Legal Concepts and Skills

Professors Brown and Grohman, are the authors of many CALI lessons. Additionally, both teach 1L courses.

Prof. Burnham, author of a number of CALI lessons and podcasts provides students with advice on multiple choice exam questions. Prof. Burnham goes into the different aspects of a multiple choice question: the stimulus, options, key, and distracters. Additionally, Prof.

In this podcast, Prof. Jennifer Martin discusses the top ten mistakes law students make in law school examinations.

A Question and Answer session with Prof. McFarland, author of several of CALI's lessons in Tort Law and Civil Procedure. Prof. McFarland has been teaching for over 30 years.

CALI's Director of Curriculum Development, Deb Quentel, spoke with six law professors about outlines, studying for class, preparing for exams, time management, and how professors grade exams. The conversations were recorded as podcasts.

CALI's Director of Curriculum Development, Deb Quentel, spoke with six law professors about outlines, studying for class, preparing for exams, time management, and how professors grade exams. The conversations were recorded as podcasts.

CALI's Director of Curriculum Development, Deb Quentel, spoke with six law professors about outlines, studying for class, preparing for exams, time management, and how professors grade exams. The conversations were recorded as podcasts.

This lesson reviews the material addressing Brand X, the major questions doctrine, and deference to agency interpretations of regulations in Chapter 7 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course

This lesson reviews the material addressing Skidmore v. Swift, Chevron v. NRDC, and United States v.

This lesson reviews the introductory material addressing agencies in Chapter 7 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering agencies and statutory interpretation).

This lesson reviews the material addressing preemption, sovereign immunity, retroactivity, and implied causes of action in Chapter 6 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering substa

This lesson reviews the material addressing the constitutional avoidance canon, severability, and the federalism canon in Chapter 6 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering substan

This lesson reviews the material addressing common law canons, the remedial statutes canon, and the rule of lenity in Chapter 6 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering substantive

This lesson reviews the material addressing subsequent legislative action, inaction, and stare decisis in Chapter 5 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering extrinsic sources).

This lesson reviews the material in the first three sections of Chapter 5 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering extrinsic sources).

This lesson reviews the structural canons covered in Chapter 4 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering intrinsic sources).

This lesson reviews the punctuation, grammar, and textual canons covered in Chapter 4 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering intrinsic sources).

This lesson reviews the exceptions to the plain meaning rule covered in Chapter 4 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering intrinsic sources).

This lesson reviews the plain meaning and ordinary meaning rules covered in Chapter 4 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering intrinsic sources).

This lesson reviews the introductory material in Chapter 4 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering intrinsic sources).

This lesson addresses theories of statutory interpretation and accompanies Chapter 3 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source.

This lesson addresses theories of statutory interpretation and accompanies Chapter 3 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source.

This lesson addresses the process by which Congress makes laws and accompanies Chapter 2 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source.

This lesson reviews the material covered in the second part of Chapter 1 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source. The lesson reviews the Executive Branch controls over agencies.