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- Law Student Access to Databases Over the Summer and After GraduationThe 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 »
- The Reference Assistant Team for Winter 2026
Say hello to the Reference Assistant Team for the Winter 2026 Semester! 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 along side the full-time law library faculty members who offer reference help. Please meet: Matt… Read more » - What GenAI Revealed About BYU Law’s Foreign & International Collection
This year, I took a closer look at the BYU Law Library’s Foreign, Comparative, and International Law (FCIL) collection to better understand its shape—where it’s strongest and where it could grow.re it could grow. A quick look at the heat map makes the pattern easy to spot. Our strongest coverage clusters around Europe and “Global/General”… Read more » - Winter Seminar Series: Researching War Crimes, Genocide, & Crimes Against Humanity
Don’t miss the Winter International Criminal Law Research Seminar Series! These sessions are designed to give you hands-on experience with the research tools used by international courts, tribunals, and practitioners working in global justice! Seminar Two: Researching War Crimes, Genocide & Crimes Against Humanity. This session focuses on researching substantive international crimes across tribunals and… Read more » - Winter International Criminal Law Research Seminar Series
Don’t miss session one of the Winter International Criminal Law Research Seminar Series! These sessions are designed to give you hands-on experience with the research tools used by international courts, tribunals, and practitioners working in global justice. Seminar One: Researching the International Criminal CourtThis session will dive into how to research the International Criminal Court,… Read more » - Changes to Bluebook in the New 22nd Edition
Last summer, the latest edition of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation was published. As the most recent edition, it now governs how you should structure you citations in legal memos, briefs, and papers. The law library has several copies available in either the reserve room or at the reference desk if you would… Read more »
