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This handbook is for upper-level students enrolled in a clinic, who are expected to draft legal memorandums, briefs, client letters, and pleadings with minimal supervision. Each chapter focuses o...

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Criminal Law: An Integrated Approach is a new textbook designed for a first-year law school course in criminal law. Its aim is to present an accurate overview of American criminal law as it opera...

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The interactive version of this guide is available online in CALI Lawbooks .  This is written as a guide for first-generation students who are entering or are currently attending law school. ...

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THE INTERACTIVE VERSION OF THE SECOND EDITION IS AVAILABLE ONLINE IN CALI LAWBOOKS . For the CALI Lawbooks version of the First Edition, go here .  Tort Law: A 21st-Century Approach (TL21...

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The purpose of bioethics is to put forth ethically acceptable solutions to the problems posed by modern medicine. The actions of healthcare providers are governed by the four principles of bioeth...

https://www.cali.org/books/bioethics-and-law-notes-cases-and-problems

This Casebook is designed for the “investigations” criminal procedure class commonly taught at American law schools. It focuses on the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution ...

https://www.cali.org/books/criminal-procedure-trachtenberg-alexander

This book is designed to provide guidance to law students as they prepare to embark upon bar study. It covers topics such as how to make a study plan, strategies for successful bar study, tips f...

https://www.cali.org/books/passing-the-bar-guide

This is the Second Edition of A Treatise of Wyoming Workers’ Compensation Law, which seeks both to introduce Wyoming workers’ compensation students to the law of their own jurisdiction, and...

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Torts and Regulation: Cases, Principles, and Institutions, Third Edition (TRCPI) is designed to bring together common law principles in the field of torts with related statutory and regulatory m...

https://www.cali.org/books/torts-and-regulation-cases-principles-and-institutions

Judicial Ethics and Conduct provides materials that can be used in conjunction with a stand-alone one or two unit course on judicial ethics, or can be used in whole or in part to provide the basi...

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The 2023-2024 edition casebook is a basic corporate tax text. It is intended to be suitable for a three-hour law school course. The text is designed to be accessible to law students from widely d...

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THE THIRD EDITION IS AVAILABLE AS A PDF (DOWNLOAD LINK ON THE RIGHT) OR DIRECTLY FROM CALI LAWBOOKS (HTTP://LIBERTY.LAWBOOKS.CALI.ORG/ ) This Casebook is intended to be used in a course which ...

https://www.cali.org/books/liberty-equality-and-due-process-cases-controversies-and-contexts-constitutional-law

This book is a companion volume to Volume I,  "The Story of Contract Law: Formation ."   Volume I introduces students to law study and teaches basic doctrines of contract formation along with...

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American Contract Law for a Global Age by Franklin G. Snyder and Mark Edwin Burge of Texas A&M University School of Law is a casebook designed primarily for the first-year Contracts course as it ...

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This Chapter will address the current protections that are available to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (“LGBT”) individuals who allege they have been victims of employment discriminat...

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These are the Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE) as effective December 01, 2016. The FRE govern the introduction of evidence in civil and criminal trials in United States federal courts. These Rul...

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These are the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) as amended to December 01, 2016. The FRCP govern civil proceedings in the United States district courts and are often the foundation for the ...

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This paper was written as a collaborative project by the Working Group on Distance Education in Legal Education. Contributors included law faculty, administrators, instructional designers, and ...

https://www.cali.org/books/distance-learning-legal-education-design-delivery-and-recommended-practices

Volume Two of this two-volume set covers intentional torts, strict liability, products liability, health and safety regulation, remedies, immunities, wrongful death, constitutional torts, trans...

https://www.cali.org/books/torts-cases-and-contexts-volume-2

Studying the law can be stressful. CALI® has spent over 40 years making the process easier for law students by creating more than 1000 interactive legal tutorials. These CALI Lessons are written...

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This Casebook (Second Edition, December 2019) is intended to be used in an upper-division course covering the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Its 14 chapters are substantiall...

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This is the fourth edition of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, a Casebook Designed to Train Lawyers for the Practice of Bankruptcy Law. It is designed for a one-semester course in debtor/creditor la...

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At its most basic definition the practice of law comprises conducting research to find relevant rules of law and then applying those rules to the specific set of circumstances faced by a client. ...

https://www.cali.org/books/sources-american-law-introduction-legal-research

The purpose of this casebook is to train law students to think and act like probate attorneys. This book is meant to be used in conjunction with the author's book on the law of trusts . This book...

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This revised edition of a basic income tax text is for the 2023-2024 academic year. This edition incorporates the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and highlights of congressional responses to COVID...

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What Color is Your C.F.R.? is  a problem-based law workbook with a colorful twist. Conceived and written by law librarians, it uses easy to understand plain language and is a light-hearted but ...

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This is the Sixth Edition of Torts: Cases, Principles, and Institutions, a casebook for a one-semester torts course that carves out a distinctive niche in the field by focusing on the institutio...

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Sales and Leases is a coursebook for a 3-credit course in personal property sales and leases – the subject matter of UCC Articles 2 and 2A. This is the Second Edition. Adjustments could be mad...

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This book, revised as the Fourth Edition June 2021, is designed to teach contract doctrine beginning with the most fundamental concepts and building on these until the structure of contract doct...

https://www.cali.org/books/story-contract-law-formation

This is the REVISED, FIFTH EDITION of The Wetlands Law Course Source. It can be used as the primary text for a two credit seminar or as a supplemental text to cover wetlands material in an enviro...

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Volume One of this two-volume set introduces the law of torts and covers negligence and liability in the health-care context. Plain-spoken and convivial, this casebook makes a deliberate effort...

https://www.cali.org/books/torts-cases-and-contexts-volume-1

This is the tenth edition of this textbook, and final edition, updated through December 15, 2022 for use beginning January 2023. The author has retired and THIS TITLE WILL BE REMOVED FROM ELANG...

https://www.cali.org/books/us-federal-income-taxation-individuals

Edited by Mary Hatfield Lowe, this guide is written as a Teacher's Manual to assist undergraduate legal studies and paralegal faculty in selecting CALI lessons appropriate for their courses. This...

https://www.cali.org/books/cali-lessons-guidebook-undergraduate-legal-studies-paralegal-faculty

This chapter’s objective is to raise interesting tax ethics issues in practical contexts. There are 42 notes and questions to prompt and guide discussions, and primary source materials to infor...

https://www.cali.org/books/ethics-tax-lawyering-third-edition

This work is presented as part of eLangdell Press' Law and Literature Collection.  It was selected based on a review of syllabi in this discipline. "The law and literature movement focuses on ...

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This work is presented as part of eLangdell Press' Law and Literature Collection.  It was selected based on a review of syllabi in this discipline. "The law and literature movement focuses on ...

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This work is presented as part of eLangdell Press' Law and Literature Collection.  It was selected based on a review of syllabi in this discipline. "The law and literature movement focuses on ...

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This work is presented as part of eLangdell Press' Law and Literature Collection.  It was selected based on a review of syllabi in this discipline. "The law and literature movement focuses on ...

https://www.cali.org/books/oedipus-cycle

This novel is presented as part of eLangdell Press' Law and Literature Collection.  It was selected based on a review of syllabi in this discipline. "The law and literature movement focuses on...

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This novel is presented as part of eLangdell Press' Law and Literature Collection.  It was selected based on a review of syllabi in this discipline. "The law and literature movement focuses on...

https://www.cali.org/books/billy-budd

This is a collection of documents that have formed the foundation of the American legal system.  Magna Carta (1215) Mayflower Compact (1620) The Declaration of Independence (1776) The Articles o...

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Federal Rules Elangdell ebooks are powered by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School, and created in partnership with The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI). You...

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Federal Rules Elangdell ebooks are powered by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School, and created in partnership with The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI). You...

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The Federal Rules Elangdell ebooks are powered by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School, and created in partnership with The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI)....

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The United States Securities Code and Regulations appear in Title 15 of the United States Code and Title 17 of the Code of Federal Regulations.  This publication was made with data provided by t...

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"The Federalist, commonly referred to as the Federalist Papers, is a series of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison between October 1787 and May 1788. The essays w...

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The United States Tradmark Code appears in Chapter 22 of Title 15 of the United State Code.  This publication was made with data provided by the United States government on the Office of Law Rev...

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The United States Patent Code appears in Title 35 of the United State Code.  This publication was made with data provided by the United States government on the Office of Law Revision Counsel Bu...

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The United States Copyright Code appears in Title 17 of the United State Code.  This publication was made with data provided by the United States government on the Office of Law Revision Counsel...

https://www.cali.org/books/united-states-copyright-law

The United States Bankruptcy Code appears in Title 11 of the United State Code.  This publication was made with data provided by the United States government on the Office of Law Revision Counse...

https://www.cali.org/books/united-states-bankruptcy-code-2014-2015

The Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure appear in the Appendix to Title 11 of the United State Code. This publication was made with data provided by the United States government on the Office o...

https://www.cali.org/books/federal-rules-bankruptcy-procedure-2014-2015

The Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure appear in the Appendix to Title 28 of the United State Code.  This publication was made with data provided by the United States government on the Office ...

https://www.cali.org/books/federal-rules-appellate-procedure-2014-2015

Rules of evidence are, as the name indicates, the rules by which a court determines what evidence is admissible at trial. In the U.S., federal courts follow the Federal Rules of Evidence. This ...

