Law Library Resources to Help You Prepare for Midterms
The library offers a digital collection of study materials that you can access from your laptop, tablet or phone. Find the links below or in the lower right-hand corner of the library's web page.
West Academic Study Aids Library
- Gilbert Law Summaries - These course outlines include black letter law, capsule summaries, and correlation charts to match pages to relevant casebooks. Titles include Civil Procedure, Contracts, and Criminal Law.
- Audio lectures - Both Sum & Substance Audio Lectures and the Law School Legends series offer lectures by noted law school professors in substantive course subjects. Many students like to listen to audio lectures while commuting.
- High Court Case Summaries - This series contains briefs for major cases in the corresponding textbook.
- Nutshell series - Nutshells encapsulate law school subjects in a concise, readable format.
- Acing series - These guides use a checklist format to help students learn how to evaluate legal questions.
- Exam Pro - This series includes sample exams, both interactive multiple-choice and essay questions.
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LexisNexis Digital Library
- Understanding series - Concise treatises on substantive law school topics. Titles include Understanding Contracts, Understanding Civil Procedure, and Understanding Criminal Law.
- Questions & Answers series - Sample multiple-choice and short-answer exam questions with detailed example answers.
CALI Tutorials
Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) provides tutorials on course topics. Many of the tutorials contain vignettes, multiple choice questions, model questions/answers, etc. Stop by the reference desk or email [email protected] for an access code.
How to Succeed in Law School
These titles offer strategies for navigating law school: