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1L Study Aids: 2nd Week of Fall 2025 Exams

Contracts

Selected Study Aids for Help in Understanding Contracts

• Concepts and Case Analysis in the Law of Contracts
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, the updated seventh edition of Concepts and Case Analysis in the Law of Contracts offers first-year law students a reliable overview of the major themes and leading cases in the field of the law of contracts. This contracts primer covers the main themes of the first-year contracts course, together with related cases.
• Contracts CALI Lessons
  • CALI, currently offers many interactive exercises for Contracts students. You will need to set up a password to use CALI online. To set up a username and password, you will be asked to enter UC Law’s authorization code. UC Law students can get this code from any reference librarian.
• Contracts: Examples & Explanations
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library, this study aid provides treatment of the first-year contracts syllabus, written for students and designed to provide them with information, examples, and analysis of appropriate complexity and detail. Combines textual material with examples, explanations, and questions to test students’ comprehension of the materials and provide practice in applying information to fact patterns. This text covers the contractual relationship, form contracts, consideration, promissory estoppel, unjust enrichment, restitution, interpretation and construction, Statute of Frauds, Parole Evidence Rule, incapacity, mistake, public policy violations, breach of contract, remedies, assignment, and more.
• Understanding Contracts
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this Understanding text explains common law principles of contract law using cases and examples that students commonly encounter in this first-year course. It draws illustrations from the Restatement (Second) of Contracts, and from Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code as it has been adopted in all fifty states.

Selected Study Aids for Contracts Exam Review and Preparation

• The Glannon Guide to Contracts
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library, Contracts topics are broken down into manageable pieces and are explained in a conversational tone. Chapters are interspersed with hypotheticals. Multiple-choice questions are interspersed throughout each chapter (not lumped at the end) to mirror the flow of a classroom lecture. Correct and incorrect answers are carefully explained; you learn why they do or do not work.
• Questions and Answers: Contracts
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this study guide includes 168 multiple-choice and short-answer questions arranged topically for ease of use during the semester, plus an additional set of 40 questions comprising a comprehensive “practice exam.” For each multiple-choice question, Professor Burnham provides a detailed answer that indicates which of four options is the best answer and explains thoroughly why that option is better than the other three options. Each short-answer question is designed to be answered in fifteen minutes or less. For these questions, Professor Burnham provides a thoughtful, comprehensive, yet brief model answer.
• Step-by-Step Guide to Contracts
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this is an interactive workbook designed to effectively prepare students to pass exams. The most heavily tested legal rules are presented in a format that mirrors the way they arise as issues in typical testing fact patterns. Rule statements are set out in easy-to-memorize statements, with a breakdown of the element components and logical steps to take to apply new facts to each legal element. Fluency with the legal terminology is also essential to exam success, so this Step-by-Step Guide includes fill-in-the-blank spaces to help you learn and memorize definitions of key terms as they are introduced, and a glossary of selected terms at the end for further reference. In addition to learning the law and memorizing key rules and terms, success in law school also requires the hard work of deep learning, engaging with problems to test your own knowledge, and working toward gaining a strong command of all testable topics. To that end, this Guide contains short-answer Test Yourself questions. Working through these questions and then reading the answers and explanations to determine where your understanding is clear and where you must do additional work will help you master the skill of applying the relevant rules to new and different fact patterns. In addition to the short-answer questions, this Guide also includes numerous full-length essay questions with sample answers —providing further practice to test your knowledge and deepen your learning.

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Torts

Selected Study Aids for Help Understanding Torts

• Hornbook on Torts
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this single-volume hornbook provides a comprehensive overview of tort and injury law. The book covers all of the major topics in tort law. Topics include liability for physical injuries, as well as emotional, dignitary, and economic harms. This edition includes citations to hundreds of cases and statutes decided over the last decade, as well as references to the Restatement (Third) of Torts.
• The Law of Torts: Examples and Explanations
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library, this study aid provides an overview of Torts, together with examples that illustrate how these principles apply in typical cases. Features coverage of intentional torts; chapters on trespass to chattels, conversion and trespass to land, false imprisonment, and intentional infliction of emotional distress; and a section on Taking a Torts Essay Exam. A series of problems at the end of each section or chapter assist you in testing your understanding. Answers are provided for these problems.
• Torts CALI Lessons
  • CALI currently offers a number of interactive exercises for students studying Torts. You will need to set up a password to use CALI online. To set up a username and password, you will be asked to enter UC Law’s authorization code. UC Law students can get this code from any reference librarian.
• Understanding Torts
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this text features coverage of intentional torts, privileges, negligence, cause-in-fact, proximate cause, defenses, joint and several liability, damages, strict liability, products liability, economic torts, malicious prosecution, abuse of process, defamation and invasion of privacy. Judicious use of footnotes to provide full, but not overwhelming, primary and secondary support for textual propositions.

