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Study Guides For Law Students: Study Guides on Reserve

Study guides are books that cover the basics of your first-year courses. They are designed to supplement your class material and required texts. Most of our study guides are located in the closed reserve section of the law library, behind the circulatio

Study Guides on Reserve

These study guides are on closed reserve.  Ask for them at the circulation desk; they are shelved by subject, not call#.  They can be checked out for two hours at a time. We have multiple copies of most titles.  They are available on a first-come, first-served basis; they may not be reserved.

Bankruptcy

  • Understanding Bankruptcy 4th ed. (Carolina Academic Press, 2019).

Business Associations

  • Q&A: Business Associations (LexisNexis 2011).

Civil Procedure

  • Emanuel Law Outlines: Civil Procedure (Wolters Kluwer, 2015).
  • Examples & Explanations: Civil Procedure (Wolters Kluwer, 2018)
  • Gilbert Law Summaries: Civil Procedure (West Academic 2017).
  • Q&A: Civil Procedure (LexisNexis 2015).
  • Siegel's Civl Procedure: essay and multiple-choice questions and answers (2012).
  • Understanding Civil Procedure (Carolina Academic Press 2019). (Older edition in stacks)

Constitutional Law

  • Emanuel Law Outlines: Constitutional Law (Wolters Kluwer, 2018).
  • Examples & Explanations: Constitutional Law - Individual Rights  (Wolters Kluwer, 2016).
  • Examples & Explanations: Constitutional Law - National Power and Federalism (Wolters Kluwer, 2016)
  • Gilbert Law Summaries: Constitutional Law (West Academic 2013).
  • Q&A: Constitutional Law - national power and federalism (LexisNexis 2012).
  • Siegel's Constitutional Law: essay and multiple-choice questions and answers (2012).
  • Understanding Constitutional Law (LexisNexis, 2012).

Contracts

  • Emanuel Law Outlines: Contracts (Wolters Kluwer, 2015).
  • Examples & Explanations: Contracts (Wolters Kluwer, 2017).
  • Gilbert Law Summaries: Contracts (West Academic 2002).
  • Q&A: Contracts (Carolina Academic Press, 2020).
  • Siegel's Contracts: essay and multiple-choice questions and answers (2012).
  • Understanding Contracts (Carolina Academic Press, 2018).

Corporations

  • Emanuel Law Outlines: Corporations and Other Business Entities (Wolters Kluwer, 2013).
  • Gilbert Law Summaries: Corporations (West Academic 2016).
  • Understanding Corporate Law (Carolina Academic Press 2018).

Criminal Law & Procedure

  • Emanuel Law Outlines: Criminal Law (Wolters Kluwer, 2015).
  • Emanuel Law Outlines: Criminal Procedure (Wolters Kluwer, 2017).
  • Examples & Explanations: Criminal Law (Wolters Kluwer, 2018).
  • Examples & Explanations: Criminal Procedure: The Constitution and the Police, 9th ed. (Wolters Kluwer 2020).
  • Examples & Explanations: Criminal Procedure II - from bail to jail  (Wolters Kluwer, 2018).
  • Gilbert Law Summaries: Criminal Law (West Academic 2016).
  • Gilbert Law Summaries: Criminal Procedure (West Academic 2016).
  • Q&A: Criminal Law (Carolina Academic Press 2018).
  • Q&A: Criminal Procedure - police investigation (LexisNexis 2016).
  • Siegel's Criminal Law: essay and multiple-choice questions and answers (2013).
  • Siegel's Criminal Procedure: essay and multiple-choice questions and answers (2012).
  • Understanding Capital Punishment Law (LexisNexis, 2004).
  • Understanding Criminal Law (Carolina Academic Press, 2018).
  • Understanding Criminal Procedure (LexisNexis, 2017).
  • Understanding White Collar Crime (LexisNexis, 2011).

