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BrooklynLaw16 wrote:TLS has been so good to me, giving great advice from back in the LSAT days through today. Here's my chance to give back. If your prof is using the Yeazell casebook for civ pro, buy the Emanuel outline keyed to Yeazell, by John Cross. This was the most valuable book that I had all semester, even better than the Civ Pro E & E.
For crim law, Dressler's hornbook is good. However, I found his black letter law 2d to be even more helpful. It hits the main points and leaves out the minor points. It also has very useful multiple choice questions at the end of each chapter, for reviewing close to finals time. You can find it on Westlaw, under e-products subscription. This subscription is also invaluable, for only $30 a month you get complete access to hundreds of law books. Not everything is on there, but enough that you will save a substantial amount of money using that rather than buying the books in print.
For torts, my professor assigned Dobbs. Dobbs is good, but it's very long-winded and time consuming. I found that the best method of utilizing Dobbs was to access the online version through westlaw (secondary sources --> treatises --> torts --> the law of torts by Dobbs) then use the search box at the top, along with advanced search modifiers, to search for the topic that I wanted to understand. This is better than paging through the book, because although it is very thorough, it can be hard to find things and you may get caught up in the trees. My Torts prof was also very heavy on policy, I found that the outlines posted on http://www.outlinedepot.com were the best resource to learn his policies.
In general, the BARBRI 1L outlines are a good starting point for black letter law questions. They come in a big green book, sold by BARBRI.

3|ink wrote:It's times like this I feel bad that my professors have to read and grade shit like this over and over again.

BigRob wrote:

BrooklynLaw16 wrote:TLS has been so good to me, giving great advice from back in the LSAT days through today. Here's my chance to give back. If your prof is using the Yeazell casebook for civ pro, buy the Emanuel outline keyed to Yeazell, by John Cross. This was the most valuable book that I had all semester, even better than the Civ Pro E & E.
For crim law, Dressler's hornbook is good. However, I found his black letter law 2d to be even more helpful. It hits the main points and leaves out the minor points. It also has very useful multiple choice questions at the end of each chapter, for reviewing close to finals time. You can find it on Westlaw, under e-products subscription. This subscription is also invaluable, for only $30 a month you get complete access to hundreds of law books. Not everything is on there, but enough that you will save a substantial amount of money using that rather than buying the books in print.
For torts, my professor assigned Dobbs. Dobbs is good, but it's very long-winded and time consuming. I found that the best method of utilizing Dobbs was to access the online version through westlaw (secondary sources --> treatises --> torts --> the law of torts by Dobbs) then use the search box at the top, along with advanced search modifiers, to search for the topic that I wanted to understand. This is better than paging through the book, because although it is very thorough, it can be hard to find things and you may get caught up in the trees. My Torts prof was also very heavy on policy, I found that the outlines posted on http://www.outlinedepot.com were the best resource to learn his policies.
In general, the BARBRI 1L outlines are a good starting point for black letter law questions. They come in a big green book, sold by BARBRI.

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