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 …
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 …
