Research Support

Law faculty have 24-hour access to the collection with their campus ID card.

General Library Schedule

Library liaisons are assigned to each full-time law school faculty member. These liaisons act as intermediaries between the Law Library and the faculty. Liaisons meet with their assigned faculty regularly to determine individual library needs and research interests. They also ensure that faculty members are aware of library services and collections and seek suggestions regarding how library services can be improved. Library liaisons are available to assist faculty members with their research needs. They obtain library material for faculty members and arrange for other library services that are needed or requested.

Specific services might include:

• obtaining law review articles
• making interlibrary loan requests (or you can contact Melanie Coleman at colemanm@law.byu.edu)
• forwarding purchase requests for approval and ordering
• setting up automated current awareness accounts (such as SmartCILP, Lexis/Nexis alerts, Westlaw’s WestClip and SSRN/LSN subscriptions)
• creating coversheets for scholarly works to be posted on SSRN
• uploading scholarly works to SSRN on behalf of the faculty member
• presenting research classes on subjects taught by the faculty member
• working with faculty research assistants
• compiling citations to the faculty member’s scholarly works

Liaison Assignments

Curtis Anderson	Nick Hafen
Clark Asay	Shawn Nevers
Kif Augustine-Adams	Annalee Hickman Pierson
Shima Baradaran Baughman	Kory Staheli
Annika Boone Barkdull	Kristen Kellems
Kathryn Blair	Kristen Kellems
Catherine Bramble	Kory Staheli
Melanie Brown	Iantha Haight
Elizabeth Clark	Kristen Kellems
Will Clayton	Iantha Haight
Justin Collings	Kory Staheli
Elysa Dishman	Iantha Haight
Dayle Elieson	Nick Hafen
John Fee	Shawn Nevers
Cliff Fleming	Annalee Hickman Pierson
Fred Gedicks	Iantha Haight
Kristin Gerdy Kyle	Annalee Hickman Pierson
Brook Gotberg	Iantha Haight
Lisa Grow	Shawn Nevers
Sarah Hamilton-Jiang	Kory Staheli
Matthew Jennejohn	Nick Hafen
Eric Jensen	Kristen Kellems
Cree Jones	Kory Staheli
Tom Lee	David Armond
Tyler Lindley	Kristen Kellems
Jane Mitchell	Shawn Nevers
David Moore	Shawn Nevers
Carolina Núñez	Annalee Hickman Pierson
Stephanie Plamondon	Annalee Hickman Pierson
Bradley Rebeiro	Kory Staheli
Lutforahman Saeed	Kristen Kellems
Brett Scharffs	Kristen Kellems
Gladriel Shobe	Shawn Nevers
Jarrod Shobe	Shawn Nevers
Gordon Smith	David Armond
Michalyn Steele	Annalee Hickman Pierson
Dane Thorley	Nick Hafen
Lucy Williams	Annalee Hickman Pierson
Kevin Worthen	Annalee Hickman Pierson
Charity Bunson Wyatt	Nick Hafen

The Law Library employs law student reference assistants to assist law faculty with their research needs. These law students provide support for law faculty who either do not have enough ongoing work to justify hiring their own research assistants or need assistance beyond their own research assistants. The reference assistants are meant to complement, not replace, individual faculty research assistants. The reference assistants work primarily on research requests and, if there is time available, data projects that require the student research assistant have at least one year of law school. The law student reference assistants are supervised by Annalee Hickman Pierson. Faculty who need assistance are encouraged to contact their library liaison.

In addition to providing research support to law school faculty, the reference assistants also provide reference services to library users virtually and in-person at the Law Library. 

Data project support is a faculty service the Law Library provides to law faculty. The support is provided by data assistants (undergraduate BYU students), who collect data and/or enter data that does not require being a law student or having any legal knowledge or background. The data assistants also work on data projects supporting corpus linguistics. The data assistants are hired, trained, and managed by the Data Project Manager, Teresa Odam. Faculty requests for data project support may be made through library liaisons who will coordinate with the Data Project Manager to ensure the carrying out and completion of the requested data project.

The reference assistants will continue to provide support for data projects that require some legal knowledge or background learned through the first-year legal research and writing program in law school, though traditional research requests may receive higher priority. More information about what the reference assistants can do for law faculty can be found here.

The Law Library faculty are available to work with and train law faculty research assistants in the process of legal research and to suggest research strategies for particular research projects. Contact your library liaison for individual training for your research assistant(s) any time through the year. General summer RA training takes place shortly after Winter semester. Contact Shawn Nevers for more information. Law Professors are also welcome to send their RAs to class sessions of Advanced Legal Research, scheduled during Winter semester. For the syllabus or more information, contact Shawn Nevers at (801) 422-8784 or neverss@law.byu.edu.