Annalee Hickman Pierson

Assistant Law Librarian, Head of Reference & Faculty Services

Annalee Hickman Pierson joined the law library faculty in 2016 after completing a J.D. 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.

Courses Taught

  • Introduction to Advocacy
  • Introduction to Legal Research and Writing

Education

  • M.L.I.S., San Jose State University
  • J.D., Brigham Young University
  • B.A., Brigham Young University

Articles and Book Chapters

  • Annalee Hickman Pierson, Journal Editorship Opportunities for Law Librarians, 27 AALL Spectrum, Sept./Oct. 2022, at 34. [SSRN]
  • Annalee Hickman Pierson, Working with Law Librariansin 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 Workin 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 Libr. J. 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 ResearchUtah Libraries News, April 2018, at 3. [SSRN]
  • 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 Reviewin 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 Ricain 2 Encyclopedia of Law and Religion: The Americas 103 (Gerhard Robbers & W. Cole Durham, Jr. eds., 2016).

Editorships

  • Board Member, Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute (2020–2024).
  • Faculty Adviser, BYU Journal of Public Law (2018–Present).
  • Assistant Editor, Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute (2017–2019).
  • Editorial Assistant, 3 Legal Information Review (2017–2018).
  • Peer Reviewer, 15 Legal Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD (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).

Presentations

  • Presenter, A More Inclusive Classroom: Considerations for the Legal Research Professor Teaching Neurodivergent Students, American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting Boston, Massachusetts, forthcoming July 16, 2023 (with Mari Cheney, Geraldine Kalim & Julia Pluta).
  • Moderator, Virtual Coffee Chat: Building and Strengthening Partnerships Between Libraries and Law Journals, American Association of Law Libraries Webinar, forthcoming May 2, 2023 (with Cassie Walker, Benjamin Carlson & Benjamin Keele).
  • Presenter, Strategic Planning by Academic Law Libraries to Serve DEI Needs, DEI and the Law Librarian Symposium, San Diego, California, March 6, 2023 (with Kelly Leong).
  • Presenter, Strategic Planning by Academic Law Libraries to Serve DEI Needs, DEI and the Law Librarian Symposium January Workshop (Virtual), January 26, 2023 (with Kelly Leong).
  • Organizer and Presenter, Student Outreach Leading to Library Careers, Utah Academic Library Consortium: Annual Professional Development Retreat, Provo, Utah, October 7, 2022 (with Michael Whitchurch & Brandon Patterson).
  • Organizer and Panelist, Working with Law Librarians, Scribes Webinar Series for Law Review Editors, September 11, 2022 (with Andrew W. Lang, Brooke J. Bowman, Nicole M. Downing & Benjamin J. Keele).
  • Moderator, Discussion Den: Parenting & Law Librarianship, American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, July 19, 2022.
  • Organizer, ALL-SIS Legal Research & Sourcebook Committee + RIPS-SIS Legal Research Committee Joint Roundtable: The Future of Legal Research, American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, July 18, 2022 (with Kelly Leong).
  • Presenter, The Library E-Book Wars and State Legislation, Boulder Conference on Legal Information: Scholarship and Teaching, Boulder, Colorado, July 15, 2022 (with Iantha Haight).
  • Organizer & Speaker, So, You Wanna Be an Editor?, PEGA-SIS’s Live Interview Series, American Association of Law Libraries Webinar, May 23, 2022 (with Sabrina A. Davis, Alex Zhang & Lacy Rakestraw).
  • Presenter, The Library E-Book Wars and State Legislation, Utah Library Association Annual Conference, Layton, Utah, May 20, 2022 (with Iantha Haight).
  • Presenter, Reflective Teaching, Teaching the Teachers Conference, Portland, Oregon, May 12, 2022 (with Shawn Nevers).
  • Moderator, Virtual Coffee Chat: Parenting During the Pandemic, American Association of Law Libraries Webinar, March 8, 2022 (with Mari Cheney & Clare Willis).
  • Presenter, The Free Musketeers: Free and Low-Cost Legal Resources, Legal Writing Institute One-Day Workshop, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 10, 2021.
  • Presenter, The Free Musketeers: Free and Low-Cost Legal Resources, Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) Biennial Conference (Virtual), June 16, 2021.
  • Presenter, Love Your ILL: Remotely Connecting Patrons to Resources Using Synergies Between ILL and Reference, Utah Library Association Annual Conference (Virtual), May 21, 2021 (Melanie Coleman & Iantha Haight).
  • Presenter, The Free Musketeers: Free and Low-Cost Legal Resources, Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference, Tucson, Arizona, March 13, 2020 (canceled because of COVID-19).
  • Presenter, Harmonic Progression: Utilizing Self-Assessment Techniques to Improve Teaching and Learning, 4th Annual Teaching for Learning Conference, Provo, Utah, March 5, 2020 (with Iantha Haight).
  • Co-Planner, Just Write It: Embracing Your Inner Author, American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting, July 16, 2019 (with Heather Joy, Alyson Drake, Jamie Baker, Cynthia Brown, and Stephen Parks).
  • Presenter, The Information Needs and Information-Seeking Behaviors of Law Professors, Mini-Boulder Conference on Legal Information: Scholarship and Teaching, Washington, D.C., July 13, 2019.
  • Presenter, Improving Your Teaching, Teaching the Teachers Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, May 31, 2019 (with Shawn Nevers).
  • Presenter, The Information Needs and Information-Seeking Behaviors of Law Professors, Utah Legal Research Instruction Best Practices Workshop, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 21, 2019.
  • Presenter, A Time to Help: Painlessly Assisting Patrons with Legal Questions at the Reference Desk, Utah Library Association Conference, Sandy, Utah, May 16–17, 2019 (with Iantha Haight).
  • Dialogue Leader, Making Research Connections, Utah Academic Library Consortium: Annual Professional Development Retreat, Provo, Utah, October 12, 2018.
  • Panelist, Virtual Communication Tools and Techniques, Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives: Annual Spring Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 14, 2018.
  • Presenter, Two Examples of Cross-Institutional Collaboration: Publishing and Pedagogical Workshopping, Utah Academic Library Consortium: 2017 Professional Development Retreat, Ogden, Utah, October 6, 2017 (with Felicity Murphy).
  • Presenter, The Reference Assistant, AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Awards: The Librarian as Author, AALL Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, July 17, 2017 (with Felicity Murphy).
  • Presenter, The Reference Assistant, The Ninth Annual Boulder Conference on Legal Information: Scholarship and Teaching, Austin, Texas, July 13–15, 2017 (with Felicity Murphy). (The Boulder Conference is the premier papers workshop on topics related to legal information. Approximately 15 people are invited to present annually, drawn from a competitive call for papers).
  • Presenter, The Reference Assistant, BYU Law Library Faculty Works-in-Progress Series, Provo, Utah, February 27, 2017.
  • Presenter, The Reference Assistant, S.J. Quinney College of Law’s Library Faculty Works-in-Progress Series, Salt Lake City, Utah, February 24, 2017 (with Felicity Murphy).