Study Aids for the 1st Week of Fall 2025 Exams

Worried about exams? The Law Library can help! Check out our selected study aids for the first week of exams: Civil Procedure, Advertising Law, Business Associations, Evidence, Environmental Law I, Immigration Law, International Criminal Law, Labor Law, Legal Ethics, and Patent Law.

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• Civil Procedure CALI Lessons
  • CALI offers many interactive exercises for Civil Procedure 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.
• Civil Procedure (Hornbook)
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this text provides insight into the laws governing all of the major steps in the civil litigation process, starting with jurisdiction, venue, and ascertaining the governing law, and moving through pleading, joinder, discovery, pretrial management and adjudication, trials, appeals, and the effect and enforcement of judgments. Class actions and other forms of complex, multiparty litigation, as well as Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), are also covered. This text addresses the major themes underlying the various rules and procedures.
• Civil Procedure: Examples & Explanations
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library subscription, this book provides introductions to the principles of civil procedure, together with examples that illustrate how these principles apply in typical cases. Clear introductions and explanations cover all aspects of the first-year course including the areas of res judicata, collateral estoppel, personal and subject matter jurisdiction, and three chapters on various aspects of the Erie doctrine. 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 Civil Procedure
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this well-established treatise is premised on the assumption that the key to understanding the principles of civil procedure is to know why: why the principles were created and why they are invoked. The treatise is written to answer these questions as it lays out the basic principles of civil procedure. Although they discuss important civil procedure cases in the text, thus supporting the most widely used civil procedure casebooks using these same cases, they also provide useful references to secondary sources and illustrative cases for the reader who wants to explore further.

• Acing Civil Procedure
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this book uses a checklist format to lead students through the questions they need to ask and answer to fully analyze the legal questions they are trying to resolve. It assembles the different issues, presenting a clear guide to procedural analysis that students can draw upon when writing their exams. Other study aids provide sample problems, but this book offers a systematic approach to problem solving.
• The Glannon Guide to Civil Procedure
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library subscription, this book provides a short review of basic topics in Civil Procedure, organized around the theme of multiple-choice questions. In each chapter, the individual sections explain fundamental principles of a topic—such as stream-of-commerce jurisdiction, joinder under Rule 14, or the requirements for res judicata—and illustrate them with one or two multiple-choice questions. After each question, the correct answer is revealed and explained and the author discusses why the wrong answers are wrong.
• Questions and Answers: Civil Procedure
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this study guide uses over 300 multiple-choice and short-answer questions to test student knowledge of the nature and operation of the rules that govern procedure in the federal courts in the United States. 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.

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Advertising Law involves a combination of types of law so you may find yourself needing to look at study aids for torts, copyright, constitutional law, contracts, intellectual property, and more.

• Mastering Trademark and Unfair Competition Law
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this updated study aid covers trademark rights, federal registration processes, and procedures before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB). It also delves into trademark infringement, defenses, remedies, and the complex issue of trademark dilution. The edition analyzes key TTAB and U.S. Supreme Court decisions from 2014 to 2023 that have significantly shaped trademark law and incorporates crucial cases like B&B Hardware, Inc. v. Hargis Industries, Inc. on the TTAB's decisions' precedential impact; Matal v. Tam and Iancu v. Brunetti on First Amendment challenges to the Lanham Act; USPTO v. Booking.com B.V. on "generic.com" names' trademark eligibility; Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil, Inc. on profit recovery standards in infringement cases; and VIP Products v. Jack Daniel's on parody product protection.
• Right of Publicity in a Nutshell
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this study aid will orient and acclimate the reader to the structure, public policy, claims, issues, and defenses of right of publicity law that regulates the use of celebrity names, images, and likenesses. The guide will teach you the vocabulary to use when consulting with lawyers, clients, accountants, financial planners, and insurers in the arts, entertainment, and sports fields. The book covers the concept of a right of publicity, the origin and distinctions between privacy and publicity law, the modern right of privacy, the theory and policy supporting the right of publicity, the requirements of a right of publicity action, the post-mortem right of publicity, copyright preemption and the effect of licensing, the federal false endorsement and false designation of origin claims, fair use of celebrity names, images, and likenesses, and the future of the right of publicity.
• Social Media Law in a Nutshell
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this study aid is a wide-ranging look of how the social media transformation has impacted various legal fields. From marketing to employment to torts to criminal law to copyright and beyond, virtually every legal field has been changed by social media. By looking at high level concerns and example cases, Social Media Law in a Nutshell attempts to give practitioners exposure to social media issues and concerns so they can better advise clients and approach the new social media world with their legal eyes opened to new and old risks alike. The second addition covers new cases, regulations, and guidance from government regulators in the social media space.

