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Study Aids: First Year Courses

Civil Procedure

Civil Procedure by Samuel Issacharoff
Call Number: Law Reserve KF8840 .I85 2017
Concepts and Insights Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Examples and Explanations for Civil Procedure by Joseph W. Glannon
Call Number: Law Reserve KF8839 .G58 2018
Available online via Aspen Learning Library study aids
Civil Procedure by William V. Dorsaneo; Elizabeth G. Thornburg
Call Number: Law Reserve KF8841 .D67 2015
Questions & Answers Series
(available online via LexisNexis Digital Library)
Civil Procedure by Jack H. Friedenthal; Mary Kay Kane; Arthur R. Miller
Call Number: Law Reserve KF8840 .F72 2021
Hornbook Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Civil Procedure in a Nutshell by Mary Kane
Call Number: Law Reserve KF8841 .K36 2018
Nutshell Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Principles of Civil Procedure by Kevin M. Clermont
Call Number: Law Reserve KF8840 .C58 2021
Concise Hornbook Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Understanding Civil Procedure by Gene R. Shreve; Peter Raven-Hansen; Charles Geyh
Call Number: Law Reserve KF8840 .S484 2019
Understanding Series
(available online via LexisNexis Digital Library)

Contracts

Chirelstein's Concepts and Case Analysis in the Law of Contracts by Marvin A. Chirelstein
Call Number: Law Reserve KF801 .C44 2013
Concepts and Insights Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Contracts by Brian A. Blum
Call Number: Law Reserve KF801 .B58 2017
Available online via Aspen Learning Library study aids
Contracts by Joseph M. Perillo
Call Number: Law Reserve KF801 .C26 2014
Hornbook Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Contracts by Scott J. Burnham
Call Number: Law Reserve KF801.Z9 R69 2020
Questions & Answers Series
(available online via LexisNexis Digital Library)
Contract Law and Theory by Eric A. Posner
Call Number: Law Reserve KF801 .P67 2016
Aspen Student Treatise Series
(available in print only)
Contracts in a Nutshell by Claude D. Rohwer; Anthony M. Skrocki; Michael P. Malloy
Call Number: Law Reserve KF801.Z9 S3 2017
Nutshell Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Principles of Contract Law by Robert A. Hillman
Call Number: Law Reserve KF801.Z9 H55 2019
Concise Hornbook Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Understanding Contracts by Jeffrey Ferriell
Call Number: Law Reserve KF801.Z9 F46 2018
Understanding Series
(available online via LexisNexis Digital Library)

Constitutional Law

Constitutional Analysis in a Nutshell by Thomas Baker
Call Number: Law Reserve KF4550.Z9 W48 2019
Nutshell Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Constitutional Law by Paul E. McGreal; Linda S. Eads; Charles W. Rhodes
Call Number: Law Reserve KF4550.Z9 M4 2017
Questions & Answers
(available online via LexisNexis Digital Library)
Constitutional Law by John E. Nowak; Ronald D. Rotunda
Call Number: Law Reserve KF4550 .N6 2010
Hornbook Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Constitutional Law in a Nutshell by Jerome Barron; C. Dienes
Call Number: Law Reserve KF4550 .Z9 B35 2020
Nutshell Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Constitutional Law: Equal Protection of the Laws by Louis Michael Siedman
Call Number: Law Reserve KF4764.Z9 S45 2003
Turning Point Series
(available in print only)
Examples and Explanations for Constitutional Law by Alan Ides; Christopher N. May; Simona Grossi
Call Number: Law Reserve KF4749 .I34 2019
Available online via Aspen Learning Library study aids
Constitutional Law: National Power and Federalism by Christopher N. May; Allan Ides
Call Number: Law Reserve KF4550 .M29 2013
Available online via Aspen Learning Library study aids
Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies by Erwin Chemerinsky
Call Number: Law Reserve KF4550 .C429 2015
Aspen Student Treatise Series
(available in print only)
Constitutional Law: The Commerce Clause by Dan T. Coenen
Call Number: Law Reserve KF4606 .C63 2004
Turning Point Series
(available in print only)
Constitutional Law: The Religion Clauses by Daniel O. Conkle
Call Number: Law Reserve KF4783 .C648 2003
Turning Point Series
(available in print only)
Principles of Constitutional Law by Ronald D. Rotunda; John E. Nowak
Call Number: Law Reserve KF4550.Z9 .N69 2016
Concise Hornbook Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
State Constitutional Law in a Nutshell by Thomas C. Marks; John F. Cooper
Call Number: Law Reserve KF4550.Z95 M28 2003
Nutshell Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Understanding Constitutional Law by John B. Attanasio; Joel K. Goldstein
Call Number: Law Reserve KF4550 .R43 2012
Understanding Series
(available online via LexisNexis Digital Library)

