Each year in conjunction with BYU Homecoming, the Brigham Young University Student Alumni Association sponsors the George H. Brimhall Memorial Essay Contest to honor a significant person in BYU history. This year, Rex E. Lee, former Dean of the Law School and …

Professor Cheryl Preston has been hard at work and has recently posted several new articles on SSRN. Click on the titles to read the abstracts and download the papers. ICANN Can: Contracts and Porn Sites - Choosing 'to Play Internet Ball in …

With the Bar Exam a little more than a month a way, Bar prep is in full swing. And if you're anything like I was, you're looking for any help you can get. Luckily, help is what the Law Library does. We …

J. Reuben Clark Law School Dean null has recently been appointed Advancement Vice President of BYU. (see the BYU news release here) Dean null will serve as interim dean for the Law School, with Professor null taking his place as associate dean …

One of the Law School's newest professors, RonNell Andersen Jones (here's her U. of A. bio), has recently posted her article "Avalanche or Undue Alarm? An Empirical Study of Subpoenas Received by the News Media" on SSRN. Here's the abstract: "For more …

Here's the law library's new book list for May 2008. Enjoy!

I've just returned from a family vacation and am trying to get back into the work routine. You know how that is. I'm glad to see that our new webpage is up and running. Thanks to Laurie Urquiaga for all the hard …

We're very pleased to roll out our new library website design. The new look and feel is an effort to align the law library website to the law school design mentioned in the previous post. Of course, different functions require some differences …

Today the Law School unveiled its revamped website. Underlying pages are still being migrated to the new look, but the process will be completed soon. (see news blurb here) You may want to check out this video clip of Dean Worthen's Introduction …

The Law School's own Professor David A. Thomas gave the University Devotional Address this morning in the de Jong Concert Hall. (news release here; rebroadcast schedule and, in the future, text, video, and audio files here) His remarks were entitled "A Law …

Earlier this year the Wall Street Journal Law Blog began a series of posts called "Advice from the Corner Office" to give practical advice to law students transitioning to law firms. (Previous posts are here, here, here, and here.) I especially liked …

A Suffolk University Law School Legal Practice Skills Program podcast series entitled Transitioning from One-L to Summer Legal Work may be of interest to those of you out working this summer. It currently contains nineteen podcasts by legal writing professors from across …

 The Law Library subscribes to several electronic resources (besides Westlaw and LexisNexis) that can be extremely helpful to you in your research. One of those resources is Indexmaster. Many legal treatises are still not available online in full-text and it's not always …

In honor of Memorial Day the Law Library will be closed on Monday, May 26, 2008. The White House Commission on Remembrance has organized a National Moment of Remembrance at 3 p.m. local time on Memorial Day to honor and remember those …

The Rex E. Lee Advocacy Program was ranked 22nd in the country this year by the U.S. News and World Report. (Thanks to Legal Writing Prof Blog for the list.) The program moved up 10 spots in the rankings from last year …

Those of you interested in landing a judicial clerkship may be interested in SoYouWantToBeALawClerk.com, a site that provides information, resources and advice on federal clerkships. (Source: Wall Street Journal Law Blog) The Law Library's Reference collection (directly behind the 2d floor Reference …

In an effort to give you access to BYU Law Library resources at all times from your computer, we are pleased to present current students and faculty with the new Law Library Toolbar (download here). With this new tool you can search …