Six years ago today, the Law School hosted a conference on Latter-day Saint Perspectives on Law. The BYU Law Review published modified versions of the presentations given at the conference, along with several responses. You may be interested in some of the …
Over the past few days I have received several questions regarding CALI (The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction). For those who have wondered, CALI is a resource that can be used to supplement your course study. The best way I have found …
Sister Inis Egan Hunter, wife of President Howard W. Hunter passed away on Sunday at age 93. Read the Deseret Morning News article here. The Hunter family holds a special place with us as the law library is named after President Hunter, …
October means the Major League Baseball playoffs have finally arrived. As one of a dying breed of baseball fans, I eagerly await this time of year. To me there's nothing quite like the World Series, even when my beloved San Francisco Giants …
The International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University is hosting the Fourteenth Annual International Law and Relgion Symposium here at the Law School today and tomorrow. This year's Symposium is entitled "Religion, Indentity and Stability: Legal Challenges of …
On Sunday, Oct. 7 at 12:30 pm BYU cable television will show The Legacy of J. Reuben Clark. This documentary details the life of our law school's namesake and was produced by the law school with Dean Kevin Worthen as executive producer, …
Today kicks off the 2007-08 term of the United States Supreme Court. Here are some blog entries to get you ready: "The First Monday in October" - Wall Street Journal Law Blog "2007-2008 Supreme Court Term Roundup" - Law Librarian Blog "Online …
The Fall 2007 issue of the Clark Memorandum has an article by Dean Worthen on religiously affiliated law schools that may be of interest to you. It also contains Judge Deanell Reece Tacha's 2007 convocation address among other thought provoking articles and …
A few weeks back I wrote about using subject searching as an electronic research technique. I return to the subject to explore some of the subject searching possibilities in LexisNexis. In looking at a case in LexisNexis you will have noticed LexisNexis …
Professor David Dominguez received UVSC's Excellence in Ethics Award yesterday for his work in the community. Read about it in this article from the Deseret Morning News. (Thanks to Professor Wardle for the link.)
Everyone knows about the Library of Congress, but did you know there is a Law Library of Congress? There is, and they have just redisigned their website. Here is some information from an email I received detailing the new website: "The web …
Today, Sept. 17, is Constitution Day - a great day to reread the Constitution. Additionally, you may want to check out some of the resources that the National Archives has on the Constitution. You may also be interested in what some of …
As a first year, one of the key research tools you learned was the West Key Number system and the Digests. You learned that West editors examined every case and broke those cases down into specific topics and subtopics so that you …
Contrary to popular belief, keyword searching isn't the only way to search for legal resources on the web. Google and other search engines have programmed us to keyword search for everything and for the most part we do. Don't get me wrong, …
A couple months back I ran across an article published in the Utah Bar Journal entitled "The Strength is in the Research." As a law librarian it naturally caught my eye. While most articles about legal research are written by fellow law …
If you ever have a minute to spare (I know that's unlikely, but just in case), you might want to check out The Oyez Project. This website contains an array of information and media regarding the United States Supreme Court. Supreme Court …
If you need to brush up on your legal research skills the library can help. You may want to check out the Legal Research Guides that the library has put together and that are found in the "For Law Students" section of …
I recently created a list showing where to find PDFs of legal sources for a presentation I did for JPL and I thought I'd share it with anyone who wants to use it. (As a former source puller myself I know help …
