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 …
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 …
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 …
The Wall Street Journal Law Blog had an interesting recent post about a new study done by Kaplan regarding law school admissions. Here's the part that blew me away, "The survey reports that 87% of law school admissions officers who answer the …
If you're looking for a job at a big law firm this summer you might want to check out Above the Law's Career Center. In addition to the typical information you can get elsewhere, the Career Center provides information from Above the …
Professor Carolina Nuñez's recent article, Fractured Membership: Deconstructing Territoriality to Secure Rights and Remedies for the Undocumented Worker, was featured in a recent Deseret News article. BYU Professor Says Courts Not Protecting Undocumented Workers
This summer the law library purchased the third installment of the Making of Modern Law Series, Primary Sources, 1620-1926. This digital historical collection contains published records of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, state codes, city charters, law dictionaries, digests, …
Professor Brigham Daniels is one of our new additions to the law school this year. He comes to us from the University of Houston Law Center with an expertise in environmental law. He has written a number of articles on environmental law …
We welcome all of you incoming 1Ls who are joining us for the first time today. As you'll most likely be spending quite a bit of your time with us here in the law library we want to introduce ourselves. We try …
Loislaw is a low-cost alternative to Westlaw and Lexis. While it doesn't have all the bells and whistles as those two, it does provide primary legal materials in a searchable format for a reasonable price. A number of law firms use Loislaw …
Another year of school is just around the corner. One of the things that means is it's time to get your books--a doubly painful process as it costs a lot of money and you realize you'll actually have to read them. This …
Professor Carolina Nuñez's newest article, Fractured Membership: Deconstructing Territoriality to Secure Rights and Remedies for the Undocumented Worker, has recently been published in the Wisconsin Law Review and is now available on SSRN.
It's good to be back. After being gone for most of the month of July (visiting Colorado, North Carolina, and different parts of Utah) I'm happy to say the blog posts will start coming once again. As you've been out at different …
If you've searched our library catalog lately, you've noticed that things look quite different. We have recently implemented a Law Library version of the Lee Library's ScholarSearch. We hope it will help you find more of what you're looking for. To help …
The Law Library has recently purchased access to one of HeinOnline's newest libraries, History of Bankruptcy. This library boasts "more than 135,000 pages of legislative histories, treatises, documents, classics, and more related to bankruptcy in America." While all of these documents are …
Professor Tom Lee was confirmed today by the Utah State Senate in a unanimous vote and will now become a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court. KSL Audio from the Utah Senate Floor
BYU Law School is ranked 33rd in Brian Leiter's Ranking of Top 40 Law Schools by Student (Numerical) Quality 2010. The ranking is described as "the top 40 schools in terms of student quality as measured by the average of the 75th …
If you haven't heard, a new edition of the Bluebook has been released and is available this summer. I haven't received my copy yet (and would be lying if I said I was anxiously awaiting its arrival). Apparently Cynthia Pittson at the …
