Legal Concepts and Skills

Statutory Law: A Course Source

This is the revised, Second Edition of the Statutory Law Course Source. Unlike traditional casebooks or coursebooks, a “course source” includes resources to train students in all three apprenticeships identified by the Carnegie Foundation in its influential report on legal education, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law.

Images of the Law Coloring Book

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 by law faculty and cover more than 40 different legal subject areas. Within many of the lessons, there are original drawings by the artist Eric Molinsky used to illustrate concepts, aid visual learners, or enliven the presentation.

What Color is Your C.F.R.?

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 helpful supplement to instruction on basic legal research. The book takes a non-traditional approach to legal research and uses short legal research exercises and coloring. 
 

26 Pages in PDF

Published August 2016

The Trial

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.

Bleak House

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.

Billy Budd

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 Foundational Documents of the American Legal System

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 of Confederation (1777)
  • The Treaty of Paris (1783)
  • The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
  • The Consitution of the United States (1787)
  • The Bill of Rights (1791)

The translations and text of these documents came from http://www.ourdocuments.gov/

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