Serving the need for law students to understand the law better, the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction establishes the Legal Research Revision Fellowship initiative. The Fellowship is composed of seven notable professionals from the legal research community across several U.S. law schools. The Fellowship’s goal is to revise up to 70 CALI Legal Research lessons to reflect today’s teaching pedagogy and current circumstances. All revisions are peer-reviewed by the Fellowship Team. Everyone at the CALI member law schools will have access to these updated lessons in mid-2021.

The topic of this podcast by Professor Jennifer S. Martin is when silence itself can be acceptance of an offer. Acceptance is simply the name given to an offeree’s action in making the offeror’s promise enforceable. This podcast looks at the exceptional cases where notification of the intention to accept an offer is accomplished by silence.

Learning Outcomes
On completion of the podcast, the student will be able to:
1. Explain that silence is almost never acceptance and that the presumption is against silence is being acceptance.
2. Identify and apply the exceptions to this rule whereby silence can be acceptance:
A. The offeree takes a benefit with the reasonable opportunity to reject it and an expectation of compensation.
B. Where there is prior conduct indicating an offeree should be bound by silence.
C. Where the offeror indicates silence can be acceptance and the offeree intends to accept.
D. Where there is an exercise of dominion by the offeree of the offeror’s property.

This is the eighth version of this textbook, updated through December 2020 for use beginning January 2021.

In addition to incorporating new law and all inflation adjustments, this 2021 edition incorporates new charts pertaining to economic and tax data, including December 2019 CBO charts showing that income inequality between 2015 and 2020 (with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act enacted in 2017) worsened after taxes and transfers than before taxes and transfers are taken into account.

This textbook is not intended to be an exhaustive treatise; rather, it is intended to be far more useful than that for beginning tax law students by equipping the novice not merely with unmoored detail but rather with a rich blueprint that illuminates the deeper structural framework on which that detail hangs (sometimes crookedly).

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 for attacking each portion of the exam, taking care of your mental health, and preparing your loved ones for bar study. The book also provides weekly tips for use during the bar study period, and for exam day itself.

This lesson examines the Supreme Court's decision in SEC v. Howey Co. defining the term "investment contract," and the subsequent evolution of that definition.

This lesson explores the concepts of notice and knowledge. These are important concepts in many areas of law, e.g., contracts, property, constitutional law, criminal procedure and civil procedure

This podcast by Professor Jennifer S. Martin examines when agreements are enforceable as contracts because they are supported by consideration. The podcast looks at common descriptions of consideration, including benefit-detriment and “bargained-for exchange.” It also considers traditional issues of consideration and common disputes involving unequal bargains, nominal or sham consideration, and past consideration. The podcast discusses several hypotheticals and also the following cases: Schnell v. Nell, 17 Ind. 29 (1861), Hamer v. Sidway, 124 N.Y. 538, 27 N.E. 256 (1891), and Basatkis v. Demotsis, 226 S.W.2d 673 (Tex. Civ. App. 1949).

The topic of this podcast is the basic concept of good faith, with a focus on both subjective and objective good faith in the performance of contracts under the common law and the Uniform Commercial Code.