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This is an Interactive Book The online Lawbooks version offers embedded interactive questions to help students understand and apply the material as they learn it. This casebook is also available as a PDF and in print. The PDF version includes direct links to the interactive questions on the Lawbooks website. Description This is written as a guide for first-generation students who ar...
This is the Second Edition of A Treatise of Wyoming Workers Compensation Law, whichseeks both to introduce Wyoming workers compensation students to the law of their own jurisdiction, and to provide a continuing resource to those same students as they embark on workers compensation legal practice after graduation. In this way, the text fills a gap in the literature by serving as a con...
American Contract Law for a Global Age by Franklin G. Snyder and Mark Edwin Burge of Texas A&M University School of Law is a casebook designed primarily for the first-year Contracts course as it is taught in American law schools, but is configured so as to be usable either as a primary text or a supplement in any upper-level U.S. or foreign class that seeks to introduce American cont...
This is the Fifth Edition of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, a Casebook Designed to Train Lawyers for the Practice of Bankruptcy Law. It is designed for a one-semester course in debtor/creditor law and bankruptcy. The book deals with both creditor remedies and debtor protections, starting with state law collection remedies, exemptions, and the important special protections for secured c...
This revised edition of a basic income tax text is for the 2023-2024 academic year. This edition incorporates the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and highlights of congressional responses to COVID. It is intended to be a readable text, suitable for a three-hour course for a class comprised of law students with widely different backgrounds. The text integrates several of the CALI drills...
This novel is presented as part of eLangdell Press' Law and Literature Collection. It was selected based on a review of syllabi in this discipline. "The law and literature movement focuses on the interdisciplinary connection between law and literature. This field has roots in two major developments in the intellectual history of lawfirst, the growing doubt about whether law in isolat...
The purpose of bioethics is to put forth ethically acceptable solutions to the problems posed by modern medicine. The actions of healthcare providers are governed by the four principles of bioethics: autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice. The principles of bioethics are directly connected to legal mandates. This book is designed to be used to teach a 2 or 3 credit biome...
This novel is presented as part of eLangdell Press' Law and Literature Collection. It was selected based on a review of syllabi in this discipline. "The law and literature movement focuses on the interdisciplinary connection between law and literature. This field has roots in two major developments in the intellectual history of lawfirst, the growing doubt about whether law in isolat...
This chapter covers the Civil Procedure topic of Pleading: The Plaintiffs Complaint. The chapter takes approximately four class periods to cover in detail. The student is exposed to cases, presented with questions that are designed to both guide class discussion and to help the student focus his reading of the materials, pleadings from cases, and the applicable Federal Rules of Civil...
The sixth edition, first published as an ebook, and this seventh edition carry forward the philosophy and structure of the earlier editions. This book is not a comprehensive treatise on the subject of civil procedure, yet it provides a mixture of expository text, cases, and self-testing questions in nearly all of the major areas of the subject. In order to maximize accessibility, fle...
This is the second edition of Constitutional Rights, designed for a one-semester survey course on federal constitutional rights. In a time of significant doctrinal fluidity, the casebook aims to provide students with historical and conceptual tools to critically evaluate how and why the Supreme Court has shaped the landscape of rights jurisprudence. The casebook begins with a chronol...
This casebook, along with the accompanying volume of principal cases, introduces students to the law of contracts. It covers enough core common law concepts to offer a rich four-credit first-year course including a selection of UCC topics that will enrich students understanding of courts doctrinal choices. The first semester of law school is mostly about learning to speak a new legal...
This is Volume 1 in a three-volume series. Its former title is "Collaborative Teaching Materials for Contracts." The first semester of law school is mostly about learning to speak a new legal language (but emphatically not legalese), to formulate and evaluate legal arguments, to become comfortable with the distinctive style of legal analysis. We could teach these skills using almost...
This is Volume 2 in a three-volume series. Its former title is "Collaborative Teaching Materials for Contracts." The first semester of law school is mostly about learning to speak a new legal language (but emphatically not legalese), to formulate and evaluate legal arguments, to become comfortable with the distinctive style of legal analysis. We could teach these skills using almost...
This is Volume 3 in a three-volume series. Its former title is "Collaborative Teaching Materials for Contracts." The first semester of law school is mostly about learning to speak a new legal language (but emphatically not legalese), to formulate and evaluate legal arguments, to become comfortable with the distinctive style of legal analysis. We could teach these skills using almost...
