I am sure you're all looking forward to registering for Winter classes in one week's time. In anticipation of that I wanted to alert you to a few classes taught by some of our law librarians that you may want to consider. …

Brian Leiter has recently released his Ranking of Top 40 Law Schools by Student (Numerical) Quality for 2009 and BYU Law has come in ranked at #27. The ranking is based on "the average of the 75th and 25th percentile LSAT scores …

Legal citation is full of legal abbreviations. A number of these are easily recognized by legal researchers (P.2d, F.Supp, U.S., etc); however, many others are completely foreign (A.N., EWiR, W.L.R.,). You'll probably encounter some unfamiliar abbreviations when performing a source pull or …

Professor null has recently posted two of this articles to SSRN. Click on the titles to read the abstracts and download the papers. Restructuring Democracy or Lawlessness? Critical Reflections on in Re Marriage Cases From Slavery to Same Sex Marriage: Comity Versus …

LexisNexis has recently released a new Shepard's Signal for statutes. The red encircled exclamation point you may encounter when shepardizing a statute indicates "that citing references in the Shepard's Citations Service contain strong negative treatment of the Shepardized section (for example, the …

The Law Library has recently acquired access to the Religion Case Reporter - "the only publication in the United States devoted exclusively to reporting and indexing judicial opinions addressing the interaction between law and religion." The Religion Case Reporter provides summaries and …

Organizing your research is an important part of the research process. You need a good way to keep track of all the cases, statutes, etc., and how they apply to your research problem. One resource that may be helpful to you is …

We appreciate all of the 2Ls who participated in the Legal Research Survey sent to you by your research professors. We had 84 responses. The information you provided us about the legal research you did over the summer will be very helpful …

Headnotes, found at the beginning of cases in both Westlaw and LexisNexis, are a valuable research tool. Because of their long life and their impact on legal research and the legal profession, West's headnotes with their Topics and Key Numbers have been …

Professor null, former Dean of the Law School and now Advancement Vice President of BYU, has recently posted many of his articles to SSRN. Click on the following titles to view the abstracts and download the articles. Who Decides and What Difference …

One of the things I talked about in the Academic Legal Research training today was choosing a topic for a case note or seminar paper. There are lots of different ways to go about selecting a topic. Often case note authors are …

The U.S. News and World Report has recently ranked law schools based on the percentage of graduates in federal judicial clerkships. BYU Law tied for 7th with the University of Michigan at 14%. The survey looked at 2007 graduates. Here's some further …

Above the Law reminds us that the deadline for the Attorney General's Honors Program at the U.S. Department of Justice is Tuesday, Sept. 8. Eligibility and application information is available here. The website notes that the "Honors Program is the only way …

Writing a case note or comment? Need to get started on a seminar paper? Can't find the right topic? Research for an academic paper can be a bit different than typical legal research. But, don't worry. The library's here to help. Join …

One of our newest faculty members, David H. Moore, has recently posted some of his papers on SSRN. Law(Makers) of the Land: The Doctrine of Treaty Non-Self-Execution Medellin, the Alien Tort Statute, and the Domestic Status of International Law Professor Moore joins …

Competition for judicial clerkships is expected to be heavier than normal this year due to law firm hiring (or lack thereof). Because of that I wanted to mention a few resources that can help when applying for judicial clerkships. Earlier this summer …

At the beginning of each semester I like to blog a bit about some of the useful resources the law library provides for students. One of these is Audio CaseFiles. Audio CaseFiles offers MP3 files of over 1,000 legal cases that are …

National Jurist Magazine has recently ranked BYU Law School #2 in its 2009 list of best value law schools. BYU was the only private law school on the list of 65. Read the full article here. Keeping down law school debt is …