Latest Library News
- Meet the Winter 2025 Reference Assistant TeamSay hello to BYU Law Library’s Reference Assistants! These great law students are happy to help you with any of your reference questions. They are hired and overseen by Professor Annalee Hickman Pierson, and they work alongside the law library faculty members who offer reference and scholarship services. Meet our Reference Assistant Team: Henry… Read more »
- New Resources for Foreign, Comparative, and International Law ResearchIt can be challenging to know how to begin legal research in a foreign or international jurisdiction. BYU Law Library’s new vLEX Vincent AI platform uses AI (generative and rules-based) trained on vLex’s global repository of statutes, case law, and secondary sources. Vincent AI can be used to access collections of legal materials from the… Read more »
- New U.S. Civil Rights DatabaseBYU Law Library has a new Civil Rights database, Trends & Policy: U.S. Civil Rights. This database is designed to be an easy-to-use tool that brings together different types of sources, including statutes, executive orders, hearings, and other primary sources along with news articles, data sets, and more, all browsable by topic and organized into… Read more »
- Become an Innovation Fellow!Position Overview The BYU Law Library is seeking to hire 1-2 students as Innovation Fellows. This role offers students a chance to participate in developing and refining the Library’s Legal Tech Initiative and to conduct research on legal technology topics. Students will be paid $20 per hour and may work up to ten hours per… Read more »
- Summer and Graduate Access to Lexis, Westlaw, and MoreThe end of the school year is here! That means it is time to share information about accessing library databases and other resources while school is out for summer. If you are a not graduating this April, most of your access database remains the same over the summer. But there are a few things you… Read more »
- Celebrate National Library Week With Us!We are celebrating national library week with fun giveaways from April 8 – April 11. Stop by the desks at the second or third floor library entrances to grab a treat! Monday: Smart Pop Day. Start your week off on a smart note. Swing by the Circulation Desk on either floor to grab a bag… Read more »