This is an Interactive Casebook Theonline Lawbooks version offers embedded interactive questions to help students understand and apply the material as they learn it. This casebook is also available as a PDF and in print. The PDF version includes direct links to the interactive questions on the Lawbooks website. Description Copyright Law: Cases and Materials is a casebook designed fo...
The 2023-2024 edition casebook is a basic corporate tax text. It is intended to be suitable for a three-hour law school course. The text is designed to be accessible to law students from widely different backgrounds. However, the material assumes that students already have taken a course in basic income tax. The casebook includes links to numerous CALI tutorials allowing students to ...
This is an Interactive Casebook The online Lawbooks version offers embedded interactive questions to help students understand and apply the material as they learn it. This casebook is also available as a PDF and in print. The PDF version includes direct links to the interactive questions on the Lawbooks website. Description This is the Second Edition of Criminal Law: An Integrated ...
This Casebook is designed for the investigations criminal procedure class commonly taught at American law schools. It focuses on the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Fourth Amendment topics include definitions of search and seizure, probable cause, warrants, exceptions to the warrant requirement (e.g., plain view, consent, automobiles), st...
Distance Learning in Legal Education: Design, Delivery and Recommended Practices
By Working Group on Distance Learning in Legal Education
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This paper was written as a collaborative project by the Working Group on Distance Education in Legal Education. Contributors included law faculty, administrators, instructional designers, and law school librarians. The materials are intended to provide law schools and interested parties with a summary of distance learning opportunities, tools, and considerations. The paper presents ...
The Best Evidence Rule, contained in Article X of the Federal Rules of Evidence (Rules 1001-1008) and state counterparts, is a Rule that requires a party seeking to prove the contents of a writing, recording, or photograph to produce the original (or a duplicate) or account for its nonproduction. Through a series of cases and hypotheticals drawn from actual cases, this chapter gives ...
This material is about Federal Rule of Evidence 609: Impeachment by Evidence of Criminal Conviction. The goal of the party in impeaching a witness is to use the witnesss prior conviction(s) to prove that the witness has a propensity to be deceitful and that the witness is likely acting in conformity with that propensity by lying on the witness stand and/or when making a prior stateme...
The anti-jury impeachment rule, contained in Federal Rule of Evidence 606(b) and state counterparts, is a rule preventing the admission of jury testimony or statements in connection with an inquiry into the validity of the verdict, subject to certain exceptions. Through a series of cases and hypotheticals drawn from actual cases, this chapter gives readers a roadmap for how to addres...
This text is designed for use in a Evidence course as a stand-alone chapter. Specifically, this material covers FRE 410. Federal Rule of Evidence 410 was an attempt to codify common law precedent finding that withdrawn guilty pleas, pleas of nolo contendere, and offers to plead guilty and nolo contendere were inadmissible against an accused. 12,900 Words, 38 Pages in PDF Published 20...
This chapter on Propensity Character Evidence under Rule 404 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, is part of a continuing series of chapters written by the author exploring topics in evidence. The chapter is intended for law students and faculty to use in their Evidence course. 8,800 Words, 31 Pages in PDF Published 2013
The Rape Shield Rule, contained in Federal Rule of Evidence 412 and state counterparts is a Rule preventing the admission of evidence concerning the sexual predisposition and behavior of an alleged victim of sexual misconduct, subject to certain exceptions. Through a series of cases and hypotheticals drawn from actual cases, this chapter gives readers a roadmap for how to address any...
This Casebook (Second Edition, December 2019) is intended to be used in an upper-division course covering the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Its 14 chapters are substantially the same length, with the exception of Chapter One, the introduction, and Chapters Eleven and Twelve which in combination are the usual length. It is intended for 13 or 14 week semester that ...
This electronic publication was conceived in the summer of 1992. A small band of Cornell Law students, charged with identifying subjects on which computer-based materials would be particularly helpful, placed citation at the top of the list. With their assistance I prepared the first edition of Introduction to Basic Legal Citation. It was released on diskette that fall, one of the fi...
Judicial Ethics and Conduct provides materials that can be used in conjunction with a stand-alone one or two unit course on judicial ethics, or can be used in whole or in part to provide the basis for a sub-unit on judicial ethics within a standard course on legal ethics or lawyer professional responsibility. A heavy emphasis is placed upon the American Bar Associations Model Code of...
