Library Guides: Academic Success: Study Aids

Digital Flashcards

Emanuel Law in a Flash

Powered by SpacedRepetition.com, these digital flashcards are the perfect tool for quizzing yourself and reviewing important definitions, hypotheticals, and black letter law. Available anywhere you have internet access, the Emanuel Law in a Flash flashcard set includes thousands of cards covering Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contract Law, Corporations, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Environmental Law, Evidence, Federal Income Taxation, Professional Responsibility, Property, Secured Transactions, Torts, and Wills, Trusts, and Estates.

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General Study Aids

Aspen Learning Library

Emanuel CrunchTime
The Emanuel CrunchTime series offers extensive features including flow charts, summaries, both short answer and multiple choice sample questions and answers, essay questions with sample answers, and exam tips.
Examples & Explanations
The Examples & Explanations series offers hypothetical questions complemented by clear and detailed explanations that allow you to test your knowledge of the topics in your courses and compare your own analysis.
Friedman's Practice Series
Friedman's Practice Series tests students' knowledge of key concepts and rules on a given legal subject using a collection of essay and multiple choice questions. Set up to mirror actual exams, this series features long, short, and medium-length essay questions.
Glannon Guides
Glannon Guides provide straightforward explanations of tough concepts with hypotheticals that help students understand their application. This series centers on multiple choice questions and provides explanations for correct and incorrect answers.
Inside
The Inside series offers clear explanations of a given legal subject without oversimplifying the material. Their features include FAQs, bullet point chapter summaries, and a connections section that explores how topics interrelate.
Jumpstart
The Jumpstart Series provides a concise overview of a legal subject, along with example cases and analysis. Each book ends with a subject-specific chapter on exams. This series is currently limited to Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, and Torts.

LexisNexis Digital Library

Mastering
The Mastering series is designed to make substance of a given law school course easily and efficiently mastered. Each chapter begins with a roadmap and ends with a checkpoint list to reiterate key points.
Questions & Answers
Each book in the Questions & Answers series contains a hundreds of multiple choice questions, organized by topic, as well as a practice exam. Some subjects also include sample short answer questions.
Skills & Values
The Skills & Values series is an innovative hybrid series of subject-specific, practice-oriented books designed as a tool to teach practical and analytical skills that can help students serve future clients competently, skillfully, and in an ethical manner.

West Academic Study Aid Collection

Acing
The Acing series provides checklists and flowcharts to lead students through the questions they need to ask and answer to analyze the legal questions raised in an exam. Some subjects include practice exams; others include general exam tips.
Exam Pro
The Exam Pro series provides interactive multiple choice practice exams with answers and analyses as well as practice essay exams with model answers and sample student answers.
Nutshells
Nutshells provide a condensed overview of a legal subject, highlighting key cases and essential issues of law. Because their content is concise and easily digestible, a nutshell can help introduce you to or confirm your understanding of a particular area of law.
Quick Reviews
The Quick Review series provides short, clear, concise, and substantive outlines designed to help students prepare for exams. Some subjects include practice multiple choice questions with answers and practice essay questions with suggested answers.
Short & Happy Guides
The Short & Happy Guide series summarizes concepts within a legal subject in a concise and accessible way, with reference to commonly assigned cases. Some subjects include exam-taking tips.

Hornbooks and Treatises

In the Collection

Aspen Treatise Series
The Aspen Treatise series is designed to be a comprehensive resource on a given legal subject. Students can use a treatise in tandem with their casebook to build a stronger foundational understanding of an area of law.

LexisNexis Digital Library

Understanding
The Understanding series provides a basic overview and analysis of a given legal subject, with information on major cases. Students can use a treatise in tandem with their casebook to build a stronger foundational understanding of an area of law.

West Academic Study Aid Collection

Concepts and Insights
The Concepts and Insights series provides a concise summary of the major topics within a legal subject and includes descriptions and analyses of key cases, which may or may not be in your course's textbook.
Hornbook Series
The Hornbook Series provides comprehensive coverage of a particular area of law. Using a hornbook can help you gain additional insight on a particularly tricky or nuanced topic.
Concise Hornbooks
The Concise Hornbook series examines the major topics in a legal subject and summarizes the related body of law. Using a hornbook can help you gain additional insight on a particularly nuanced topic.

Outlines

First, a word of caution about using commercial outlines:

"[T]he processes of synthesizing cases and creating an outline helps the student store her understanding of the rule of law in long-term memory more effectively than reading a commercial outline. Although commercial outlines or other study aids can provide feedback as to whether students have accurately synthesized a rule, if students use them in lieu of synthesizing cases, their learning is likely to be more superficial and last for a shorter period of time."

Hillary Burgess, Deepening the Discourse Using the Legal Mind's Eye: Lessons from Neuroscience and Psychology that Optimize Law School Learning, 29 Quinnipac L. Rev. 1, 36 (2011).

Aspen Learning Library

Emanuel Law Outlines
Emanuel Law Outlines provide comprehensive coverage of the topics, cases, and black letter law and feature Quiz Yourself and Essay Q&A sections, exam tips, and a capsule summary.

LexisNexis for Law Schools

Barbri Outlines
Barbri Outlines are available to Moritz students through their individual LexisNexis accounts.

West Academic Study Aid Collection

Black Letter Outlines
The Black Letter Outline series is designed to be a study aid to help students prepare for classes and as a review aid to study for exams. In addition to an outline, this series includes example exam questions and answers and a glossary of terms.
Gilbert Law Summaries
The Gilbert Law Summaries series provides a full outline of a particular legal topic as well as a capsule summary of all topics covered, review questions for comprehension, exam tips, and sample essay questions and answers.

Audio Study Aids

Aspen Learning Library

Aspen Aloud
Consisting of easy-to-follow, non-casebook-specific chapters broken up into audio files of approximately 10 to 30 minutes each, Aspen Aloud helps students understand the concepts they learn in class and study for exams on the go.
In Other Words Audio Series
Aspen's In Other Words Audio Series covers fundamental topics in law. Each lecture is written and presented by a law professor or legal practitioner. A transcript is available for each track.

CALI (Computer Assisted Legal Instruction)

Lawdibles
Lawdibles are 10-minute audio recordings of law professors explaining narrow legal topics in a straightforward manner.

West Academic Study Aid Collection

Law School Legends
The Law School Legends audio series helps prepare students for exams by having a recognized law school professor explain an entire subject in one clear, concise lecture. A transcript is available for each track.
Sum and Substance Audio
The Sum and Substance Audio series presents the essentials of a legal subject in a clear, succinct, time-saving format. Transcripts are currently unavailable for these tracks.
Office Hours
The Office Hours audio series is a collection of short audio and video tracks that tackle some of the thorniest questions plaguing law students. A transcript is available for each track.

Video Study Aids

Aspen Learning Library

In Other Words Video Series
Aspen's In Other Words Video Series covers fundamental topics in law. Each lecture is written and presented by a law professor or legal practitioner. Subtitles are available for each video.

CALI (Computer Assisted Legal Instruction)

CALI Lessons
CALI hosts a library of over 1,000 interactive lessons created by law professors, which cover subjects taught during 1L year and in common upper level courses.