Professor Cheryl Preston has recently published her article "All Knowledge is Not Equal: Facilitating Children's Access to Knowledge by Making the Internet Safer" in the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy. She has also posted it to SSRN and it is …
The legal research blogosphere was full of discussion today about Google Scholar's addition of free legal content. Here's the announcement from the Google Blog. When you head to Google Scholar you'll notice you can restrict your search to "Legal opinions and journals." …
The Law Library has a number of print study aids that can be quite useful to you as you study for finals. Many of these books provide outlines, explanations, and sample essay and multiple choice questions that can help you get ready. …
Tomorrow, November 14, we celebrate the birthday of Howard W. Hunter for whom the Law Library was named. After having a distinguished career as an attorney in California, President Hunter served in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of …
Oral argument in Kucana v. Holder, the case in which Professor RonNell Andersen Jones acted as co-counsel, was heard before the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday. BYU Law students assisted Professor Jones with the brief and BYU hosted the moot for the case. …
Professor Margaret Tarkington has recently posted her newest article, "A Free Speech Right to Impugn Judicial Integrity in Court Proceedings," to SSRN. Download it here. Professor Tarkington's article has been accepted for publication in the Boston College Law Review. Here's the abstract: …
When studying for final exams I always found it quite helpful to look at professor-specific sample exams. Doing so can give you a feel for how your professor has written exams in the past, as well as give you a practice run …
I, like many others, am mourning the loss of Professor Michael Goldsmith this week. He was a true "can do" lawyer, like he always taught his students to be. I enjoyed Paul Rolly's Salt Lake Tribune column about Prof. Goldsmith and wanted …
In our legal research classes we do our best to get you ready to conduct legal research when you go out to practice. Because of that we don't always get into all the research sources and techniques that may help you if …
The return of November means one thing in law school - finals are near. As scary as that may sound, there is still plenty of time to get ready. During the next few weeks I will blog about a number of services …
When using KeyCite on Westlaw you'll often find cases that have been cited many times. Roe v. Wade, for example, has nearly 20,000 citing documents. The only feasible way to deal with so many cases is to limit your KeyCite display. When …
Professor null has recently posted two of his articles on SSRN. Some Perspectives from the United States on the Worldwide Taxation vs. Territorial Taxation Debate (with Robert J. Peroni and Stephen E. Shay) The Deceptively Disparate Treatment of Business and Investment Interest …
HeinOnline is one of our favorite resources here in the Law Library. It offers PDF versions of many great legal resources. While many students and faculty are familiar with HeinOnline and its content, they are less familiar with how to search HeinOnline. …
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 …
