1L Study Aids for Spring Courses
The Law Library has free online study aids to help you in your Spring 1L courses. Here are some examples:
Constitutional Law
- Gilbert Law Summaries on Constitutional Law - Highly used series offering comprehensive plain-language summaries of topics, rules, and important cases, organized in outline format.
- Law School Legends Audio on Constitutional Law - Covers key topics including Marbury v. Madison and judicial review, the Commerce Clause and federal legislative power, equal protection and more.
Criminal Law
- Examples and Explanations for Criminal Law - Top-rated series with examples, explanations, and questions to test student comprehension and provide practice in applying information to fact patterns.
- Criminal Law in a Nutshell - Features concise explanations of criminal law topics in a readable format.
Property
- Acing Property - Popular study aid synthesizing course material and using checklist format to guide students in approaching law school exams.
- Understanding Property Law - Provides comprehensive coverage of topics covered in 1L Property courses, including landlord-tenant law, adverse possession, rights in personal property, intellectual property, estates and future interests, cotenancies, marital property, sales transactions, mortgages, easements, covenants, servitudes, nuisances, eminent domain, zoning, takings, and other land use issues.
For more Con Law, Criminal Law, and Property study aids, see the Library's Study Aids guide. If you need help accessing any of the materials or choosing the right resource, contact a reference librarian at [email protected].