The Law Library has recently subscribed to Westlaw China, Westlaw’s online legal database of Chinese law. Westlaw China contains comprehensive laws, regulations, and cases, as well as selected model contracts and legal journals. Westlaw China also offers subject-based searching through Case Headnotes, which are compiled by West editors. The database contains both English and Chinese [...]
A few weeks ago I wrote about one of my favorite government websites – regulations.gov. Another one of my favorites also has to do with regulations – federalregister.gov. This government website contains an unofficial version of the daily Federal Register, but it’s so useful that I think it’s a great place to research in the [...]
As students head out to work this summer we see fewer and fewer around the library. But, that doesn’t mean we’re not busy helping with research. In fact, as students start getting research assignments from their firms or other employers we start getting a lot of phone calls, emails and chats asking for help. We’re [...]
A few weeks back I saw a Deseret News article that caught my eye for a couple of reasons. First, I’m a parent and the article reported on a request for comments by the FCC to relax its current broadcast television decency standards. Second, I had just finished teaching a few classes on administrative law [...]
HeinOnline is a great place to go for historical legal materials. Hein has recently added to its impressive collection by making available State Statutes: A Historical Archive. This library has superseded statutes for all 50 states, some going back to 1717. Utah’s collection goes back to territorial times starting with 1855 and continues until 1951. [...]
As we announced earlier this school year, Westlaw will be removing its printers this summer. We’re still figuring out an exact date, but it will be around June 30. We wanted to give you a heads up now so that you can plan for the next few months while we still have the printers and [...]
The last legal research classes of the semester will be held today. While that’s likely welcome news for many, it means that the next research you’ll do is for your jobs and externships this summer. Here is some information on the access you’ll have to the major legal databases. Lexis Advance – Lexis recently announced that [...]
Since it came out a few years back, Google Scholar Legal Documents has been a welcome addition to legal research (especially as a free resource). One attorney who was in the library the other day told me he uses it frequently and I’ve heard the same from many lawyers. When I wrote about Google Scholar [...]
As we get closer to summer, it’s time to start thinking about the jobs/externships you’ll be doing once school is out. One thing you’re guaranteed to be doing is legal research. I recently blogged about Lexis’s decision to make Lexis Advance available to students without restriction this summer. Another legal research system that is available [...]
BYU Law was pleased to host Judge Scott Matheson, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit yesterday as its Jurist in Residence. His noon address gave us some insight into his work on the 10th Circuit and I wanted to follow up on some of the things he mentioned as [...]