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 [...]
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 [...]
Every year a number of our students head out to do externships in foreign countries. This is a great opportunity to learn about a different legal system and to get the chance to live and work overseas. One question I often get asked by those of you doing these types of externships is “How do [...]
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 [...]
If you’re looking for statistics from the United States the Statistical Abstract has always been a great place to go. Since 1878 the Statistical Abstract was published annually by the government and contained a variety of social, political, and economic data. If you needed to find out the number of marriages, or unemployment by occupation, [...]
The Law Library provides its students with a number of resources to help with your job search. Many of these resources are legal directories that provide contact information for legal employers, particularly courts and other governmental bodies. We have recently updated our Legal Directories Subject Guide to reflect the latest print and electronic directories you [...]
About this time of year we begin getting requests for help developing topics for papers. While we have several different resources that can be helpful, one that I like to show first is BNA. BNA (now Bloomberg BNA) produces a number of daily and weekly reports on cutting edge topics in a variety of areas [...]
Nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States are always a hot topic – especially in law school. With President Obama’s reelection and the recent inauguration, the topic of potential SCOTUS picks is always lurking. While we can’t predict the future, we can give you some help if you’re looking historically at Supreme Court [...]
Do you need to brush up on torts or property? How about business associations or tax? CALI might be just the resource you need to get up to speed. The Law Library’s subscription to CALI, the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, provides BYU law students with access to nearly 1,000 internet-based lessons on different legal [...]
Article III of the Constitution begins “The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.” From the creation of inferior courts to dealing with decisions of the Courts as it affects their legislation, Congress [...]