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Guide for First-Year Law Students  Tags: law_students 1l survival_guide torts civil_procedure contracts criminal_law legal_research legal_writing  

This guide will aid new law students in preparing for and surviving the first year of law school. It includes books, audio and video resources, and websites on survival skills and first year courses. Also includes books for international students.
Last update: Jul 09th, 2009 URL: http://libraryguides.law.pace.edu/firstyear  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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CALI Lessons

  • Lessons on civil procedure  
    Lessons on many topics in civil procedure.
  • CALI code  
    If you haven't registered for CALI click here for the authorization code you'll need to set up your account. You only need the code once, after that sign in with your email address and password.
 

Area of Law Outlines

 

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Hornbooks, Treatises, and Nutshells

Most of these are on reserve, ask for them at the Circulation Desk.  Older versions may be in the stacks and can be checked out for longer periods of time.

 
 

Hornbook? Treatise? What?

Hornbook = single-volume scholarly work on a specific area of law geared towards law students.  Hornbooks are very often condensed versions of longer works, called treatises.

Treatise = scholarly work, often multi-volume and with the author's name in the title (e.g., Corbin on Contracts).  These offer in-depth analysis of an area of law, and include historical information and current trends.

Nutshell = short, single-volume, pocket-sized overview of an area of law, published by Thomson/West.

 

Audio Resources

  • Civil Procedure - Richard D. Freer
    Call Number: KF8841 .F74 2009 Audio CD (Reserve)
    Disc 1. Introduction, personal jurisdiction, constitutional limitations; Disc 2. Long-arm statutes, in-rem and quasi-in rem jurisdiction, notice and opportunity to be heard, constitutional standard, opportunity to be heard; Disc 3. Subject matter jurisdiction, diversity of citizenship, federal questions, supplemental jurisdiction, removal from state court; Disc 4. Venue, basic provisions, transfer of venue, forum non conveniens, challenging forum selection, erie doctrine; Disc 5. Pleadings, rule 11, complaint & defendent's responses, amending pleadings; Disc 6. Joinder, permissive and required party joinder, counterclaims and crossclaims, proper parties, necessary and indispensible parties, impleader; Disc. 7. Intervension, interpleader, class actions; Disc 8. Discovery, required disclosure, discovery tools, scope of discovery, work product, discovery sanctions, pretrial adjudication, voluntary dismissal, involuntary dismissal, failure to state claims, summary judgment; Disc 9. Right to jury trial, selection of the jury, post trial motions; Disc 10. Appeals, preclusion, claim preclusion, (res judicata), issue preclusion (collateral estoppel).
 
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