Criminal Law

Examples and Explanations for Criminal Law by Richard G. Singer
Call Number: Law Reserve KF9219.3 .S54 2022
Available online via Aspen Learning Library study aids
Criminal Law by Emily Marcus Levine; Paul Marcus
Call Number: Law Reserve KF9219.5 .L48 2018
Questions & Answers
(available online via LexisNexis Digital Library)
Criminal Law by Paul H. Robinson; Michael T. Cahill
Call Number: Law Reserve KF9219 .R59 2012
Aspen Student Treatise Series
(available in print only)
Criminal Law by Wayne R. LaFave
Call Number: Law Reserve KF9219 .L38 2017
Hornbook Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Criminal Law in a Nutshell by Arnold Loewy
Call Number: Law Reserve KF9219.Z9 .L6 2020
Nutshell Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Death Penalty in a Nutshell by Victor L. Streib; Sam Kamin; Justin Marceau
Call Number: Law Reserve KF9227.C2 S772 2017
Nutshell Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Principles of Criminal Law by Wayne R. LaFave
Call Number: Law Reserve KF9219.3 .L34 2017
Concise Hornbook Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
The Death Penalty by Brandon Garrett; Lee Kovarsky
Call Number: Law Reserve KF9227 .C2 G37 2018
Concepts and Insights Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Understanding Criminal Law by Joshua Dressler
Call Number: Law Reserve KF9219 .D74 2018
Understanding Series
(available online via LexisNexis Digital Library)

Legal Research

Legal Research in a Nutshell by Kent Olson
Call Number: Law Reserve KF240 .C54 2021
Nutshell Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Principles of Legal Research by Kent Olson
Call Number: Law Reserve KF240 .O57 2015
Concise Hornbook Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)

Legal Writing

Examples and Explanations for Legal Writing by Terrill Pollman; Judith M. Stinson; Elizabeth Pollman
Call Number: Law Reserve KF250 .L398 2019
Available online via Aspen Learning Library study aids
Legal Writing and Analysis in a Nutshell by Lynn Bahrych; Jeanne Merino; Beth McLellan
Call Number: Law Reserve KF250 .S68 2017
Nutshell Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Legal Writing Style by Antonio Gidi; Henry Weihofen
Call Number: Law Reserve KF250 .W45 2018
Hornbook Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)

Property

Landlord and Tenant Law in a Nutshell by David Hill; Carol Brown
Call Number: Law Reserve KF590.Z9 H45 2018
Nutshell Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Personal Property in a Nutshell by Barlow Burke
Call Number: Law Reserve KF705.Z9 B83 2018
Nutshell Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Preface to Estates in Land and Future Interests by Thomas F. Bergin; Paul G. Haskell
Call Number: Law Reserve KF577 .B4 1984
University Textbook Series
Principles of Property Law by Herbert Hovenkamp; Sheldon F. Kurtz; Thomas P. Gallanis
Call Number: Law Reserve KF570 .S652 2016
Concise Hornbook Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Principles of the Law of Property, 1989 by John E. Cribbet; Corwin W. Johnson
Call Number: Law Reserve KF561 .C7 1989
University Textbook Series
(available in print only)
Property by John Copeland Nagle
Call Number: Law Reserve KF570 .N34 2014
Questions & Answers Series
(available online via LexisNexis Digital Library)
Property by Joseph William Singer
Call Number: Law Reserve KF570.Z9 S56 2017
Aspen Student Treatise Series
(available in print only)
Examples and Explanations for Property by Barlow Burke; Joseph Snoe
Call Number: Law Reserve KF560 .B87 2019
Available online via Aspen Learning Library study aids
Property: Takings by David A. Dana; Thomas W. Merrill
Call Number: Law Reserve KF5599.Z9 D36 2002
Turning Point Series
(available in print only)
Real Property in a Nutshell by Roger Bernhardt; Ann M. Burkhart
Call Number: Law Reserve KF570 .B47 2016
Nutshell Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
The Law of Property by Dale Whitman; Ann Burkhart; R. Freyermuth; Troy Rule
Call Number: Law Reserve KF561 .C86 2019
Hornbook Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
The Law of Property by Christopher Serkin
Call Number: Law Reserve KF570 .S47 2016
Concepts and Insights Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Understanding Property Law by John G. Sprankling
Call Number: Law Reserve KF561 .S67 2017
Understanding Series
(available online via LexisNexis Digital Library)

Torts

Hornbook on the Law of Torts by Dan B. Dobbs
Call Number: Law Reserve KF1250 .D58 2000
Hornbook Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Hornbook on Torts by Dan Dobbs; Paul Hayden; Ellen Bublick
Call Number: Law Reserve KF1250 .D579 2016
Hornbook Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Principles of Tort Law by Marshall Shapo
Call Number: Law Reserve KF1250.Z9 S53 2016
Concise Hornbook Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Prosser and Keeton on the Law of Torts by Page Keeton; William L. Prosser
Call Number: Law Library KF1250 .P73 1984b
Hornbook Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
The Forms and Functions of Tort Law by Kenneth Abraham
Call Number: Law Reserve KF1250.Z9 A27 2017
Concepts and Insights Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Examples and Explanations for the Law of Torts by Joseph W. Glannon
Call Number: Law Reserve KF1250.Z9 G58 2020
Available online via Aspen Learning Library study aids
Torts by Anita Bernstein
Call Number: Law Reserve KF1250.Z9 B47 2018
Questions & Answers Series
(available online via LexisNexis Digital Library)
Torts in a Nutshell by Edward J. Kionka
Call Number: Law Reserve KF1250.Z9 K53 2015
Nutshell Series
(available online via West Academic Study Aids)
Torts: Proximate Cause by Joseph A. Page
Call Number: Law Reserve KF1254 .P34 2003
Turning Point Series
(available in print only)
Understanding Torts by John L. Diamond; Lawrence C. Levine; Anita Bernstein
Call Number: Law Reserve KF1250 .D5 2018
Understanding Series
(available online via LexisNexis Digital Library)