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Civil procedure consists of the rules by which courts conduct civil trials. In the U.S., civil procedure usually takes the form of a series of rules and judicial practices. The federal courts fol...

https://www.cali.org/books/federal-rules-civil-procedure-2015-LII

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DEALS WITH THE SET OF RULES GOVERNING THE SERIES OF PROCEEDINGS THROUGH WHICH THE GOVERNMENT ENFORCES SUBSTANTIVE CRIMINAL LAW. This series of Federal Rules books, consisting ...

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This text is designed for use in a Evidence course as a stand-alone chapter. Specifically, this material covers FRE 410. Federal Rule of Evidence 410 was an attempt to codify common law precedent...

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This chapter’s objective is to raise interesting tax ethics issues in practical contexts. There are 44 notes and questions to prompt and guide discussions, and primary source materials to infor...

https://www.cali.org/books/ethics-tax-lawyering-second-edition

This chapter on Propensity Character Evidence under Rule 404 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, is part of a continuing series of chapters written by the author exploring topics in evidence. The c...

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This is Volume 1 of a two volume set written for Property Law. From the Preface: Property, as a vaguely defined collection of contract, tort, and criminal cases, does not take on the natural stru...

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 This is Volume 2 of a two volume set written for Property Law. From the Preface to Volume 1: Property, as a vaguely defined collection of contract, tort, and criminal cases, does not take on th...

https://www.cali.org/books/property-volume-2

This text explores the laws governing the use of land. Sometimes narrowly focused, often intensely local, land use regulation may give the impression of a highly specialized field with small stak...

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The Best Evidence Rule, contained in Article X of the Federal Rules of Evidence (Rules 1001-1008) and state counterparts, is a Rule that requires a party seeking to prove the contents of a writin...

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The anti-jury impeachment rule, contained in Federal Rule of Evidence 606(b) and state counterparts, is a rule preventing the admission of jury testimony or statements in connection with an inqui...

https://www.cali.org/books/evidence-jury-impeachment

The Rape Shield Rule, contained in Federal Rule of Evidence 412 and state counterparts is a Rule preventing the admission of evidence concerning the sexual predisposition and behavior of an alleg...

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The sixth edition, first published as an ebook, and this seventh edition carry forward the philosophy and structure of the earlier editions. This book is not a comprehensive treatise on the subje...

https://www.cali.org/books/computer-aided-exercises-civil-procedure-7th-edition

This chapter covers the Civil Procedure topic of Pleading: The Plaintiff’s Complaint. The chapter takes approximately four class periods to cover in detail. The student is exposed to cases, p...

https://www.cali.org/books/civil-procedure-pleading

This is Volume 1 in a three-volume series. Its former title is "Collaborative Teaching Materials for Contracts."  The first semester of law school is mostly about learning to speak a new lega...

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This is Volume 2 in a three-volume series. Its former title is "Collaborative Teaching Materials for Contracts."  The first semester of law school is mostly about learning to speak a new lega...

https://www.cali.org/books/contract-doctrine-theory-practice-volume-2

This is Volume 3 in a three-volume series. Its former title is "Collaborative Teaching Materials for Contracts."  The first semester of law school is mostly about learning to speak a new lega...

https://www.cali.org/books/contract-doctrine-theory-and-practice-volume-3

This material is about Federal Rule of Evidence 609: Impeachment by Evidence of Criminal Conviction. The goal of the party in impeaching a witness is to use the witness’s prior conviction(s) to...

https://www.cali.org/books/evidence-impeachment-evidence-criminal-conviction

The first year of law school is, for many people, one of the most significant transitions of their adult life. Law school demands a lot as it helps you make the transition from your prior identit...

https://www.cali.org/books/law-school-materials-success

This volume collects six previously released chapters from Professor Miller in the area of Evidence. The individual chapters are available in several formats, including eBook, and PDF. Please s...

https://www.cali.org/books/selected-materials-law-evidence

This electronic publication was conceived in the summer of 1992. A small band of Cornell Law students, charged with identifying subjects on which computer-based materials would be particularly he...

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PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDITION HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED.  THE CURRENT EDITION CAN BE FOUND HERE .   This work first appeared in 1993. It was most recently revised in the fall of 2012 to take account ...

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The use of testamentary trusts is becoming an important part of estate planning. As a result, students who want to make a living as probate attorneys will need to know how trusts fit into estate ...

https://www.cali.org/books/law-trusts