01 April 2010
Finals are upon us and the law library is doing everything we can to make it a tolerable experience. As of last Monday we are now open until 1am. The extended hours schedule will continue until April 21. Those of you that …
31 March 2010
Dianne Davenport, our circulation manager here at the law library, recently recieved a Staff and Administrative Employee Recognition Award from the University. Dianne was nominated for the award by one of her student employees, Brendan Gallagher. We appreciate the great work Dianne …
29 March 2010
The BYU Hunter Law Library ranked 25th in this year's National Jurist magazine's ranking of best law libraries. In addition, the article accompanying the rankings has some BYU flavor to it. The article opens with a scene from the BYU Law Library …
26 March 2010
Last night was the Annual Awards Banquet and Barrister's Ball. It was a great event and we had the opportunity to celebrate the accomplishments of many of the Law School's students, faculty and staff. For those of you that couldn't attend, here …
24 March 2010
As lawyers attempt to cut costs in today's economy, free and low-cost legal research systems are becoming more and more popular. Many state bar associations have contracted with low-cost legal research vendors to provide a legal research system as a bar membership …
18 March 2010
The website of the Supreme Court of the United States has a new look today. I for one am appreciative of the face lift as the previous site was pretty outdated. At this point there doesn't appear to be much change in …
17 March 2010
Professor Gordon Smith has recently posted one of his newest articles, Unpacking Adaptability, to SSRN. Co-authored with Andreas Engert, this article was published in the Brigham Young University Law Review in 2009. For more of Professor Smith's papers on SSRN click here.
12 March 2010
BYU Law School will host the 2010 Conference of Religiously Affiliated Law Schools on March 18-19, 2010. The conference theme is "Blessing the Lives of Our Law Students: Opportunities and Challenges." Program and registration information is available here.
10 March 2010
You've all seen the grand piano on the main floor of the library. You've probably wondered if it ever gets used. Occasionally it does, and tonight is one of those occasions. The Library will host the Law School Recital at 7:30pm tonight …
08 March 2010
As a law student I never quite had a grasp on how to respond when an interviewer asked, "Do you have any questions for us?" I always came up with something, but I doubt it was particularly good. In that vein, I …
04 March 2010
We've talked here in the past about searching HeinOnline (see here and here). It takes some getting used to if you're coming from Google, Westlaw or Lexis, but can be very valuable to legal researchers. Hein has continued to improve its search …
02 March 2010
Elder Dallin H. Oaks, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the LDS Church, was at Harvard Law School last Friday to speak at the annual Mormonism 101 Series organized by the J. Reuben Clark Law Society's Harvard University …
26 February 2010
Wayne Schneider, the Law Library's Electronic Resources Manager, recently received the Staff and Administrative Employee Recognition Award from the University. Congratulations to Wayne! [caption id="attachment_717" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Law Library Director Kory Staheli presents the award to Wayne Schneider."][/caption]
25 February 2010
Professor David Dominguez has recently posted several of this articles to SSRN. Here's the list: Legal Education and the Ecology of Cultural Justice: How Affirmative Action Can Become Race-Neutral by 2028 Community Lawyering in the Juvenile Cellblock: Creative Uses of Legal Problem …
23 February 2010
We hope you got to relax and recharge your batteries a bit over Placement Break. Here at the Law Library we were trying to improve things for you and underwent a bit of construction. New power outlets are now installed near the …
22 February 2010
BYU Law was ranked 34th in this year's Go-To Law School List by The National Law Journal. The Go-To Law School List ranks law schools by percentage of 2009 J.D. graduates who were employed by NLJ 250 firms by the end of …
19 February 2010
Have you ever been frustrated by too much information when searching legal journals on Westlaw and Lexis? Full-text searching is wonderful, but at times it can be a bit overwhelming. Especially when you are searching for a general concept or one that …
17 February 2010
Professor null has recently posted one of his recent articles, Worse than Exemption, on SSRN. Co-authored with Robert J. Peroni and Stephen E. Shay, this article was published in the Emory Law Journal in 2009. Professor Fleming has recently been appointed to …