Selected Study Aids for Torts Exam Review and Preparation

• Acing Tort Law
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this text begins with the broad policy arguments that arise in torts and provides a checklist approach to recognizing these policy arguments and articulating them. The rest of the book provides a how-to guide for different doctrinal areas of tort law. Chapter Two presents intentional torts (and defenses to intentional torts). Chapters Three through Six present the law of negligence. Chapter Seven presents the law of strict liability. Once a plaintiff establishes a legal entitlement to recover for an injury because the defendant has committed an intentional tort, negligent tort, or strict liability tort (or some combination of these three), then the plaintiff can obtain a remedy for the conduct of the defendant. Chapter Eight explains what these remedies are. Chapter Nine moves to more specialized topics in negligence and strict liability, specifically the question of defenses that a defendant can raise against the tort claims brought by the plaintiff. Chapter Ten presents the subject of vicarious liability, which deals with questions of when someone can be liable for the torts committed by someone else, such as an employer for the torts committed by an employee or a parent for the torts committed by a child. Finally, Chapters Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen present three areas of advanced torts: products liability, reputation-based torts (such as defamation), and business torts.
• The Glannon Guide to Torts
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library, this text covers intentional torts, negligence, causation, strict liability torts, products liability, and damages. Each chapter begins by explaining a rule in its relevant context. Then test your understanding of what you have just read with a multiple-choice question. Following the question, the correct answer is identified and an explanation given as to why that answer is better than the other answers. Each chapter concludes with “The Closer,” a question that tests you on one or more major concepts from the chapter. The final chapter of the book contains “Closing Closers” that test you on materials across the chapters and are more illustrative of the kinds of questions many professors would ask on final examinations.
• Questions and Answers: Torts
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this book includes 202 questions organized by topic. The multiple-choice questions require students to pick the best of a list, the worst of a list, or the story that illustrates a point of doctrine most effectively. The short answers require analysis of scenarios and communication of discrete points. The Practice Final Exam and Essay Issue-Spotter Questions contain an additional 54 questions.

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2L, 3L & LLM Study Aid: 2nd Week of Fall 2025 Exams

Business Tax

Selected Study Aids for Help Understanding Business Tax

• Corporate and Partnership Taxation in Six Concepts (Core Concepts)
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this single-volume hornbook provides a comprehensive overview of tort and injury law. The book covers all of the major topics in tort law. Topics include liability for physical injuries, as well as emotional, dignitary, and economic harms. This edition includes citations to hundreds of cases and statutes decided over the last decade, as well as references to the Restatement (Third) of Torts.
•  Corporate Taxation: Examples & Explanations
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library, this study guide provides explanation of Subchapter C, addressing the tax consequences of corporate formations, distributions, liquidations, reorganizations, and divisions. It covers changes resulting from the 2017 legislation and subsequent reforms and how those changes can affect business structures.
• Partnership Taxation: Examples & Explanations
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library, this book covers the main canon of the domestic taxation of partnerships and partners; it uses the partnership's lifecycle to accomplish this by starting with the formation of a partnership, continuing with its operations, and finishing with the various ways to exit or terminate the partnership. The book focuses on the tax consequences to the partnership as entity and to the partners.
• Taxation of Business Entities CALI Lessons
  • CALI currently offers a number of interactive exercises for students studying Business Tax. You will need to set up a password to use CALI online. To set up a username and password, you will be asked to enter UC Law’s authorization code. UC Law students can get this code from any reference librarian.
• Understanding Taxation of Business Entities
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this book is broken into parts on partnership taxation, C corporation taxation, and S corporation taxation. Each chapter contains a basic overview and a detailed analysis; this allows for an understanding of the big picture before diving into the details, and the basic overview alone may be sufficient for some topics that may be covered lightly in a business entity taxation course. For each type of business tax entity, the book covers its life cycle - formation, operations, and liquidation - along with reorganizations and divisions for corporations. The book is replete with descriptions and analyses of the relevant Internal Revenue Code and Treasury Regulations provisions, summaries of leading cases and IRS rulings, and plenty of examples that apply the law to hypothetical situations.

