Professors Brown and Grohman offer tips for mastering this complicated doctrine and explain the real-world reasons why students and attorneys need to understand the rule against perpetuities.
1L - First Year Lesson Topics
This set of Topics covers subjects typically taught during the first year of law school.
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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 podcast is a question and answer session between Professor Jennifer Martin and a member of CALI's staff. In this podcast, Professor Martin provides advice to students studying acceptance, the mirror image rule and the problem of the Battle of the Forms.
Choice of law occurs when there is an issue of which jurisdiction’s law the courts will apply to a substantive issue. Choice of law is not a question of where a case will be heard, but instead what law applies when hearing the case. Prof. Burnham discusses how parties can influence what law will apply as well as what restrictions apply when doing so.
Professor Scott Burnham discusses unconscionability, the Williams v. Walker-Thomas case, and reasonable expectations. This podcast is a perfect supplement to Professor Burnham's Unjust Terms (Unconscionability) CALI tutorial.
This topic is also covered in Prof. Burnham’s CALI lesson The Parol Evidence Rule
This lesson is the second of two lessons that explore the performance of a contract for the sale of goods. It covers acceptance and revocation. The first lesson covers tender, inspection, and rejection.
This lesson is the first of two lessons that explore the performance of a contract for the sale of goods. It covers tender, inspection and rejection. The second lesson covers acceptance and revocation.
This lesson will provide you with an introduction to Connecticut's secondary source materials. After you have completed this lesson, you will have a better understanding of where to find and how to use the state's secondary source materials including the practice series, periodicals, and practice aids.
Interpretation involves ascertaining the meaning of the words and provisions of a contract. Article 2 of the UCC is intended not to regulate commercial activity, but to facilitate it. An important part of commerce is business practices in general and in particular, usages of trade and understandings of the parties to the contract. Therefore, this lesson emphasizes those parts of interpretation. For a broader discussion of interpretation in contract law, see the CALI Lesson Interpretation of Contracts.
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).