Resources for First Year Law Students

A favorite among successful students, and often recommended by professors, Examples & Explanations series gives you extremely clear introductions to concepts followed by realistic examples that mirror those presented in the classroom. Use at the beginning and midway through the semester to deepen your understanding through clear explanations, corresponding fact patterns, and analysis. Then use to study for finals by reviewing the hypotheticals as well as the structure and reasoning behind the accompanying analysis.

The proven Glannon Guide is a user-friendly study aid to use throughout the semester as a great supplement to classroom lecture. Topics are broken down into manageable pieces. Chapters are interspersed with hypotheticals that include analysis of answers to ensure thorough understanding. The Closer questions pose hypotheticals at the end of each chapter to present a cumulative review.

The most trusted name in law school outlines, Emanuel Law Outlines support your class. Each title includes both capsule and detailed versions of the critical issues and key topics you must know to master the course. Also included are exam questions with model answers, an alpha-list of cases, and a cross reference table of cases for all of the leading casebooks.

Every tort claim for relief, and every affirmative tort defense, has a set of required elements. It is the student's task to learn these elements and to develop an understanding about how to apply them to real and hypothetical fact patterns. Questions & Answers: Torts can help you with this task. The book includes 202 questions - some tough and some relatively easy - organized by topic.

This Understanding treatise is the perfect complement to first-year torts. Concise and authoritative, Understanding Torts features comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of intentional torts, privileges, negligence, cause-in-fact, proximate cause, defenses, joint and several liability, damages, strict liability, products liability, economic torts, malicious prosecution, and invasion of privacy.