Selected Study Aids for Business Tax Exam Review and Preparation

• Black Letter Outline on Corporate Taxation
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this comprehensive and clearly written text is designed to help students recognize and understand the basic principles and issues covered in law school courses in corporate taxation at both the J.D. and LL.M. levels. It explains all the fundamental concepts and transactions affecting C and S corporations and their shareholders, and includes numerous illustrative examples, self-test questions with answers, and sample exam questions. The Ninth Edition incorporates all relevant provisions of the 2017 legislation known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
• Exam Pro on Partnership Taxation
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, the Second Edition of the Exam Pro on Partnership Taxation extends the approach of the original as a partnership tax study guide with questions and answers. Completely revised and updated, it includes lectures and study questions on the deduction for qualified business income under section 199A, the new regulations on allocating partnership recourse debt, and the choice of entity for conducting business and investment activities. New sample exams at the basic, intermediate and advanced levels give you an even better shot to ace your partnership tax exam. The book is designed to help JD and LLM students from the first day of class. It begins with over 50 short lectures on topics in partnership tax ranging from basic to advanced, illustrated by over 280 study questions, each with a complete explanation of the right (and wrong) answers. Several of the lectures focus on the basic accounting concepts that are essential to understanding partnership tax, to give students with no prior accounting background the tools they need to succeed in this subject. The book includes twelve sample exams (a total of 120 more questions) that, like the lectures, increase in difficulty from basic to advanced, labeled so that students can pick the exams that are right for them and the course they are taking. Full answers to each of the exam questions are provided, with cross-references to the lectures and the study questions.
• Gilbert Law Summaries on Taxation of Business Entities
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this outline discusses taxation of partnerships, including current partnership income, contributions of property to partnership, sale of partnership interest, distributions, and liquidations, as well as the taxation of corporations, including formation, corporate distributions, sales of stock and assets, and reorganizations, S corporations. The book has been updated to include discussion of the special taxation of Qualified Business Income and other changes adopted as part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
• Questions and Answers: Taxation of Business Entities
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this text includes questions on topics relating to a wide array of tax issues corporations, partnerships, and subchapter s corporations encounter, as well as questions comparing the tax issues of concern for these entities.

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Corporate Finance

Selected Study Aids for Help Understanding Corporate Finance Law

• Business Organization and Finance, Legal and Economic Principles (Concepts &Insights)
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this study aid explains the basic economic elements and legal principles of business organization and finance. It distills in a straightforward and accessible way the essential elements of these often complex topics and explains the basic economic elements and legal principles of business organization and finance with concise, conceptual overviews. It contains a detailed introduction outlining the essential functions of corporate law. It contains an invaluable new section covering recent developments in financial markets, the financial crisis, the role of derivatives and financial complexity in the modern corporation to give students background on modern financial issues.
• Corporate Finance in a Nutshell
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this title covers the entire field of corporate finance, including changes stemming from the Dodd-Frank Act. In addition to discussing accounting and valuation concepts, it provides extensive coverage of the legal and financial underpinnings of debt securities, preferred and common stock, and derivative instruments (options, forward contracts, futures contracts and swap contracts). It also provides sample valuation problems, answers, and explanations.
• Corporate Finance (Hornbook)
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this Hornbook lays out the fundamentals of corporate finance from a legal and business perspective in a manageable, user-friendly manner. The author highlights how accounting, finance and corporate law intersect and operate synergistically. The book provides an in-depth analysis of how the law affects both equity securities (common stock and preferred stock) and debt securities (bonds, debentures and notes), as well as a company’s capital structure generally. New to the Second Edition is a substantial chapter focused on raising capital through the issuance of securities through both registered public offerings under the Securities Act of 1933 and transactions exempt from Securities Act registration. The SEC’s integration of multiple securities offerings is also covered.
• Mergers and Acquisitions Law (Hornbook)
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this Hornbook provides a comprehensive exploration of this important topic. Written in a casual style designed to engage the reader, the book clarifies and critiques critical doctrine. In addition to covering corporate laws governing mergers and acquisitions, the book explores securities, tax, and antitrust laws, as well as addressing the business, financial, and practical lawyering aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

Study aids on Corporations, Business Associations, and Securities may also be helpful here.

Criminal Procedure: IP

Selected Study Aids for Help Understanding Criminal Procedure IP

• Criminal Procedure CALI Lessons
  • CALI currently offers a number of interactive exercises for students studying Criminal Procedure. You will need to set up a password to use CALI online. To set up a username and password, you will be asked to enter UC Law’s authorization code. UC Law students can get this code from any reference librarian.
• Criminal Procedure I: The Constitution and the Police: Examples & Explanations
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library subscription, this study aid provides an overview of Criminal Procedure, together with examples that illustrate how these principles apply in typical cases. The text gives students a sense of the theoretical flow and logic of law enforcement by following police procedural order. It includes a special section on terrorism in the United States and the Fourth Amendment ramifications. A series of problems at the end of each section or chapter assist you in testing your understanding. Answers are provided for these problems.
• Criminal Procedure (Hornbook)
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this title analyzes the law governing all major steps in the criminal justice process, beginning with investigation and ending with post-appeal collateral attacks. The coverage is comprehensive, including federal and state statutes and court rules and descriptions of practice as well as constitutional limitations, with an emphasis upon those issues deemed most significant in the case law and literature. Because of their special importance, leading Supreme Court opinions are given in-depth treatment. All Hornbook sections are cross-referenced to comparable sections of the authors' 7-volume Criminal Procedure treatise (readily available on Westlaw database CRIMPROC) containing more detailed analysis and citations to additional supporting authorities.
• Understanding Criminal Procedure: Vol. 1 Investigation
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, Understanding Criminal Procedure Volume One: Investigation is intended for use in introductory criminal procedure courses focusing primarily or exclusively on police investigative process and constitutional concerns. A chapter on the defendant’s right to counsel at trial and appeal and other non-police-practice issues is included in both volumes. The eighth edition of Investigation incorporates all of the major Supreme Court cases since the last edition was published, such as Carpenter v. United States, Mitchell v. Wisconsin, Collins v. Virginia, and Kansas v. Glover. It also includes an in-depth discussion of the mosaic theory of searches, and contains expanded coverage of issues surrounding border searches, the third-party doctrine, and the exigent circumstances exception to the warrant requirement.

Selected Study Aids for Criminal Procedure I Exam Review and Preparation

• Acing Criminal Procedure
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this text covers incorporation and retroactivity, right to counsel, search and seizure, police interrogations and confessions, identification Procedures, the Exclusionary Rule, and entrapment. Checklists are provided for all topics generally covered in the basic criminal procedure course.
• Glannon Guide to Criminal Procedure
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library subscription, this Glannon Guide reviews the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment cases and principles typically covered in law school criminal procedure class. It mirrors the classroom experience by teaching through explanation, interspersed with hypotheticals to illustrate application. Both correct and incorrect answers are explained; you learn why a solution does or does not work.
• Questions and Answers: Criminal Procedure — Police Investigation
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this book will assist readers’ learning and exam preparation in criminal procedure courses and for the bar exam. This volume covers arrest, search and seizure, interrogation, identification, suppression issues, and entrapment.

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Employment Law

Selected Study Aids for Help Understanding Employment Law

• CALI Lessons on Employment Discrimination
  • CALI currently offers two interactive exercises for Employment Discrimination students. You will need to set up a password to use CALI online. To set up a username and password, you will be asked to enter UC Law’s authorization code. UC Law students can get this code from any reference librarian.
• Employment Discrimination: Examples & Explanations
  • This text covers individual claims of intentional discrimination; systematic claims of intentional discrimination; non-intentional discrimination; special proof issues under Title VII; specific issues involving the five protected classifications; enforcement: procedures; enforcement: remedies; the reconstruction Civil Rights Acts, the Equal Pay Act ,the Age Discrimination in Employment Act; and discrimination on the basis of disability. Analysis is first provided for a topic and then examples are given to help students understand the analysis. A series of problems at the end of each section or chapter assist you in testing your understanding. Answers are provided for these problems.
• The Law of Employment (Concepts & Insights)
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this text is a one-volume treatment of the basic analytical structure and legal policy issues informing U.S. employment law. The full range of the subject matter is examined with chapters on defining who are employees (as opposed to independent contractors); employment contracts; employment torts; workplace privacy; post-termination restraints and workplace intellectual property issues; employee benefits; wage-hour laws; occupational safety; workers' compensation; and unemployment compensation. Introductory chapters are also included on the economic analysis of employment regulation, employment discrimination, union organization, and collective bargaining laws.    
• Understanding Employment Law
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this text begins first with common-law employment doctrines such as employment-at-will, employment contracts, employment torts, workplace privacy issues, and restrictive covenants. It then turns to federal and state statutory regulation of the workplace, covering topics such as compensation (including wage and hour legislation and unemployment insurance), employee benefits (including leave time, pensions, and health insurance), and workplace safety legislation.

