12 March 2019
Casetext with CARA AI: Keyword-free Legal Research
13 September 2018
SCOTUS Oral Arguments
In Professor Barclay's introduction of yesterday's Law Forum speaker, Professor Douglas Laycock, she mentioned his oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in Holt v. Hobbs. If you're interested, you can listen to …
20 October 2017
ModioLegal
This semester the Law Library is participating in a pilot program to provide access to ModioLegal for BYU Law Students and Faculty. With more and more information to consume these days, it can …
23 August 2017
Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Ed.
The 17th Edition of The Chicago Manual of Style has just been released and BYU Law students and faculty have access to the newest edition online. A link to the Chicago Manual of …
27 March 2015
ProQuest’s Executive Orders and Presidential Proclamations 1789-2014
The President of the United States uses Executive Orders to execute a wide variety of actions with regard to the internal operations and organization of the Federal Government as well as foreign and …
09 March 2015
Oxford’s U.S. Constitutional Law
United States Constitutional Law service is a comprehensive reference resource to help researchers understand the legal and political history of American constitutionalism. This collection contains an archive of both primary source materials and …
26 February 2015
Greenwire
The Law Library has recently acquired access to EnergyWire, ClimateWire, Environment & Energy Daily ( E&E Daily), GreenWire and E&E News PM for the BYU Law School community. Each of these sources provide …
26 February 2015
New database: AILALink
Immigration is one of the most significant hot button issues in the U.S. today as interested parties engage in heated debate regarding appropriate avenues of reform. The Law Library has recently acquired access …
25 November 2014
American Law Institute Library
The Restatement of Torts was a prominent part of one of the oral arguments when the Utah Supreme Court visited the Law School a few weeks ago. Restatements are influential secondary sources that …
13 November 2014
HeinOnline Alumni Access
Earlier this year the BYU Law Library entered into an agreement to provide BYU Law Alums with access to HeinOnline's law journal database. This database contains PDF versions of over 1,900 law reviews …
05 November 2014
World Treaty Library
The Law Library is pleased to announce the latest addition to our electronic collection, HeinOnline's World Treaty Library. This new library allows users to search across all the major treaties in the world …
17 September 2014
Happy Constitution Day!
September 17 is Constitution Day, a day we celebrate the signing of the Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787 in Philadelphia. As a researcher, I'm drawn to thinking about the history and the sources …
04 August 2014
New CALI Website
CALI ("The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction") has recently released a revamped version of its website (along with a whole new color scheme). CALI still offers its great interactive tutorials that are excellent …
13 June 2014
Tax Research
Researching tax law can be tough. We're lucky enough here to have a law librarian, Dennis Sears, who is a tax research expert. To help tax law researchers, Prof. Sears has created and …
10 June 2014
Low-Cost Legal Research
As school was coming to an end I blogged about student access to Westlaw/Lexis/Bloomberg for the summer. While the access to Lexis and Bloomberg is wide open, some of you may not have …
03 June 2014
Armed Conflicts Database
The Law Library has recently subscribed to the International Institute for Strategic Studies' Armed Conflicts Database. This database monitors current conflicts worldwide, "focusing on political, military and humanitarian trends in current conflicts, whether …
20 May 2014
Digital Collections
100,000 downloads. That was the milestone our digital repository hit last week. Pretty impressive if you ask us. The Howard W. Hunter Law Library Digital Collections, which debuted at the end of last …
01 April 2014