• Acing Intellectual Property
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this study aid uses outline-like checklists to lead law students through the analytical steps necessary to analyze intellectual property issues. The book covers trademark, patent, copyright, and trade secret law. Each chapter begins with a brief review of the important rules and concepts that govern a particular area of intellectual property law. The review material is followed by a checklist that provides students with a clear roadmap for answering intellectual property questions. Each chapter concludes with practice problems and solutions that illustrate how students can use the checklist to analyze intellectual property issues.
• Emanuel Law Outlines for Contracts
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library, this title covers offer and acceptance, consideration, promises, mistake, parole evidence, breach of contract, anticipatory repudiation, statute of frauds, remedies, impossibility, miscellaneous defenses, warranties, and discharge of contracts. Each title includes both capsule and detailed versions of the critical issues and key topics you must know to master the course. Also included are exam questions with model answers, an alpha-list of cases, and a cross reference table of cases for all of the leading casebooks.
• Questions and Answers: The First Amendment
  • Available via Lexis Nexis study aid subscription, this study guide on the First Amendment includes over 150 multiple-choice and short-answer questions arranged topically for ease of use during the semester, plus an additional set of questions comprising a comprehensive "practice exam." For each multiple-choice question, Professors Weaver and Araiza provide 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, Professors Weaver and Araiza provide a thoughtful, comprehensive, yet brief model answer.

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• Agency, Partnerships, and LLCs: Examples & Explanations
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library subscription, this text is written by the professor who drafted the uniform limited partnership act and co-drafted the newest uniform limited liability company act. It provides in-depth treatment of limited liability companies (LLCs) and limited liability partnerships (LLPs), including a discussion of the newest Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. It contains updated agency materials that fully integrate the recently finalized Restatement (Third) of Agency. It has refined its coverage of general partnership law to reflect the ascendancy of the Revised Uniform Partnership Act (RUPA) and revised coverage of limited partnership law to reflect the increasing acceptance of the 2001 version of the Uniform Limited Partnership Act. It also includes analysis of issues unique to limited liability companies. 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.
• Business Associations CALI Lessons
  • CALI currently offers many interactive exercises for Business Associations 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.
• Business Organizations Law (Hornbook)
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this Hornbook is thoroughly updated to include recent U.S. Supreme Court, Delaware and other leading decisions and regulatory developments (for example, the most recent version of the Model Business Corporation Act as well as the Delaware statute) that impact the conduct of corporate affairs including fiduciary obligations and duties in corporate transactions, governance, and management of corporations and LLCs, as well as benefit corporations, including the landscape of securities fraud suits in the federal courts, new discussions of unincorporated forms of business, insightful explanations of such news-making issues as corporate governance and director liabilities, and coverage of LLCs and LLPs.
• Mastering Corporations and Other Business Entities
  • Available via the LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this study aid covers agency principles, partnership law, limited liability partnerships and companies, corporations, fiduciary duties, shareholder rights and remedies, securities fraud, and changes in corporate control. 

• Acing Business Associations
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this book provides an explanation of corporations, agency and partnership, and the other subjects addressed in most Business Associations courses. To accompany its explanations, the guide utilizes a checklist format to lead students through questions they need to ask and issues they need to address, to fully evaluate the agency, partnership or corporations, problems they will face when studying this subject.
• Exam Pro on Business Associations, Objective
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, Exam Pro-Objective on Business Associations is a study aid that helps law students prepare to take their Business Associations exam. Taking the sample objective exams and using the corresponding answers and analysis provides students with a more thorough understanding of Business Associations and a better understanding of how to take exams.
• Corporations and Other Business Entities CrunchTime
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library, this study aid provides flow charts, capsule summaries, exam tips, short answer exam questions, multiple choice questions, and essay questions with model answers.
• Questions and Answers: Business Associations
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this study guide includes over 190 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.”