Selected Study Aids for Employment Law Exam Review and Preparation

• Questions and Answers: Employment Discrimination
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this study guide uses 155 multiple choice, short-answer, and true/false questions spread over 15 topics to test students’ knowledge of analytical skills related to employment discrimination law. It also includes one full final exam, along with four additional issue-spotter questions and four short answer questions of the type often included in final exams. The book begins with introductory questions, then moves to questions about the frameworks and proof structures used to analyze different types of discrimination, and concludes with a series of topics related to more detailed issues relevant to classes protected by Title VII, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. The practice final exam and additional exam-type questions follow these topics.

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Family Law

Selected Study Aids for Help in Understanding Family Law

• Family Law CALI Lessons
  • CALI currently offers many interactive exercises for Family Law students. You will need to set up a password to use CALI online. To set up a username and password, you will be asked to enter UC Law’s authorization code. UC Law students can get this code from any reference librarian.
• Family Law: Examples & Explanations
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library, this study aid continues to identify and explore new trends in family law practice. It includes central topics such as alternative dispute resolution, domestic violence, alternative reproduction, premarital agreements, and professional responsibility. Analysis is first provided for a topic and then examples are given to help students understand the analysis. A series of problems at the end of each section or chapter assist you in testing your understanding. Answers are provided for these problems.
• Family Law in Perspective (Concepts & Insights)
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this book addresses, among other topics, nonmarital cohabitation, establishment of paternity, premarital and marital contracting, assisted reproductive technology, marriage, and divorce. Recent cases and federal and state statutes address specific topics such as surrogacy agreements, division of marital and nonmarital property upon dissolution of cohabitation or divorce, child support guidelines, and establishing custody rights through parenting agreements or what is considered in the best interest of the child. And there is a continuation of discussion illustrating equal protection, liberty interest, and free exercise in the context of same-sex relationships, the safety of partners and children, and termination of parental rights and possible adoption of minors.
• Understanding Family Law
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, Understanding Family Law includes coverage of topics such as traditional and nontraditional families, nonmarital and postmarital contracts, annulment, paternity and legitimacy, procreation rights, contraception, abortion, sterilization, artificially assisted conception, and adoption and termination of parental rights. It explains specific family law issues, such as intrafamily tort immunity and liability, medical care for child and spouse, wrongful life and wrongful birth, domestic violence, PINS, CHINS, ethical issues for the lawyer, alternative dispute resolution, equitable distribution, community property, and child custody and visitation. It also includes references to 50 states surveys so the reader can find their local law quickly.

Selected Study Aids for Family Law Exam Review and Preparation

• Emanuel Law Outlines: Family Law
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library, this book provides coverage of family law, including the latest Supreme Court cases, recent uniform and model legislation, and landmark state and federal decisions on LGBTQ rights including: (child custody, parentage, names, housing/employment discrimination); breastfeeding discrimination; divorce discrimination; marital paternity presumption; marital communications privilege; reproductive freedom and control; name disputes; state polygamy laws; parentage rights in multi-parent families; spousal spying for infidelity; move-away disputes; and tort actions against third parties. New to the Fifth Edition: Coverage of latest Supreme Court family law cases as well as recent uniform and model legislation, including: June Medical Services v. Gee Masterpiece, Cakeshop v. Colo. Civil Rights Comm’n, Pavan v. Smith, Sessions v. Morales-Santana, Bostock v. Clayton County, Uniform Parentage Act, Uniform Nonparent Custody & Visitation Act, Restatement, Children & the Law, ABA Model Act Governing Assisted Reproduction, and more.
• Questions and Answers: Family Law
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this study guide includes over 210 multiple-choice and short-answer questions arranged topically for ease of use during the semester, plus an additional set of 28 questions comprising a comprehensive “practice exam.” For each multiple-choice question, you are provided a detailed answer that indicates which of four options is the best answer and explains thoroughly why that option is better than the other three options. Each short-answer question is designed to be answered in fifteen minutes or less. For these questions, a model answer is provided.
• Quick Review of Family Law
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, Sum and Substance Quick Review is a short, clear, concise, and substantive outline. Through both a summary of the law and numerous examples and illustrations, this study guide examines the “new” family law issues which have evolved in recent years and analyzes the traditional family law matters which both law students and practitioners must understand—validity of marriage, annulment, divorce, adoption, and rights and responsibilities arising from non-marital relationships. This book also includes sample questions and answers to help the law student both during law school and in preparation for the bar examination.

