Study Aids Available Through the Law Library

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.

Access from your device. Download the app  to view West Study Aids on your mobile device.

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.

How to Succeed in Law School

These titles offer strategies for navigating law school: