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 This library has superseded statutes for all 50 states, some going back to 1717.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. [...]
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 [...]
The Law Library recently added a new HeinOnline library – Congress and the Courts. This library provides access to legislative materials dealing with the composition and structure of Article III courts. If you’re doing any kind of research regarding federal courts, from their creation to the growing need for federal judgeships, this is the place [...]
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 [...]
The Law Library has recently acquired access to the State Attorney General Reports & Opinions database on HeinOnline. This database has the AG reports and opinions for all 50 states as well as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands back to the early 1980s and Hein is working on digitizing all available state AG reports [...]
HeinOnline is one of the most popular databases we offer–and rightfully so. Its vast collection of pdf legal materials creates an incredible tool for researchers (especially those of you doing source pulls). While most of our users pull documents from HeinOnline regularly, it is often underutilized as a search tool. While the searching doesn’t mirror [...]
The Utah Legislature is currently in session. Bills are being introduced, discussed, debated, amended, and some will ultimately be passed, signed by the Governor and become law. Once they become law they will be known as session laws and will be compiled together with other laws from the session in the “Laws of Utah.” These [...]
With one of its professors, Larry EchoHawk, serving in the Obama administration as Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, BYU Law School has a unique connection to American Indian Law. To support research and scholarship in this area, the Law Library has recently purchased access to HeinOnline’s American Indian Law Collection. This collection includes over 800 [...]
Recently my wife and I watched “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers.” It was an interesting documentary about Ellsberg and his path from a Pentagon insider to his decision to leak the classified Pentagon Papers, which contained controversial information about the Vietnam War. Shortly after watching the documentary I [...]
Students and faculty at BYU Law have a number of international connections. Because of that, interest in foreign law is quite high. One resource you’ll want to know about if you need secondary literature from outside of the United States is the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals. IFLP is a subject index to over 500 [...]