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Federal Income Tax

Selected Study Aids for Help Understanding Federal Income Tax

• Federal Income Tax: Examples & Explanations
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library, this text provides students with a summary of topics and issues in federal income tax. Its index includes a Table of Cases and a Table of Internal Revenue Code Sections. Analysis is first provided for a topic and then examples are given to help students understand the analysis. A series of problems at the end of each section or chapter assist you in testing your understanding. Answers are provided for these problems.
• Federal Income Taxation (Concepts & Insights series)
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this text explains the conceptual basis of federal income taxation. It is designed to help students quickly pull together the entire subject for end-of-semester review and provide perspective about where a topic fits within the federal income tax scheme. While focusing on the present income tax, the text provides an explanation of the often-discussed consumption tax and contrasts the two taxes in a note at the end of the volume. The new edition reflects developments since the fourteenth edition, including the promulgation of regulations interpreting major provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. It also features new or expanded discussions of several topics, including: possible legislative reconsideration of the realization requirement (in the context of "billionaires' tax" proposals); the long-term shift from deductions to credits in the design of nonbusiness tax expenditures, and the new and used electric car credits introduced by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
• Tax Law CALI Lessons
  • CALI offers many interactive exercises for Tax Law students. You will need to set up a password to use CALI online. To set up a username and password, you will be asked to enter UC Law’s authorization code. UC Law students can get this code from any reference librarian.
• Understanding Federal Income Taxation
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this book consists of forty-two chapters with each chapter addressing a basic topic in individual income taxation, e.g., the taxation of personal physical injury award, gifts, devises and inheritances, the taxation of gains from the sale or exchange of property, and the tax consequences of divorce. Each chapter provides a detailed explanation of the interpretation and application of relevant Internal Revenue Code provision(s) and Treasury Regulations as well as summaries of leading cases and administrative rulings. The practical application of these authorities is illustrated in the numerous examples contained in each chapter. Because the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code are necessarily at the heart of tax study, each chapter also includes a part or all of the Code section(s) pertinent to the chapter topic. In summary, the book provides a detailed overview of the principles, policies and law underlying federal individual income taxation.

Selected Study Aids for Federal Income Tax Exam Review and Preparation

• Black Letter Outline on Federal Income Taxation
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, Black Letter Outlines are designed to help a law student recognize and understand the basic principles and issues of law covered in a law school course. Black Letter Outlines can be used both as a study aid when preparing for classes and as a review of the subject matter when studying for an examination. Each Black Letter Outline is written by experienced law school professors who are recognized national authorities in their subject area.
• Exam Pro on Federal Income Tax (Objective)
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this edition of Exam Pro on Federal Income Tax contains 200 multiple-choice questions derived from actual final examination questions. The questions are “challenging” and provide you with a comprehensive landscape of the concepts and topics covered in a typical Federal Income Tax course. The “Answer Keys” contain thorough analyses that explain relevant Federal Income Tax rules in a logical, step-by-step approach to help you skillfully apply the rules to various fact patterns. The questions, and accompanying answers, also serve as a valuable resource for approaching and answering exam essay questions.
• Questions and Answers: Federal Income Taxation
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this study guide contains over two hundred multiple-choice and short-answer questions which progress through topics similar in sequence and manner to many federal income tax courses taught at the law school level. This student guide also contains a comprehensive practice exam designed to prepare students for final exams with explanations about each correct and incorrect answer choice.

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Legal Ethics Skills

See our blog post from last week on Legal Ethics study aids.

