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, presented with questions that are designed to both guide class discussion and to help the student focus his reading of the materials, pleadings from cases, and the applicable Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

This is Volume 1 in a three-volume series. Its former title is "Collaborative Teaching Materials for Contracts." 

This is Volume 2 in a three-volume series. Its former title is "Collaborative Teaching Materials for Contracts." 

This is Volume 3 in a three-volume series. Its former title is "Collaborative Teaching Materials for Contracts." 

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 prove that the witness has a propensity to be deceitful and that the witness is likely acting in conformity with that propensity by lying on the witness stand and/or when making a prior statement admitted at trial to prove the truth of the matter asserted. This material will enable the student to understand FRE 609. 

14,265 Words, 52 Pages PDF

Published 2013

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 see the individual listing for each chapter for details about ordering a print copy or downloading a PDF or Word file of a single chapter. 

Faculty should visit the page for each individual chapter to download the Teacher's Manual where available. 

58,678 Words, 191 Pages PDF

Published 2013

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 helpful, placed citation at the top of the list. With their assistance I prepared the first edition of Introduction to Basic Legal Citation. It was released on diskette that fall, one of the first hypertext publications of Cornell's Legal Information Institute (LII).

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDITION HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED.  THE CURRENT EDITION CAN BE FOUND HERE.

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 planning. In addition, bar examiners realize that it is important for students to have a basic knowledge of trust law. That realization will result in bar examination questions that test that knowledge. This book is designed for use as a supplementary text for a course on wills and trusts and the primary text in a seminar or course exploring the law of trusts.