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Annalee Hickman Pierson

Associate Law Librarian, Head of Reference & Faculty Services

Annalee Hickman Pierson joined the law library faculty in 2016 after completing a JD at Brigham Young University. As Head of Reference and Faculty Services, Professor Hickman Pierson oversees the legal reference and faculty services departments in the BYU Law Library, provides faculty research assistance and support, and writes scholarship that focuses on legal reference services, faculty services, legal research instruction, legal education, and law librarianship. She also teaches Introduction to Legal Research and Writing and Introduction to Advocacy.

Education Year
J.D., Brigham Young University 2016
B.A., Brigham Young University 2013
M.L.I.S., San Jose State University 2021
Courses Taught Years Taught
Introduction to Advocacy
Introduction to Legal Research and Writing

Additional Information

Publications

Articles and Book Chapters 

  • Annalee Hickman Pierson, State Strategies for Fair E-Book Licensing: Lessons from the Library E-Book War, 116 Law Library Journal 219 (2024) (with Iantha Haight). [SSRN]
  • Annalee Hickman Pierson, How Law Librarians Can Best Support Neurodivergent Patrons, 28 AALL Spectrum, Mar./Apr. 2024, at 30 (with Mari Cheney, Geraldine Kalim & Julia Pluta) (winner of Green Bag’s Exemplary Legal Writing from 2024 Award). [SSRN]
  • Annalee Hickman Pierson, Journal Editorship Opportunities for Law Librarians, 27 AALL Spectrum, Sept./Oct. 2022, at 34. [SSRN]
  • Annalee Hickman Pierson, Working with Law Librarians, in The Scribes Manual for Law Review Editors 103 (Darby Dickerson & Brooke J. Bowman eds., Carolina Academic Press, 2022) (with Andrew W. Lang). [SSRN]
  • Annalee Hickman Pierson, Legal Research Doesn’t Have to Break the Bank: Free and Low-Cost Research Avenues, 35 Utah Bar Journal, July/Aug. 2022, at 46 (with Victoria Carlton). [SSRN]
  • Annalee Hickman, Reference Work, in Introduction to Law Librarianship (Cas Laskowski & Zanada Joyner eds., 2021) (with Janet Kearney & Kelly M. Leong) (winner of the 2021 American Association of Law Libraries Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award and winner of the 2021 Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries Book Award). [SSRN]
  • Annalee Hickman, Creating a More Diverse Workforce: How the AALL George A. Strait Minority Scholarship & Fellowship Program Is Supporting Future Minority Law Librarians, 25 AALL Spectrum, July/Aug. 2021, at 20 (with Shamika D. Dalton & Trina Holloway). [SSRN]
  • Annalee Hickman, How to Teach Algorithms to Legal Research Students, 28 Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research & Writing 73 (2020). [SSRN]
  • Annalee Hickman, Engaging Legal Research Students Through Supplemental Readings from the Last Decade, 26 Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research & Writing 67 (2018). [SSRN]
  • Annalee Hickman Moser, The Reference Assistant, 110 Law Library Journal 59 (2018) (with Felicity Murphy) (winning submission in the new member division of the 2017 AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Competition) (accepted submission to the Ninth Annual Boulder Conference on Legal Information). [SSRN]
  • Annalee Hickman Moser, All Librarians Can Help Patrons with Legal Research, Utah Libraries News, April 2018, at 3. [Link]
  • Annalee Hickman Moser, Go Ahead and Google. Then Do a Subject-Based Search, 46 Student Law., Mar.–Apr. 2018, at 8. [SSRN]
  • Annalee Hickman Moser, Have You Ever Considered Becoming a Law Librarian?, 46 Student Law., Nov.–Dec. 2017, at 4. [SSRN]
  • Annalee Hickman Moser, Book Review, in Keeping Up with New Legal Titles, 109 Law Libr. J. 482 (2017) (reviewing Digital Rights Management: The Librarian’s Guide (Catherine A. Lemmer & Carla P. Wale eds., 2016)). [SSRN]
  • Annalee Hickman Moser, We Believe in Being Honest: Dependency Exemptions for LDS Missionaries, 31 BYU J. Pub. L. 233 (2016) (second place winning submission of the 2016 John S. Welch Award for Outstanding Legal Writing).[SSRN]
  • Annalee Hickman Moser, Costa Rica, in 2 Encyclopedia of Law and Religion: The Americas 103 (Gerhard Robbers & W. Cole Durham, Jr. eds., 2016).

Editorships

  • Editor, Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School Research Paper Series (2016–Present)
  • Editorial Board Member, Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute (2020–2024).
  • Faculty Adviser, BYU Journal of Public Law (2018–2023).
  • Assistant Editor, Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute (2017–2019).
  • Peer Reviewer, 15 Legal Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD (2018).
  • Editorial Assistant, 3 Legal Information Review (2017–2018).
  • Deputy Editor, 51 The Year in Review: An Annual Survey of International Legal Developments and Publication of the ABA/Section of International Law (2016).