Goldsmith Coverage
Professor Michael Goldsmith was in Yankee Stadium Saturday to throw out the first pitch and to take part in the "MLB 4 ALS" campaign that he initiated. Here's some of the news coverage: New York Times Today
Library & Legal Resources News
Independence Day 2009
Due to July 4 falling on a Saturday this year, the Law Library will be closed both tomorrow (7/3) and Saturday (7/4). This Independence Day is a special one for the Law School as Professor Michael Goldsmith's call for Major League Baseball …
Casemaker v. Fastcase
I've blogged before about alternatives to Lexis and Westlaw for legal research. Two alternatives, Casemaker and Fastcase, are provided as member benefits through many state and local bar associations. The Utah Bar Association currently provides access to Casemaker. Other nearby state bar …
Natural Resources Law
The Law Library has recently acquired access to the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Digital Library. This database contains over 2,000 scholarly articles dealing with natural resources law that the Foundation has published since 1955. Articles are full-text searchable and available in …
Summer 2009
The Law Library is relatively quiet with most of you away at your summer externships and clerkships. As you well know, due to the economy Summer 2009 is quite different than summers past. I thought you might be interested in Some Words …
Treatises
Today a colleague and I had a lunch meeting with a group of attorneys in Salt Lake to discuss legal research. One of them kept pointing out that law students need to realize they don't have to recreate the wheel. Secondary sources …
Bar Study
With bar exam prep in full swing I thought I'd mention that the Law Library has several resources to help with your bar study. Last year we acquired Rigos Bar Review Series, which contains volumes on the MBE, MEE, MPRE, and the …
Judicial Clerkships
For those of you interested in pursuing a judicial clerkship (and with the economy the way it is that may be a lot of you) Above the Law is reporting that the Clerkship Notification Blog for the 2010-2011 clerkship season is up …
Westlaw Interface Update
Westlaw's main law school interface looks a little different than it used to. The heart of the change is that users can now conduct searches of multiple databases from the main research screen. This mirrors the functionality users have had on the …
Wikipedia
Last month over at the Volokh Conspiracy, guest blogger Ira Matetsky had an interesting series of posts about Wikipedia. Matetsky is a New York litigation attorney and a Wikipedia administrator and member of the in-house Arbitration Committee. In the posts he gives …
Federal Judicial Nominations
Yale Law Library has recently created a new database that tracks federal judicial nominations. The site includes information on federal judicial nominees from the 103rd Congress to the present. The Yale Law Library Reference Blog reports that the site offers The ability …
Prof. Andersen Jones on Media Subpoenas
Professor RonNell Andersen Jones has recently posted her newest article on media subpoenas to SSRN. Media Subpoenas: Impact, Perception, and Legal Protection in the Changing World of American Journalism is forthcoming in the Washington Law Review. Here's the abstract: Forty years ago, …
Advocacy Article
An article about the Rex E. Lee Advocacy Program has been posted on the Law School's website.
ASPIRE
LexisNexis has recently announced its new Associates Serving Public Interests Research Program that supports 2009 graduates pursuing public interest work. 2009 graduates can sign up for free access to LexisNexis if they fall into one of the following categories: Deferred fall associates …
Prof. EchoHawk Nomination Hearing
Last Thursday the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs held a hearing on the nomination of Professor Larry EchoHawk to be the Assistant Secretarty of Indian Affairs. A webcast of the hearing can be found here. You can also read the prepared …
Judge McConnell Stepping Down
The Blog of LegalTimes is reporting that Judge Michael McConnell is stepping down from his position on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit to become the director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School. (Court announcement here.) …
Case Law For Free
I've blogged before about free and low-cost legal research alternatives and their growing popularity in the current economic climate (see here). Robert J. Ambrogi has recently written Get Your Free Case Law for Law Technology News in which he provides information on …
Jail Outreach
The Daily Universe recently ran a story on BYU Law School's jail outreach program. It's good to see our students serving during their time here.