faculty research

The Law Library will be offering a training for all summer research assistants on Friday, April 28 from 1-2pm in room 267. If you're working for a professor this summer, come join us …

The Washington & Lee Law Library has recently updated its Law Journal Rankings to include data from 2013.  The rankings take into account citations to journals during the last eight years, with the …

Professor Fred Gedicks' latest article, Incorporation of the Establishment Clause Against the States: A Logical, Textual, and Historical Account, was recently published in the Indiana Law Journal.  For more of Professor Gedicks' articles, take …

A number of BYU Law faculty have posted new articles to SSRN in the last few months.  It's been a busy spring, so I haven't gotten around to writing about them yet.  Here's …

Finals are over.  The Write-on is done.  Now it's time for summer jobs and externships to begin.  Summertime is often where students realize how important legal research is to the practice of law. …

Professor Gordon Smith has recently added his newest paper, Law and Entrepreneurial Opportunities, to SSRN.  This article was co-authored with Darian Ibrahim from the University of Wisconsin Law School and will appear in …

Professor Shima Baradaran has recently posted her newest article, Does International Law Matter?, to SSRN.  The article, which is co-authored by Michael Findley, Daniel Nielson, and J.C. Sharman, will be published in the …

The Washington & Lee Law Library has recently updated its Law Journal Rankings to include data from 2012.  The rankings take into account citations to journals during the last eight years, with the …

When you think about legal research, it's likely things like cases, statutes, and regulations come to mind.  That's good because that's what we focus on in a basic legal research course in law …

Professor Aaron Nielson, our newest professor, has recently published an op-ed in the National Law Journal discussing the D.C. Circuit's recent announcement that they will no longer follow the Federal Judges Law Clerk …

Professor Cheryl Preston and co-author Brandon Crowther have posted their latest article, Minor Restrictions: Adolescence Across Legal Disciplines, the Infancy Doctrine, and the Restatement (Third) of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment, on SSRN.  The …

Professor Shima Baradaran's study, Predicting Violence, was recently cited in a Salt Lake Tribune article about Utah's pretrial jail release program.  Predicting Violence was published in the Texas Law Review earlier this year.

Professor Eric Jensen has recently posted his newest paper, Cyber Attacks: Proportionality and Precautions in Attack, to SSRN.  It will be published in the U.S. Naval War College's International Law Studies Series.

Professor Cheryl Preston and co-author Eli McCann have recently posted their newest article, Lewellyn Slept Here: A Short History of Sticky Contracts and Feudalism, to SSRN.  The article has been accepted for publication …

Professor Fred Gedicks has recently posted two of his newest papers to SSRN.  The first, Ironies of Hosanna-Tabor, will be published in the Mercer Law Review and analyzes the recent Supreme Court case …

Professors Lisa Grow Sun and RonNell Andersen Jones have recently posted their newest article, Disaggregating Disasters, to SSRN.  Their article has been accepted for publication in the UCLA Law Review.  More articles from …

BYU Law Professor Michael Goldsmith always taught his students to be "can do" lawyers.  He certainly was one himself.  Even when he was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, Goldsmith worked relentlessly to raise …