This text explores the laws governing the use of land. Sometimes narrowly focused, often intensely local, land use regulation may give the impression of a highly specialized field with small stakes. The text is divided into three parts: (1) First, we will survey the ordinary, local administrative scheme of land use regulation. The cases in this section are intended to establish what ...
The purpose of this casebook is to train law students to think and act like probate attorneys. This book is meant to be used in conjunction with the author's book on the law of trusts. This book's focus is problem-solving and legal application; the book includes numerous problems, so law students can learn to apply the law they learn from reading the cases. It also contains collabora...
The first year of law school is, for many people, one of the most significant transitions of their adult life. Law school demands a lot as it helps you make the transition from your prior identity as student (or as some other occupational role) to your new identity as an attorney. To meet the demands of law school, it is often helpful to have the big picture before you begin a sense ...
Legal Argumentation: Reasoning & Writing About the Law is suitable for a two- or three-semester introduction to legal analysis, reasoning, research, and writing. It covers theories underlying legal reasoning and analysis, contexts in which reasoning and analysis occur, and many common textual and oral genres, such as memos, briefs, letters, emails, contracts, and oral communication. ...
This is an Interactive Book The online Lawbooks version offers embedded interactive questions to help students understand and apply the material as they learn it. This book is also available as a PDF, in Word, and in print. The PDF and Word versions include direct links to the interactive questions on the Lawbooks website. Description This handbook is for upper-level students enroll...
Liberty, Equality, and Due Process: Cases, Controversies, and Contexts in Constitutional Law
By Ruthann Robson
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This is an Interactive Casebook The online Lawbooks version offers embedded interactive questions to help students understand and apply the material as they learn it. This casebook is also available as a PDF and in print. The PDF version includes direct links to the interactive questions on the Lawbooks website. Description This Casebook is intended to be used in a course which conc...
A coming-of-age novel that parodies Gothic novels of the time, and a servicable test book.
This book is designed to provide guidance to law students as they prepare to embark upon bar study. It covers topics such as how to make a study plan, strategies for successful bar study, tips for attacking each portion of the exam, taking care of your mental health, and preparing your loved ones for bar study. The book also provides weekly tips for use during the bar study period, a...
This is Volume 1 of a two volume set written for Property Law. From the Preface: Property, as a vaguely defined collection of contract, tort, and criminal cases, does not take on the natural structure of a substantive area of the law through the systematic study of duty, breach, causation, defenses, and damages. Instead this textbook and most Property courses survey various topics in...
This is Volume 2 of a two volume set written for Property Law. From the Preface to Volume 1: Property, as a vaguely defined collection of contract, tort, and criminal cases, does not take on the natural structure of a substantive area of the law through the systematic study of duty, breach, causation, defenses, and damages. Instead this textbook and most Property courses survey vari...
Sales and Leases is a coursebook for a 3-credit course in personal property sales and leases the subject matter of UCC Articles 2 and 2A. This is the Second Edition. Adjustments could be made for other credit allocations and chapters can be used on a stand-alone basis. The course is designed so that students both review the rules and principles they studied in their first-year course...
This Chapter will address the current protections that are available to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals who allege they have been victims of employment discrimination. The Chapters primary focus will be on federal statutory law, particularly Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Although the focus here is on federal law, Appendix I to this Chapter lists...
At its most basic definition the practice of law comprises conducting research to find relevant rules of law and then applying those rules to the specific set of circumstances faced by a client. However, in American law, the legal rules to be applied derive from myriad sources, complicating the process and making legal research different from other sorts of research. This text introd...
Unlike traditional casebooks or coursebooks, a course source includes resources to train students in all three apprenticeships identified by the Carnegie Foundation in its influential report on legal education, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law. To address the knowledge apprenticeship, the Statutory Law Course Source includes all of the traditional elements of ...
This work is presented as part of eLangdell Press' Law and Literature Collection. It was selected based on a review of syllabi in this discipline. "The law and literature movement focuses on the interdisciplinary connection between law and literature. This field has roots in two major developments in the intellectual history of lawfirst, the growing doubt about whether law in isolati...