Real Estate Transactions

Selected Study Aids for Help Understanding Real Estate Transactions

• Real Estate Finance Law (hornbook)
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this treatise provides coverage on the law of mortgages, including the mortgagor-mortgagee relationship prior to foreclosure; mortgage substitutes; transfers by the mortgagor; transfers by the mortgagee; payment and prepayment; the foreclosure process; deficiency judgments and anti-deficiency regulation; priority issues; governmental intervention in the mortgage market; and financing real estate construction. This update includes: a thorough and up-to-date revision of the material on judicial and nonjudicial foreclosure; new material on “short sales” and “loss mitigation;” a comprehensive revision of the material on securitization and the ownership, transfer, and enforcement of securitized mortgage loans; a comprehensive revision of materials on governmental intervention in the mortgage market, including new material on the impacts of the Dodd-Frank Act; discussion of recent cases and theories on the application of the “disparate impact” test in racially discriminatory mortgage lending; a thorough and functional restructuring of the material on bankruptcy law and its impact on mortgagees in Chapters 7, 11, 12 and 13 proceedings; discussion of recent judicial authority on priority issues; and judicial discussion and application of the principles in the Restatement (Third) of Property: Mortgages.
• Real Estate Transactions CALI Lessons
  • CALI currently offers many interactive exercises for Real Estate Transactions students. You will need to set up a password to use CALI online. To set up a username and password, you will be asked to enter UC Law’s authorization code. UC Law students can get this code from any reference librarian.
• Real Estate Transactions: Examples & Explanations
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library, this text begins with residential transactions and proceeds to more complex commercial transactions. It discusses the various actors playing a role in these transactions and presents them chronologically in the order in which they are likely to appear. Hypothetical problems and explanations of those problems are provided.
• Understanding Modern Real Estate Transactions
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, Understanding Modern Real Estate Transactions covers issues in residential real estate transactions and commercial real estate transactions. This treatise provides case analysis, focusing on the cases relevant to modern real estate. Numerous simple hypotheticals throughout the text explain the more complicated theories and rules.

Selected Study Aids for Real Estate Transactions Exam Review and Preparation

• Black Letter Outline on Land Transactions and Finance
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this outline provides law students with basic principles and issues of the law surrounding land transactions and finance. The book covers: purchase agreements, conveyances and titles, real estate finance, mortgage substitutes, rights and duties before foreclosure, impacts of bankruptcy on the mortgagee, transfers by the mortgagors and mortgagees, mortgage debt foreclosure priority problems, government involvement in the mortgage market, alternative mortgages, condominiums, and cooperatives.
• Emanuel Law Outlines: Real Estate
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library, the authors have written this Emanuel Law Outline with two primary objectives in mind. First, they provide clear, concise statements of the relevant legal rules and principles. Real estate law has a special vocabulary of its own that you must master. The chapters and the glossary in your Emanuel Law Outline will supply you with definitions of all the key concepts. It will also give you a framework that will make it easier to understand the substantive law of real estate. Their second objective relates to the lawyering process. In addition to laying out the basic substantive law, they describe the market context for real estate transactions. They explain what the buyer, seller, lender, borrower, and other participants are hoping to achieve as they enter into deals. They indicate the types of problems that parties to real estate transactions and their lawyers regularly confront. We also tell you about the lawyer’s role in the real world as a planner, drafter, negotiator, risk manager, and problem solver.

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Secured Transactions

Selected Study Aids for Help Understanding Secured Transactions

• Article 9 Plainly Stated
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, Article Nine Plainly Stated takes each section of the statute and changes it into commonly understood language. The book provides additional explanation and examples that clarify what the statute is trying to say. The authors of Article Nine Plainly Stated have been teaching the course for more than 40 years collectively and have experienced the angst of both students and practitioners as they grapple with its complexities.
• Secured Transactions CALI Lessons
  • CALI currently offers a number of interactive exercises for students studying Secured Transactions. You will need to set up a password to use CALI online. To set up a username and password, you will be asked to enter UC Law’s authorization code. UC Law students can get this code from any reference librarian.
• Secured Transactions: Examples & Explanations
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library subscription, this text provides students with a conversational, informative guide to the Uniform Commercial Code Article 9. It teaches the rules and policies of the law governing secured transactions while exposing students to broader issues of legal process. Diagrams and visual aids help students make sense of Article 9. Analysis is first provided for a topic and then examples are given to help students understand the analysis. A series of problems at the end of each section or chapter assist you in testing your understanding. Answers are provided for these problems.
• Understanding Secured Transactions
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, the sixth edition of this treatise thoroughly incorporates and explains the 2022 Amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code. These amendments created a new Article 12 governing the holding and transfer of digital assets such as virtual currencies and non-fungible tokens.Significant portions of Article 9, the main subject of the book, were amended to facilitate the use of these assets as collateral for loans and other obligations. In describing these amendments, this edition explains inherently complex topics related to emerging technologies clearly, so that those without a background in technology may readily understand them. The new edition also expands its coverage of existing concepts, providing numerous examples to help the reader apply legal principles to many different types of commercial finance transactions. The chapter on the effects of bankruptcy on secured transactions has been thoroughly revised and expanded.

