01 November 2010
Professor Cliff Fleming has recently posted his newest article, Can Tax Expenditure Analysis Be Divorced From a Normative Tax Base?: A Critique of the 'New Paradigm' and its Denouement, to SSRN. This article was co-authored with Robert J. Peroni and was published …
27 October 2010
Legal researchers often ask me how to find out what a specific statutory section said on a specific date. There are a few ways to approach the problem. Westlaw's effective date tool is one of them. When you go into the United …
27 October 2010
I love baseball. I've been a fan of the San Francisco Giants since the days of Will Clark and Kevin Mitchell in the late '80s. Needless to say it's been a good October for me. So, while I disagree with this attorney's …
26 October 2010
Professor Shima Baradaran has posted her recent article, The Presumption of Innocence and Pretrial Detention in Malawi, to SSRN. As many of you know, Professor Baradaran was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Chancellor College of Law, University of Malawi, where she …
21 October 2010
The BYU Law School community now has access to Public Lands News, a bimonthly newsletter detailing changes and issues affecting public lands policy. If you are interested in the area of public lands, Public Lands News is a great resource to help …
21 October 2010
In law school we focus a lot on Westlaw and LexisNexis, and with good reason. They are the leading legal research systems available. However, they also cost a lot of money-- something law students can't always grasp while in law school when …
14 October 2010
Recent grads and soon-to-be recent grads may be interested in a couple of fellowship opportunities at the University of Wisconsin. One focuses on legal history and the other on "law and society." More information available from the Legal Scholarship Blog.
13 October 2010
Last week, the J. Reuben Clark Law Society and the International Center for Law and Religion Studies presented the International Religious Liberty Award to Senator Joseph Lieberman. Dean Jim Rasband presented the award to Senator Lieberman in Washington D.C. BYU Law Society's …
06 October 2010
Each year we celebrate Constitution Day to celebrate the signing of the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787. It took, however, until 1791 for the Constitution to be ratified by the States. This is a period constitutional researchers should be cognizant of …
04 October 2010
Today is the first Monday in October, which means that the United States Supreme Court is back in session. The start of a new term always reminds me of some of my favorite resources to find Supreme Court information. SCOTUSblog is my …
28 September 2010
National Jurist has recently ranked BYU Law #2 in its rankings of Best Value Law Schools for the second year in a row. Dean Jim Rasband is quoted in the article. Check out the actual rankings here.
28 September 2010
The Deseret News has a nice article on two of our newest professors, Mehrsa and Shima Baradaran. Sisters Become First Siblings Professors in History of BYU Law School
27 September 2010
The Moritz Legal Information Blog recently pointed me to an interesteting article in the Illinois Bar Journal about dealing with incivility, or as they renamed it "How to Deal with Jerks." It's an article all law students should take a look at, …
24 September 2010
There are smartphone apps for just about anything these days and the law is no exception. I've blogged before about Fastcase's free legal research app, which I highly suggest you take a look at if you haven't already. Vicki Steiner at the …
21 September 2010
While this may interest a law librarian more than others, I thought I'd bring it to your attention. Recently the National Law Journal published an interview with the Supreme Court's reporter of decisions, Frank Wagner, who is set to retire on Sept. …
17 September 2010
Today we celebrate the anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787. The law school will be holding a Supreme Court Review panel at 1pm with several former Supreme Court clerks, most of which are BYU law professors. Also, tonight …
15 September 2010
Professor Margaret Tarkington, who is visiting at the University of Cincinnati College of Law this year, has posted two of her newest articles to SSRN. The first, Government Speech and the Publicly Employed Attorney, is forthcoming in the Brigham Young University Law …
14 September 2010
Dick Harmon's recent article in the Deseret News about the behind-the-scenes working of BYU's recent move to football independence and its deal with ESPN revealed that some of the key players have BYU Law ties. Former law school dean Kevin Worthen was …
