Library News
- Summer Access: Lexis+, Bloomberg Law, Westlaw, and MoreIt feels like Narnia’s endless winter outside, but summer is almost here with its opportunities for externships, internships, summer jobs, and hopefully some outdoor fun! If you are doing research over the summer for a professor, a firm, or other organization, the good news is that most of your access to research databases through the […] Read more »
- HeinOnline Completes Indexing for All Utah Session Laws Back to 1851HeinOnline has long been a valuable source of historical legal information. Over the years, Hein has digitized state session laws and state statutes that extend to pre-statehood materials whenever possible. These historical materials can be found in the following locations in HeinOnline: The Sessions Law Library contains the text of laws as they were originally […] Read more »
- Casetext Launches New AI Legal Assistant Based on Same Technology as ChatGPTCasetext made a huge announcement yesterday–the release of “the first AI legal assistant” based on OpenAI’s natural language processing model. Click here to view the press release. The tool, named CoCounsel, is based on the same technology as the headline-grabbing ChatGPT. But unlike ChatGPT, CoCounsel is much better suited to legal work because it was […] Read more »
- Understanding How Congressional Bills Are NumberedWhen locating the original text of Congressional bills, it is important to understand how Congressional bills are numbered. Each bill is assigned a number in sequential order when it is introduced into Congress. The bill is given a prefix to indicate the chamber of Congress it was introduced in. Bills introduced in the House of […] Read more »
- Shortcuts for Creating 50-State SurveysA 50-State survey is a compilation of state laws on a narrow topic gathered for the purpose of comparison. Scholars use these surveys to analyze and understand the law. Corporations use them to make business decisions such as determining where to expand or shift their operations or to ensure they are in compliance with differing […] Read more »
- New Year, New Database: Jus Mundi for International ArbitrationWe are excited to announce the addition of a new database to our collections: Jus Mundi for international arbitration research. Jus Mundi has an extensive collection of cases for investment arbitration, commercial arbitration, international trade, public international law, and law of the sea through its partnerships with the International Chamber of Commerce, International Court of […] Read more »