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Environmental Law CALI Lessons

CALI offers many interactive exercises for Environmental 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.

• Environmental Law: Examples & Explanations
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library, this text provides students with a summary of topics and issues in Environmental Law, Energy Law, Climate Change Law, and Land-Use Law. It includes new Supreme Court decisions and developments on requirements for standing to bring environmental litigation; more limited Supreme Court Chevron deference to the E.P.A.; new Supreme Court decisions in Hughes v. Talen, Michigan v. E.P.A, and Murr v. Wisconsin; new treatment of lack of any private-party rights of action in environmental law; new material on environmental repercussions of “fracking” and the law; new material on protecting public drinking water supplies in both riparian and prior appropriation state law systems; the most recent cases interpreting the extent of “waters of the United States;” legal treatment of the Clean Power Plan, now enjoined by the Supreme Court; a complete update of new legal environmental issues regulating the nuclear power fleet in the United States; detailed treatment of pending nuisance suits by cities against oil companies for climate change damages related to rises in sea level; and coverage of the Paris Agreement of 2015 and climate change.
• Environmental Law and Policy (Concepts & Insights series)
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this text is a concise treatment of environmental law. The authors provide a broad conceptual overview of environmental law while also explaining the major statutes and cases. The updated text also describes initiatives launched by the Trump administration. The first part of the book provides an engaging discussion of the major themes and issues that cross-cut environmental law. The second part of the book examines the substance of environmental law, with separate sections on each of the major statutes. The third part of the book describes natural resources law, discussing endangered species conservation, wetlands protection, water and energy issues. Part four addresses environmental impact statements and the National Environmental Policy Act.
• Understanding Environmental Law
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this Understanding treatise provides a comprehensive overview of environmental and land use law in the United States. Most of the content addresses the most seminal and widely litigated federal environmental statutes, which have served as the template for the majority of state environmental laws. However, the discussion includes salient state laws when they help to inform particular topics. Early chapters provide a basic summary of the building blocks of environmental law: its constitutional underpinning; federal versus state regulatory authority; common law antecedents; and how the process for the environmental review of government (typically agency) actions operates. Later chapters have been revised to address updated developments involving air pollution and controls, the Clean Water Act, Hazardous Waste regulations and cleanups, and various statutes governing classes of chemicals that collectively can be termed toxic substances. The discussion of noise regulation has been revised to address an increasingly pernicious but often underappreciated kind of emissions that historically had been relegated to state and local land use controls. Climate change is increasingly at the forefront of policy discussions, as are evolving ideas about the responsibility of corporations for including environmental goals in their business models and performance. Hence, these topics, domestically as well as internationally, have been expanded where relevant in this fourth edition. Finally, the new Chapter 14, largely replacing that of earlier editions, directs the readers’ attention to emerging areas of environmental concern that increasingly demand regulatory attention.

• Black Letter Outline on Environmental Law
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this Outline summarizes the basic black letter rules of Environmental Law in a way that allows students to appreciate how different parts of their course material fit together. The Outline covers approaches to environmental regulations, constitutional issues in Environmental Law, the National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act and other toxic substances statutes. The Outline also discusses the complex intersection of law, sciences such as biology, geology, and engineering, and important economic, ethical, and social issues. It also includes a glossary of environmental terms and practice exam questions.
• Emanuel Law Outlines for Environmental Law
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library, this outline covers common law theories and environmental litigation, the judicial role in environmental litigation, the administrative process, constitutional limits on environmental regulation, the National Environmental Policy Act, The Clean Air Act, The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, control of toxic substances, land use, and international environmental law. The text offers quizzes and essay exam questions and answers.
• Questions and Answers: Environmental Law
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this study guide uses multiple-choice and short-answer questions to test your students’ knowledge of environmental law doctrine. 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.

