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- Accounting for Lawyers
- Advanced Topics in Administrative Law
- Africa in the Global Legal System
- Art Law
- Artificial Intelligence and the Law
- Bankruptcy
- Capital Markets Regulation
- Civil Procedure
- Civil Rights Litigation
- Collective Bargaining & Arbitration
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- Critical Race Theory
- Deal Skills
- Designing a Fulfilling Life in the Law
- Dialogue Across Difference
- Digital Lawyering: Advocacy in the Age of AI
- Early American Legal History
- Emerging Issues in Poverty Law
- Employment Discrimination
- Employment Law
- Energy Law
- Enterprise Organization
- Ethics for Business Lawyers
- European Union Law
- Evidence
- Federal Antitrust
- Federal Courts
- Federal Indian Law
- Federal Prosecution & Defense
- First Amendment
- Global Constitutionalism
- Health Discrimination
- Health Law
- Human Dignity
- Immigrant Justice Lab
- International Commercial Transactions
- International Criminal Law
- International Law
- International Law of Climate Change
- International Tax
- Introduction to Constitutional Law
- Introduction to Constitutional Law & American Legal Process
- Introduction to the Income Taxation of Business Enterprise
- Law, Social Movements, and Justice: Views from Latin America
- Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
- Legal Practice
- Legal Risk Management
- Legislation
- Legislation and Regulation
- Litigation Technology
- Movement Lawyering: Past & Present
- Presidential Powers
- Problems in Constitutional Theory
- Progressive Prosecution: Law & Theory
- Property
- Psych-Informed Lawyering
- Race, Law, and History
- Regulating Contagion: Pandemics in US Legal History
- Research and Analysis in American Law
- Responding to Wrongdoing
- Securities Regulation
- Startups
- Tax Planning for Real Estate Transactions
- Taxation of Individual Income
- Torts
- Trademarks and Unfair Competition
- Transactional Drafting
- Trial Advocacy (Civil)
- Trusts and Estates
- Voting Rights/Election Law
- Water Wars: Law and Advocacy to Save the Great Lakes
Circulation Policy
Study aids held in Closed Reserve:
- Generally: 4 hour check out
- First 2 weeks of term, Study Days, exam days: 2 hour check out
- Cannot be charged to carrels or offices.
Types of Study Aids
Study Aid types:
Below are the types of aids you may find, listed in order of most comprehensive to least comprehensive:
Hornbook Series
Understanding Series
Concise Hornbook Series
Another simplified version of the Hornbook. Contains some footnotes with citations, index and table of cases.
Concepts and Insights Series
Examples & Explanations Series
Mastering the Law Series
Nutshell Series
Exam Pro Series
Exam Study Aids
Call Number: Closed Reserve KF4550 .N6 2010 and Electronic (West Study Aids)
Publication Date: 2010
Hornbook Series
Call Number: Closed Reserve KF4770 .W43 2023
Publication Date: 2023
Understanding Series
Call Number: Electronic (West Study Aids)
Publication Date: 2016
Concise Hornbook Series
Call Number: Electronic (West Study Aids)
Publication Date: 2019
Concepts and Insight Series
Call Number: Closed Reserve KF4558 1st .L58 2021
Publication Date: 2021
Examples & explanations Series
Call Number: Closed Reserve KF4770 .K64 2018x
Publication Date: 2018
Mastering Series
Call Number: Closed Reserve KF4770 .B37 2023x and Electronic (West Study Aids)
Publication Date: 2023
Nutshell Series
Call Number: Closed Reserve KF4550.Z9 W53 2019x and Electronic (West Study Aids)
Publication Date: 2019
Nutshell Series
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