This chapters objective is to raise interesting tax ethics issues in practical contexts. There are 42 notes and questions to prompt and guide discussions, and primary source materials to inform the discussions (e.g., cases, IRC provisions, and Circular 230 excerpts). 17,067 Words, 63 Pages in PDF Published 2015 A Teacher's Manual is available to faculty. Please login with your CALI c...
"The Federalist, commonly referred to as the Federalist Papers, is a series of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison between October 1787 and May 1788. The essays were published anonymously, under the pen name "Publius," in various New York state newspapers of the time. "The Federalist Papers were written and published to urge New Yorkers to ratify the ...
This is a collection of documents that have formed the foundation of the American legal system. Magna Carta (1215) Mayflower Compact (1620) The Declaration of Independence (1776) The Articles of Confederation (1777) The Treaty of Paris (1783) The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 The Consitution of the United States (1787) The Bill of Rights (1791) The translations and text of these docu...
The use of testamentary trusts is becoming an important part of estate planning. As a result, students who want to make a living as probate attorneys will need to know how trusts fit into estate planning. In addition, bar examiners realize that it is important for students to have a basic knowledge of trust law. That realization will result in bar examination questions that test that...
This work is presented as part of eLangdell Press' Law and Literature Collection. It was selected based on a review of syllabi in this discipline. "The law and literature movement focuses on the interdisciplinary connection between law and literature. This field has roots in two major developments in the intellectual history of lawfirst, the growing doubt about whether law in isolati...
This work is presented as part of eLangdell Press' Law and Literature Collection. It was selected based on a review of syllabi in this discipline. "The law and literature movement focuses on the interdisciplinary connection between law and literature. This field has roots in two major developments in the intellectual history of lawfirst, the growing doubt about whether law in isolati...
This book, revised as the Fourth Edition June 2021, is designed to teach contract doctrine beginning with the most fundamental concepts and building on these until the structure of contract doctrine as coherent and cohesive regulation appears. The order of presentation is, in fact, the order in which contract doctrine developed historically, but it is also, in general, the order in w...
This book is a companion volume to Volume I, "The Story of Contract Law: Formation." Volume I introduces students to law study and teaches basic doctrines of contract formation along with formation defenses. This book, Volume II, The Story of Contract Law: Implementing the Bargain, covers the rest of basic contract doctrine, namely, laws that 1) determine the content of the bargain (...
This work is presented as part of eLangdell Press' Law and Literature Collection. It was selected based on a review of syllabi in this discipline. "The law and literature movement focuses on the interdisciplinary connection between law and literature. This field has roots in two major developments in the intellectual history of lawfirst, the growing doubt about whether law in isolati...
This is an Interactive Casebook The online Lawbooks version offers embedded interactive questions to help students understand and apply the material as they learn it. This casebook is also available as a PDF, in Word, and in print. The PDF and Word versions include direct links to the interactive questions on the Lawbooks website. Description Tort Law: A 21st-Century Approach (TL21C)...
Volume One of this two-volume set introduces the law of torts and covers negligence and liability in the health-care context. Plain-spoken and convivial, this casebook makes a deliberate effort to explain the law, rather than to provide a mere compilation of readings and questions. Simple concepts are presented simply. Complex concepts are broken down and accompanied by examples and ...
Volume Two of this two-volume set covers intentional torts, strict liability, products liability, health and safety regulation, remedies, immunities, wrongful death, constitutional torts, transactional torts, defamation, and privacy torts. Plain-spoken and convivial, this casebook makes a deliberate effort to explain the law, rather than to provide a mere compilation of readings and ...
This is the Sixth Edition of Torts: Cases, Principles, and Institutions, a casebook for a one-semester torts course that carves out a distinctive niche in the field by focusing on the institutions and sociology of American tort law. The book retains many of the familiar features of the traditional casebook, including many of the classic cases. Like the best casebooks, it seeks to sur...
This is the tenth edition of this textbook, updated through December 15, 2022 for use beginning January 2023. In addition to incorporating new law and all inflation adjustments, this edition builds on updates made for the ninth edition and incorporates new charts pertaining to economic and tax data, including December 2019 CBO charts showing that income inequality between 2015 and 2...
This is the revised, fifth edition of The Wetlands Law Course Source. It can be used as the primary text for a two credit seminar or as a supplemental text to cover wetlands material in an environmental law, natural resources law, or water law course. In addition, the administrative law chapter can be used as a supplement in a range of administrative law-related courses, such as envi...