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• Evidence CALI Lessons
  • CALI currently offers many interactive exercises for Evidence 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.
• Evidence Law, a Student’s Guide to the Law of Evidence As Applied in American Trials (Hornbook)
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this treatise explains the Federal Rules, selected state variations, major cases, essential doctrines, and important underlying policies. Frequent practical examples drawn from courtroom practice introduce students to courtroom procedure, provide a context in which evidence problems arise, and acquaint them with the language of the courtroom.
• Evidence: Examples & Explanations
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library subscription, this text covers the Federal Rules of Evidence and includes the latest Supreme Court cases. It also analyzes the ebb and flow of Confrontation Clause jurisprudence. 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.
• A Student’s Guide to Hearsay
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, the fifth edition of A Student’s Guide to Hearsay focuses on the Federal Rules of Evidence, breaking down the hearsay rule into its elements and explaining them in straightforward language. It does the same for each of the 29 exceptions to the hearsay rule. The book covers the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause and includes a proposed amendment to the Rules. It also explains related subjects: what a grand jury is and how it operates; offers of proof, order of proof, burdens of proof; conditional relevancy and conditional admissibility; and privileged communications.

• Acing Evidence
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, Acing Evidence is a study aid that helps law students prepare to take their Evidence exam. Providing many helpful examples and employing checklists at the end of every chapter, Acing Evidence presents an organized way to analyze evidence problems and spot hidden issues. The third edition adds new examples and reflects changes in the Federal Rules of Evidence.
• Cracking the Evidence Code (Comprehensive): 300 Multiple Choice Questions for Law Students
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this collection provides 300 multiple choice questions that comprehensively cover all aspects of the Rules of Evidence. Each question is designed to test your understanding of key concepts, exceptions, and applications that commonly appear on exams and in courtroom practice.
• The Glannon Guide to Evidence
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library subscription, this study aid provides an explanation of the Federal Rules of Evidence, with each chapter corresponding to the 10 main articles of evidence. Substantial text is spent on Hearsay, Character evidence, and Impeachment. Each chapter begins with an explanation of the rules and follows with multiple choice questions applying the rules to hypotheticals. An analysis of the correct answers is also provided.
• Questions and Answers: Evidence
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this Q & A includes over 260 multiple-choice and short-answer questions, arranged topically for ease of use during the semester, plus an additional set of 50 “practice exam” questions. For each multiple-choice question, there is 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.

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• Crimmigration in a Nutshell
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this text guides the reader through the analysis required for complex immigration cases, as well as the best practices for representing noncitizens who are facing criminal charges, have been convicted of criminal activity, or are suspected of having engaged in criminal activity. The text includes discussion of the relevant sections of the Immigration and Nationality Act as well as detailed explanations of the categorical, modified categorical, and circumstance-specific approaches used to analyze whether a criminal statute will trigger immigration consequences. Readers will be introduced to immigration concepts like inadmissibility, deportability, crimes involving moral turpitude, and aggravated felonies. Chapters on immigration detention, preserving eligibility for relief from removal, federal immigration crimes, post-conviction relief, and the obligations of criminal counsel will give the larger context. Practical considerations for both criminal defense counsel and immigration attorneys are woven in throughout.
• Immigration Law and Procedure in a Nutshell
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this compact title offers a thorough overview of the history, constitutional basis, statutory structure, regulatory provisions, administrative procedure, and ethical principles related to immigration law and practice.
• Understanding Immigration Law
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, the third edition of Understanding Immigration Law lays out the basics of U.S. immigration law in an accessible way to newcomers to the field. It offers background about the intellectual, historical, and constitutional foundations of U.S. immigration law. The book also identifies the factors that have historically fueled migration to the United States, including the economic “pull” of jobs and family in the United States and the “push” of economic hardship, political instability, and other facts of life in the sending country. Each chapter has been updated to analyze the unprecedented number of immigration enforcement measures—and many simply unprecedented measures—taken by the Trump administration.

