-factor and total cites" over the last …
The Law School is privileged to have Justice Goodwin Liu of the California Supreme Court as its Jurist-in-residence beginning tomorrow. As many of you are aware, Justice Liu was previously a professor at Boalt Hall and has several publications to his name …
The Law Library is always looking for new resources that will be valuable to researchers. One of our most recent purchases is a database that will make federal legislative history research a less-daunting task than it has been previously. The database is …
Administrative agencies are interesting creatures in our system of government. They are part of the executive branch, but have quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial powers that must be considered when doing legal research. Regulations, which stem from the quasi-legislative power, are not featured prominently …
Professor Fred Gedicks has recently posted his newest article, Establishment Clause Incorporation: A Logical, Textual, and Historical Defense, to SSRN. For more of Professor Gedicks' articles click here.
We know it's a tough job market and we want to do everything we can to help. One of the resources you might find useful in your job search is The Leadership Library. The Leadership Library is a database of …
One of the things Valentine's Day makes me think of is poetry. That probably comes from the fact that my mom used to write us poems for Valentine's Day. The only poetry I remember attempting were assignments in school, which is where …
At the reference desk we often get questions about how to do legislative history research. The library has several electronic databases that can help if you're looking for federal legislative history documents. To make these databases more accessible, we've created a legislative …
Professor Cheryl Preston and co-author Brandon Crowther have recently posted their article, Infancy Doctrine Inquiries, to SSRN. The article, published in the Santa Clara Law Review, examines this contract law doctrine in light of our increasingly digital world. Update: A related article …
The Utah Legislature is currently in session. Bills are being introduced, discussed, debated, amended, and some will ultimately be passed, signed by the Governor and become law. Once they become law they will be known as session laws and will be compiled …
With one of its professors, Larry EchoHawk, serving in the Obama administration as Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, BYU Law School has a unique connection to American Indian Law. To support research and scholarship in this area, the Law Library has recently …
One of the things I love most about my job as a law librarian is trying to find ways to get students interested in legal research. I'm not going to lie--it's not always easy! But, legal research is important to an aspiring …
Professor Shima Baradaran has recently posted her newest article, Race, Prediction, and Pretrial Detention, to SSRN. The article is co-authored with Professor Frank McIntyre. Here's the abstract: "We use a large, nationally representative and detailed database on criminal defendants to predict the …
The law school was privileged to host Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of the University of California, Irvine School of Law on Friday as part of the law review symposium. Dean Chemerinsky spoke for nearly an hour without notes on "The Supreme Court's Failure …
Tomorrow and Friday the Brigham Young University Law Review will put on a symposium titled, The Press, the Public, and the U.S. Supreme Court. I can't honestly say that every law review symposium I see looks especially intriguing, but this one certainly …