Selected Study Aids for Secured Transactions Exam Review & Preparation

• Gilbert Law Summaries on Secured Transactions
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this outline discusses coverage of Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Article 9 and the creation of a security interest, including attachment, security agreements, value, and the debtor’s rights in the collateral. Also included are perfection, filing, priorities, bankruptcy proceedings and Article 9, default proceedings, and bulk transfers. It includes eight exam questions and answers.
• The Glannon Guide to Secured Transactions
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library subscription, this book includes brief explanatory text about the topic under discussion, followed by one or two multiple-choice questions. After each question, the author explains how the correct choice was chosen. A more challenging final question in each chapter illustrates a more sophisticated problem in the area under discussion. Exam-taking pointers are interspersed within the substantive text.
• Questions and Answers: Secured Transactions
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this study guide uses 275 multiple-choice and short-answer questions to test your knowledge of UCC Article 9 (as most recently revised by the so-called 2010 amendments) and its occasional intersection with other sources of law such as the Federal Tax Lien Act and the Bankruptcy Code. Each multiple-choice question is accompanied by a detailed answer that indicates which of four options is the best answer and explains why that option is better than the other three options. Each short-answer question (designed to be answered in no more than fifteen minutes) is followed by a thoughtful, yet brief, model answer. The questions are arranged by topic, and the study guide includes a “final exam.” Q&A: Secured Transactions, Third Edition also includes a comprehensive topical index.

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Wills & Estates

Selected Study Aids for Help Understanding Wills & Estates Law

• Wills, Trusts, & Estates CALI Lessons
  • CALI currently offers many interactive exercises for Estate Planning students. You will need to set up a password to use CALI online. To set up a username and password, you will be asked to enter UC Law’s authorization code. UC Law students can get this code from any reference librarian.
• Examples & Explanations for Wills, Trusts, and Estates
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library, this text covers intestate succession, wills, trusts, estate administration, nonprobate assets, wealth transfer taxation, disability and death planning (including elder law concerns), and malpractice and professional responsibility to augment Wills, Trusts, and Estates and related courses that expose students to estate planning, decedents’ estates, and trusts. Analysis is first provided for a topic and then examples are given to help students understand the analysis. A series of problems at the end of each section or chapter assist you in testing your understanding. Answers are provided for these problems
• Understanding Trusts & Estates
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this text discusses foundational principles of estates and trusts. Each case cited includes a brief factual description and extensive footnotes direct the reader to other sections of the book and related cases. Updates include coverage of electronic wills, new uniform act treatment of the parent-child relationship and unmarried cohabitants, directed trusts and trust protectors, and the uniform power of appointment act.
• Wills, Trusts and Estates Including Taxation and Future Interests
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this hornbook covers intestate succession, wills, nonprobate mechanisms, trusts, fiduciary administration, and choice of law. The book includes the very latest hot topics including electronic wills, trust decanting, directed trusts, asset protection trusts, and planning for modern families. The book incorporates the most recent provisions of the Uniform Probate Code, the Uniform Trust Code, and the many other uniform laws relating to the donative transfer of wealth. The book also includes an overview of the federal transfer tax laws. An essential guide for students and practitioners.

Selected Study Aids for Wills & Estate Law Exam Review and Preparation

• Exam Pro on Wills, Trusts, and Estates
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this book contains sample tests that cover an entire wills, trusts, and estates course as well as mini exams that cover discrete topics such as intestacy and future interests. The book also covers the Uniform Probate Code and general common law principles. A detailed answer key explains why the correct answer is the best choice and why other answers are not.
• Exam Pro Workbook on Estates and Future Interests
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this title provides a basic introduction to estates and future interests law. Designed to offer solid knowledge of the area’s central concepts, it guides readers through a series of increasingly complex conveyances. The workbook begins with an analysis of the fee simple estate and builds sequentially toward more complicated interests and conveyances. The information proceeds from the simple to more complex, later problems building on the successful command of earlier material. Each problem is followed not only by that problem’s answer but also by a complete analysis of how the answer was derived. The workbook also contains an extensive glossary, summary charts, and a set of review problems that test the reader’s developing mastery of the material.
• Friedman’s Wills, Trusts, and Estates
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library, this text features long essay questions as well as some that are relatively short and medium-length, giving you great practice in the length and variation of questions on the final. Test your knowledge of key concepts and rules with comprehensive essay and multiple-choice questions. Find insight into what professors look for when grading.
• A Student’s Guide to Estates in Land and Future Interests
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this guide facilitates the understanding of complex materials from Property courses. Chronologically organized material familiarizes students with basic concepts and necessary technical vocabulary. The authors graphically explain complex concepts, and provide extensive problem and answer sets. Topics include basic possessory estates, remainders and executory interests in response to the statute of uses, modifications of the common law scheme, and interesting complexities and modern changes.

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