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• International Criminal Law: Intersections and Contradictions (Concepts & Insights)
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this primer presents the field of International Criminal Law (ICL), providing a concise summary of key ICL doctrines while also raising novel and interdisciplinary perspectives. Part I introduces the domain of ICL. Specific chapters are devoted to the different strands of the field's history; the web of institutions that apply and interpret ICL; how the rules of international law generally, and ICL in particular, are created; theories that attempt to explain why certain crimes are subject to international regulation; and the unique challenges posed by the principle of legality within ICL. Part II is devoted to the intersecting elements of the major crimes recognized by international law (war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, aggression, and terrorism), the unique development of modes of liability under international law (including superior responsibility, complicity, co-perpetration, and joint criminal enterprise), and some of the defenses that might be deployed to block or mitigate liability (immunities, amnesties, and excuses). The text ends with two synthesis chapters. The first provides an in-depth case study of Syria to illustrate the way in which members of the international community can attempt to invoke, and block access to, the architecture of ICL and related accountability mechanisms. The second revisits some of the fundamental objectives underlying ICL, the more trenchant critiques of the project of international justice, and the breadth of creativity underlying alternative mechanisms developed under the cognate fields of transitional justice and conflict resolution.
• International Criminal Law in a Nutshell
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this text is intended as an introduction for students taking a first course in international criminal law as well as practitioners with little or no familiarity with the field. After a brief introduction to the history of international criminal law (from its origins through Nuremburg to the ad hoc tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda), it summarizes basic principles of international accountability (such as the doctrine of “legality”) and concepts of international criminal jurisdiction (including “universal” jurisdiction). Several chapters focus on the International Criminal Court, in particular its substantive jurisdiction (genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and aggression), modes of liability and available defenses. Additional chapters cover the purposes and procedures of extradition (and its alternatives, such as “rendition”) and mutual legal assistance (obtaining evidence abroad for use in criminal cases). Attention is also given to the major “transnational crimes,” including terrorism, corruption, trafficking and organized crime.
• Understanding International Criminal Law
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this treatise is divided into four parts: The first part of Understanding International Criminal Law provides a general overview of international criminal law, including the sources of such law, important international criminal law doctrines and concepts, definitions of key terms that appear throughout the book, and various principles of jurisdiction that form the basis for the application of domestic and international law. The second part of the book focuses on a crafted selection of areas of international criminal law. While not exhaustive, the authors have provided explanation and analysis of crimes that cover a wide array of topics that will introduce the reader to many of the most important, timely, and developing areas of international criminal law. The selected topics include developing areas such as computer and internet crimes and human trafficking, and older, more traditional areas such as piracy, narcotics trafficking, and terrorism. The book provides materials on both violent and non-violent crimes. The third part of Understanding International Criminal Law covers procedural issues. This portion of the book considers the extraterritorial application of the U.S. Constitution, including the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments, immunities from jurisdiction, international evidence gathering procedures, obtaining people from abroad, including through abduction, and post-conviction issues such as prisoner transfer. The final part of this treatise introduces the reader to the four crimes of most concern to the international community--Aggression, Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, and War Crimes. The book also examines the various courts and mechanisms used to bring those accused of these atrocities to justice, beginning with the Nuremberg and Tokyo precedents. Examination of these early forms of international tribunal are followed by materials examining more recent courts and mechanisms, including the International Criminal Court, Ad Hoc tribunals, hybrid tribunals and other creative variations.

• Emanuel Law Outlines for International Law
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library, this outline covers the concept of Public International law, sources of International Law, International Law and Municipal law, States, State Jurisdiction, IGOs, International Dispute Settlement, International Human Rights Law, Armed Conflict, Law of the Sea, Air and Space Law, International Environmental Law, and International Criminal Law.
• Questions and Answers: International Law
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this text offers multiple choice questions and a final practice essay exam covering a wide array of areas likely to be addressed in any International Law course. The areas covered include: Principles of International Law; Jurisdiction; Sources of International Law; The United Nations; The Use of Force and Humanitarian Law; International Criminal and Human Rights Law; Indigenous Peoples; International Environmental Law; The Law of the Sea; and International Trade Law.
• Quick Review of International Law
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this book provides a foundation for students studying international law who need to supplement knowledge from their courses or obtain a quick overview to prepare for an exam. The topics covered range from the historic foundations of international law (including an overview of the subject's founders) to the laws of wars and use of force. The book contains information on wars ranging from the 100-years war to Vietnam and the one in Iraq. The book provides a comprehensive overview of state formation and obligations, including state requirements to treat all individuals (citizens, immigrants, and aliens) humanely. Students who review the state responsibility chapter will obtain an approach to writing essay questions on international law or briefs for international tribunals.

