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 …
While students were gone this summer the Law Library invested in bringing electricity to many of the tables on the north side of the law library. This includes the long row of tables near the windows on both the 2d and 3d …
All of us at the Howard W. Hunter Law Library would like to welcome the new 1Ls. We're glad you decided on BYU Law and we'll do our best to make your time here worthwhile. As a Library faculty and staff we …
Each year I offer legal research training to the various journals here at the law school. We generally focus on where to find PDF versions of the various sources commonly needed for source pulls. I also distribute an electronic handout with urls …
Professor null, former interim dean of the law school, was quoted at length in a recent preLaw Magazine article titled Fostering Faith. The article discusses religiously-affiliated law schools, of which there are 49 across the country. Thanks to law librarian Galen Fletcher …
A bit of shameless self-promotion here, but hopefully it will benefit those of you planning on practicing in Utah. CALI (who you may have noticed revamped its website this summer) has recently published a lesson I authored titled Utah Legal Research. Like …