Evidence

  • Emanuel Law Outlines: Evidence (Wolters Kluwer, 2018).
  • Examples & Explanations: Evidence (Wolters Kluwer, 2015).
  • Examples & Explanations: California Evidence (Wolters Kluwer, 2016)
  • Q&A: Evidence (LexisNexis 2018).
  • Gilbert Law Summaries: Evidence (West Academic 2005).
  • Understanding Evidence (Carolina Academic Press, 2018).

Environmental Law

  • Examples & Explanations: Environmental Law (Wolters Kluwer, 2016).

Family Law

  • Examples & Explanations: California Community Property (Wolters Kluwer, 2016).
  • Examples & Explanations: Family Law (Wolters Kluwer, 2016).
  • Q&A: Family Law (Carolina Academic Press, 2018).

Intellectual Property

  • Understanding Copyright Law (Carolina Academic Press 2019).
  • Understanding Intellectual Property Law 4th ed. (Carolina Academic Press 2020).

Legal Writing & Research

  • Gilbert Law Summaries: Legal Research, Writing & Analysis (West Academic 2014).

Professional Responsibility

  • Emanuel Law Outlines: Professional Responsibility, 6th ed. (Wolters Kluwer, 2020).
  • Examples & Explanations: Professional Responsibility (Wolters Kluwer, 2016).
  • Gilbert Law Summaries: Legal Ethics (West Academic 2017).
  • Q&A: Professional Responsibility (LexisNexis 2017).
  • Siegel's Professional Responsibility: essay and multiple-choice questions and answers (2012).
  • Understanding Lawyer's Ethics (LexisNexis, 2016). (Older edition in stacks.)

Property Law

  • Emanuel Law Outlines: Property (Wolters Kluwer, 2017).
  • Examples & Explanations: Property Law (Wolters Kluwer, 2019).
  • Gilbert Law Summaries: Property (West Academic 2013).
  • Q&A: Property (LexisNexis 2014).
  • Understanding Property Law (LexisNexis, 2017). (Older edition in stacks.)

Real Estate Law

  • Emanuel Law Outlines: Real Estate (Wolters Kluwer, 2012).
  • Examples & Explanations: Real Estate Transactions (Wolters Kluwer, 2014).

Remedies

  • Examples & Explanations: Remedies (Wolters Kluwer, 2017).
  • Gilbert Law Summaries: Remedies (West Academic 2016).
  • Q&A: Remedies (LexisNexis 2007).
  • Understanding Remedies (LexisNexis, 2014).

Sales

  • Understanding Sales and Leases of Goods 3d ed.  (Carolina Academic Press, 2016).

Securities

  • Understanding Securities Law (Carolina Academic Press, 2018).

Taxation

  • Examples & Explanations: Corporate Taxation (Wolters Kluwer, 2010).
  • Examples & Explanations: Federal Income Tax (Wolters Kluwer, 2019).
  • Q&A: Federal Income Taxation (Carolina Academic Press 2019).
  • Understanding Federal Income Taxation 6th ed. (Carolina Academic Press, 2019).

Torts

  • Emanuel Law Outlines: Torts (Wolters Kluwer, 2015).
  • Examples & Explanations: The Law of Torts (Wolters Kluwer, 2015).
  • Gilbert Law Summaries: Torts (West Academic 2017).
  • Q&A: Torts (LexisNexis 2018).
  • Siegel's Torts: essay and multiple-choice questions and answers (2012).
  • Understanding Torts (Carolina Academic Press, 2018).

Wills, Trusts, & Estates

  • Emanuel Law Outlines: Wills, Trusts, and Estates, 4th ed. (Wolters Kluwer, 2020).
  • Examples & Explanations: Wills, Trusts, and Estates (Wolters Kluwer, 2019).
  • Gilbert Law Summaries: Trusts (West Academic 2008).
  • Gilbert Law Summaries: Wills (West Academic 2010).
  • Q&A: Wills, Trusts, & Estates (LexisNexis 2014).
  • Siegel's Wills and Trusts: essay and multiple-choice questions and answers (2013).
  • Understanding Trusts and Estates (LexisNexis, 2018).

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