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• Labor Law (Concepts & Insights)
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this one-volume, concise treatise provides a comprehensive overview of federal labor law, focusing on employee rights, union representation campaigns, the collective bargaining process, and internal governance for labor organizations. It reflects developments from the National Labor Relations Board and federal courts through the end of the Biden Administration, including changes in the regulation of representation elections, workplace speech, and employer disciplinary policies.
• Labor Law in a Nutshell
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this comprehensive guide reviews labor relations law in the United States from its origins to the creation of key statutory protections and the up to date developments of the modern-day National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Expert commentary offers insight into primary legal issues such as union organizing, picketing, employer responses, the duty to bargain, and enforcement of collective bargaining agreements and their arbitration provisions.
• Understanding Labor Law
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this Understanding treatise examines the multifaceted and complex area of private-sector labor law. The treatise is more concise than a casebook but contains more citation to cases and other authorities than other labor law overviews. It is comprehensive enough to be adopted and used by law and other professors as the primary textbook for a labor law course, yet succinct enough to be used as an aid for those seeking to understand dense material. The treatise focuses on private sector labor relationships, dealing primarily with the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, and its interpretation and application by federal courts and the National Labor Relations Board. Organized in a format consistent with the organization of most labor law courses, the book is comprehensive, containing up-to-date chapters on exceptions to employment-at-will and international labor law as well as on traditional labor law topics. Each chapter concludes with reader-friendly "Chapter Highlights," summarizing the major doctrines discussed in the chapter.

• Gilbert Law Summaries on Labor Law
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, the topics covered in this Labor Law summary are statutory foundations of present labor law (including National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), Taft-Hartley, Norris-LaGuardia Act, and Landrum-Griffin Act), organizing campaigns, selection of the bargaining representative, collective bargaining (including negotiating the agreement, lockouts, administering the agreement, grievances and arbitration), strikes, boycotts, and picketing. Other topics include concerted activity protected under the NLRA addressing newer issues regarding email solicitations and employer policy and work rules violations, "right to work" laws, discipline of union members, election of union officers, and corruption.

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• Legal Ethics / Professional Responsibility CALI Lessons
  • CALI offers a number of interactive exercises for students studying Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility. 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.
• Legal Ethics, Professional Responsibility, and the Legal Profession (Hornbook)
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this new Hornbook on professional responsibility provides both a snapshot of ongoing systemic changes and a thorough examination of the fundamentals of lawyer and judicial ethics. As a multi-dimensional work by scholarly experts in several fields, the Hornbook (1) begins with the changing environment in which legal services are provided in the modern economy; (2) continues with a theoretical grounding of legal ethics in moral philosophy; (3) offers empirical evidence and discussion about professional formation and moral development; (4) provides a comprehensive analysis of the law of lawyer ethics; (5) includes a rich discussion of the modern law of legal malpractice, and (6) concludes with exploration of the rules of judicial ethics.
• Professional Responsibility: Examples & Explanations
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library, this text covers the whole field of professional responsibility, focusing not only on the ABA Model Rules, but on the often-complex relationship between the rules and doctrines of agency, tort, contract, evidence, and constitutional law. Beginning with the formation of the attorney-client relationship, the book proceeds through topics including attorneys’ fees, malpractice and ineffective assistance of counsel, confidentiality and privilege rules, conflicts of interest, witness perjury and litigation misconduct, advertising and solicitation, admission to practice, and the organization of the legal profession. Coverage includes all subjects that are tested on the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE), including: A chapter on judicial ethics, a subject tested on the MPRE and not often covered thoroughly, if at all, in law school professional responsibility courses. Updated discussion and examples based on recent developments in the law, including the ABA’s simplification of the rules on advertising and solicitation, new Model Rule 8.4(g) on discrimination in the practice of law, the California Supreme Court’s Sheppard Mullin opinion on advance waivers of conflicts, and continuing developments in the impact of technology on the practice of law. A series of problems at the end of each section or chapter assist you in testing your understanding. Answers are provided for these problems. More MPRE-style multiple-choice questions in the Examples.
• Understanding Lawyers’ Ethics
  • Available via Lexis Nexis study aid subscription, this Understanding treatise analyzes the fundamental issues of lawyers’ ethics and the ABA’s Model Rules. It is designed to facilitate a real understanding of legal rules as distinguished from a superficial familiarity with them by challenging the reader to test their understanding of the legal rules against the reader’s own moral standards and reasoned judgment. The fifth edition includes new chapters on Lawyers’ Ethics in a Time of Crisis and Counseling Clients, Coaching Witnesses, and Cross-Examining to Discredit the Truth, and substantial updates on Judicial Ethics and more.

• Exam Pro on Professional Responsibility
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this book provides practice final exam questions and answers pertaining to professional responsibility rules and their proper application. This text has 25 practice questions and 3 exams with answers and explanations.
• Glannon Guide to Professional Responsibility
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library, this study aid covers all heavily tested subjects on the MPRE and taught in a Professional Responsibility course. It includes a chapter devoted to the Code of Judicial Conduct and updated questions to reflect recent ABA Ethics Opinions and Supreme Court decisions in this area.
• The Weekend MPRE: Complete Preparation for the MPRE in Only a Weekend's Time
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, the Weekend MPRE book and video course is designed to prepare users for the MPRE in a single weekend, primarily through thoughtful explanations of the most tested aspects of the rules of professional responsibility. It includes 14 videos, two practice exams, quizzes, and more.

More Study Aids for Legal Ethics

• Intellectual Property: Examples & Explanations
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library, this study guide provides students with a short account of the law, followed by a variety of concrete Examples & Explanations that help reinforce and give substance to the key rules and concepts in intellectual property law. It covers topics that range from copyrights, to patents, trademarks and trade secrets.
• Patent Law CALI Lessons
  • CALI currently offers many interactive exercises for Patent 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.
• Principles of Patent Law (Concise Hornbook)
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this study aid includes thoughtful analysis of the intricacies of the America Invents Act, in-depth discussion of nearly twenty recent Supreme Court decisions on patent law, and thorough treatment of all the leading Federal Circuit precedents. The volume also contains detailed materials on international issues, trade secret law, and specialized topics including plant patents, design patents and the Hatch-Waxman Act.
• Understanding Patent Law
  • Available via the LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this new edition included the rapidly evolving law concerning statutory subject matter, nonobviousness, and the application of the America Invents Act. This work covers the latest U.S. Supreme Court decisions, including SAS Institute v. Lancu, Oil States Energy Services v. Greene's Energy Group, Helsinn Healthcare v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, and WesternGeco v. ION Geophysical Corporation. The book also covers the major decisions of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Each chapter has been comprehensively updated to reflect those decisions that refine, explain, or modify the existing state of patent law. The Federal Circuit's Thaler opinion regarding artificial intelligence exclusion from inventorship is explained, the World Trade Organization's consideration of the treatment of intellectual property for the COVID-19 vaccines is discussed, and material that explains the European Union's Unitary Patent System has been added to provide real-world examples of the concepts covered in the fourth edition.

• Acing Intellectual Property
  • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription, this study aid uses outline-like checklists to lead law students through the analytical steps necessary to analyze intellectual property issues. The book covers trademark, patent, copyright, and trade secret law. Each chapter begins with a brief review of the important rules and concepts that govern a particular area of intellectual property law. The review material is followed by a checklist that provides students with a clear roadmap for answering intellectual property questions. Each chapter concludes with practice problems and solutions that illustrate how students can use the checklist to analyze intellectual property issues.
• Intellectual Property Crunchtime
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library, this CrunchTime covers intellectual property generally, trade secrets (status, ownership, and public policy); patents (novelty, non-obviousness); rights in undeveloped ideas; copyright (idea/expression, originality, infringement); trademark law (policies, registerd and common-law marks, origin, product feature trade dress; unfair competition; and federal and state law relationship.
• Questions and Answers: Trademark and Unfair Competition
  • Available via LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this study guide uses multiple-choice and short-answer questions to test your students' knowledge of trademark and unfair competition law doctrine. 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.

More Study Aids for Patent Law

Posted December 8, 2025 by Susan Boland

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