Earlier this month marked one year since the passing of Professor Michael Goldsmith. The most recent issue of the BYU Law Review contains a "Tribute to Professor Michael Goldsmith" that includes several articles from his colleagues.

Attorney, Edward Elkins, explores some of the reasons to head back to the law library after graduation in "Your Law School's Library is Your Best Friend...Really." Attorneys are welcome in our library and we hope you will come back after graduation. Here …

Many of you have registered for Winter semester classes already, but if you're like I was your schedule will change significantly before Jan. 3 — or maybe even later. We wanted to make sure you were aware of the classes offered by our …

Former law school dean Kevin Worthen recently posted his article The NCAA and Religion: Insights About Non-State Governance from Sunday Play and End Zone Celebrations to SSRN. Dean Worthen is currently serving as BYU's Advancement Vice-President and has significant involvement with BYU …

HeinOnline has recently completed their run of Utah Session Laws, taking them back to 1851. This is a tremendous asset to Utah legal researchers, as HeinOnline's Utah session laws previously only went back to 1980. Our thanks to the Utah State Law …

The Law Library has provided access to the Chicago Manual of Style Online for a number of years now.  Previously, users may have been turned away if multiple people were trying to access it at the same time.  Due to this resource's popularity, our new license …

Professor Brigham Daniels has recently posted his paper, When Agencies Go Nuclear: A Game Theoretical Approach to the Biggest Sticks in an Agency's Arsenal, to SSRN. More of Professor Daniels' papers can be found here.

The BYU Law Library has recently purchased a subscription to Westlaw Patron Access, a version of Westlaw open to the public. Westlaw Patron Access is available on the middle of the three computers that are currently open to the public. Our Westlaw …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …