Selected Study Aids for Take Home Exams

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This blog post looks at selected study aids for the exams scheduled as a take-home this semester.

Advertising Law

Selected Study Aids for Help in Understanding Advertising Law

  • Intellectual Property: Examples & Explanations
    • Available via the Wolters Kluwer study aid subscription
    • 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.
  • Right of Publicity in a Nutshell
    • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription
    • Right of Publicity in a Nutshell 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.
  • Understanding Trademark Law
    • Available via Lexis OverDrive study aid subscription
    • This Understanding treatise is a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the law of trademarks and unfair competition. It provides a thorough introduction to the federal laws protecting registered trademarks and trade dress, as well as the broad array of federal and state unfair competition doctrines which protect unregistered trademarks and trade dress. Coverage includes the standards and procedures for obtaining federal registration, the rights and remedies available to owners of both registered and common law marks under federal and state law, and the full array of applicable defenses.

 

Selected Study Aids for Advertising Law Exam Review and Preparation

  • Black Letter Outline on Intellectual Property
    • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription
    • Black Letter Outlines contain outlines of particular areas of law, a capsule summary of each outline, practice examinations, and examples and review questions. This reference provides an overview of unfair trade practices, including the common-law and statutory basis of unfair competition, antitrust, consumer protection, regulated industries, and labor. Includes discussion of intellectual property, which is also composed of statutory and common-law elements. The text is a helpful resource for students studying business or commercial torts, intellectual property, trade regulation, unfair competition and unfair trade practices, and related subjects.
  • Intellectual Property Crunchtime
    • Available via the Wolters Kluwer study aid subscription
    • 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 Lexis OverDrive 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.

 

For More Study Aids Related to Advertising Law, see Intellectual Property and Torts

Child Protection Advocacy

Selected Study Aids for Help in Understanding Child Protection Advocacy

  • Family Law: Examples & Explanations
    • Available via the Wolters Kluwer study aid subscription
    • 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
    • As with the previous three editions, this book offers an interested reader insights into the ever-changing parameters of family law. Recent approaches to nonmarital cohabitations are discussed, premarital and marital agreements, surrogacy and assisted reproduction in the context of the 2017 Uniform Parentage Age, and the evolution of same-sex marriage after Obergefell v. Hodges. The division of marital property and the presumptive status of child support formulae are discussed, as is federal expansive control over collection procedures. Recent cases and federal and state statutes are provided as illustration and the best interests of the child are defined through cases illustrating custody, termination of parental rights, and the possibility of adoption. The book seeks to provide the reader with a grasp of what is currently the law and provide a glimpse into where the law may be going.
  • Understanding Juvenile Law by Martin R. Gardner
    • Available via Lexis OverDrive study aid subscription
    • This Understanding treatise discusses the various bodies of law in relation to a fundamental issue permeating the entire field of juvenile law: the extent to which the law should protect young people rather than recognize them as autonomous persons. While the law traditionally adopted a protectionist posture, recent legal developments appear to recognize autonomy rights of adolescents in certain contexts. These developments are praised by some commentators who advocate wholesale rejection of the paternalistic model in favor of a system that treats adolescents as full-fledged persons under the law.

 

Selected Study Aids for Child Protection Advocacy Exam Review and Preparation

  • Emanuel Law Outlines: Family Law
    • Available via the Wolters Kluwer study aid subscription
    • Family law is the body of law that regulates the family and its members. Historically, family law was regulated at the state level. Today, the federal government occupies an increasingly prominent role in family law. This book is designed to help you understand the importance of both state and federal regulation of this fascinating subject area. This outline covers marriage, divorce, custody, child abuse and neglect, adoption, and more. It includes exam questions and answers.
  • Questions and Answers: Family Law
    • Available via Lexis OverDrive 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.
  • Sum and Substance 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. It is designed to make the study of law clear and convenient, and it is designed to help students prepare for their law school exams. The main body is an outline of the substantive content that a student needs to prepare for a law school exam. The concise format provides a “Big Picture” overview allowing students to review the subject quickly prior to final exams.

 

For More Study Aids Related to Child Protection Advocacy, see Family Law

Employment Discrimination

Selected Study Aids for Help in Understanding Employment Discrimination

  • CALI Lessons on Employment Discrimination
    • Available via CALI
    • CALI currently offers many 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
    • Available via the Wolters Kluwer study aid subscription
    • 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 Discrimination (Hornbook)
    • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription
    • This book, written by Prof. Sperino, provides comprehensive treatment of the major federal employment discrimination statutes, focusing on Title VII, the ADEA, the ADA, and Section 1981. It discusses who is liable for discrimination and the people the statutes protect from discrimination. The book offers an extensive discussion of the frameworks for analyzing discrimination, including frameworks for individual disparate treatment, pattern or practice, harassment, disparate impact, and retaliation. One chapter focuses on religious accommodation and another chapter focuses on disability accommodation. The book also contains separate treatment of affirmative action. It also explores defenses to discrimination claims, the procedure for pursuing claims, and remedies. The book provides extensive discussion of canonical cases.
  • Understanding Employment Discrimination Law
    • Available via Lexis OverDrive study aid subscription
    • Employment discrimination law is like a huge jigsaw puzzle—albeit one with many missing and mismatched pieces, which are constantly being changed. The purpose of Understanding Employment Discrimination Law is to clarify the differences, uncertainty, and complexity of employment discrimination law.

 

More Employment Discrimination Study Aids

Family Law

Selected Study Aids for Help in Understanding Family Law

  • Family Law CALI Lessons
    • Available via CALI
    • 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 Wolters Kluwer study aid subscription
    • 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
    • As with the previous three editions, this book offers an interested reader insights into the ever-changing parameters of family law. Recent approaches to nonmarital cohabitations are discussed, premarital and marital agreements, surrogacy and assisted reproduction in the context of the 2017 Uniform Parentage Age, and the evolution of same-sex marriage after Obergefell v. Hodges. The division of marital property and the presumptive status of child support formulae are discussed, as is federal expansive control over collection procedures. Recent cases and federal and state statutes are provided as illustration and the best interests of the child are defined through cases illustrating custody, termination of parental rights, and the possibility of adoption. The book seeks to provide the reader with a grasp of what is currently the law and provide a glimpse into where the law may be going.
  • Understanding Family Law
    • Available via Lexis OverDrive 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 Wolters Kluwer study aid subscription
    • Family law is the body of law that regulates the family and its members. Historically, family law was regulated at the state level. Today, the federal government occupies an increasingly prominent role in family law. This book is designed to help you understand the importance of both state and federal regulation of this fascinating subject area. This outline covers marriage, divorce, custody, child abuse and neglect, adoption, and more. It includes exam questions and answers.
  • Questions and Answers: Family Law
    • Available via Lexis OverDrive 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.
  • Sum and Substance 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. It is designed to make the study of law clear and convenient, and it is designed to help students prepare for their law school exams. The main body is an outline of the substantive content that a student needs to prepare for a law school exam. The concise format provides a “Big Picture” overview allowing students to review the subject quickly prior to final exams.

 

More Family Law Study Aids

International Commercial Arbitration

Selected Study Aids for Help in Understanding International Commercial Arbitration

  • International Commercial Arbitration in a Nutshell
    • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription
    • This is a 1st edition of a Nutshell on an exceptionally topical subject. International Commercial Arbitration is a flourishing alternative to the litigation of transnational disputes in domestic courts. Unlike other subjects, it must deal with two interlocking international dispute resolution regimes: the complex international arbitral regime itself, together with the important role of courts in enforcing arbitration agreement, intervening in an ongoing arbitration, and conducting judicial review of the eventual awards.
  • Principles of International Litigation and Arbitration (Concise Hornbook)
    • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription
    • Principles of International Litigation and Arbitration, 2d is part of West Academic Publishing’s Concise Hornbook series. Its coverage commences with international dispute settlement Alternatives and Fundamentals, including Choice of Law, Choice of Forum and Forum Non Conveniens issues. Chapters 3 and 4 focus on International Commercial Arbitration and Foreign Investment Arbitration. International Business Litigation is examined in five chapters: Jurisdiction, Procedure, Sovereign Defenses, Enforcement of Judgments and the EU Litigation System. Chapter 10 finishes with Intergovernmental Trade Dispute Settlement. Principles of International Litigation and Arbitration, 2d contains considerable depth, analysis, citations and related documents.
  • Transnational Civil Litigation (Concepts & Insights) by George Rutherglen
    • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription
    • This text on transnational civil litigation organizes the subject around three basic concepts: national sovereignty, individual rights, and political accountability. After highlighting the unique problems of litigation across national boundaries, the book explores the essential role of individual rights, especially due process and substantive human rights. It then examines the role of the political branches of government in enacting the statutes and treaties that govern transnational litigation. These three concepts play out in the following chapters: Introductory chapters on jurisdiction in three different senses: personal jurisdiction; prescriptive jurisdiction (especially extraterritoriality); and federal subject-matter jurisdiction. A chapter on foreign sovereigns as litigants, concerned with sovereign immunity and the act of state doctrine. Two chapters on procedure in pending cases, one on service of process and discovery, and another on parallel proceedings, concerned with forum non conveniens, stays, and anti-suit injunctions. Two final chapters addressed to the resolution of disputes, through recognition of foreign judgments and enforcement of arbitration agreements and awards.

 

Mental Health Law I

Selected Study Aids for Help in Understanding Mental Health Law

  • Mental Health Law in a Nutshell
    • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription
    • Mental illness and intellectual disability (formerly called mental retardation) impact 20% of Americans, and have enormous personal, legal, and policy implications for patients, families, and society. This Nutshell introduces you to the broad range of criminal and civil issues in mental health law, including diagnosis of mental illness; expert testimony on mental health issues; civil commitment; competence to stand trial; the insanity defense; various competencies; ethical/legal issues facing mental health professionals, including informed consent, confidentiality, privilege, and malpractice; discrimination against persons with mental illness; financial and medical benefits for disabled persons.
  • Understanding Disability Law
    • Available via Lexis OverDrive study aid subscription
    • Understanding Disability Law discusses important statutory and constitutional issues relating to disability discrimination. It includes an analysis of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Americans with Disabilities Act, section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the Fair Housing Act Amendments, and other laws, as they relate to controversial issues of disability rights. The book discusses the leading cases on each of the major topics of disability law, and suggests ways of thinking about unresolved questions and debates over legal policy. It covers Constitutional law bearing on disability discrimination; The controversy over who is a person with a disability for purposes of federal statutes; Employment discrimination rights and remedies; Educational discrimination, including special education law and higher education for students with disabilities; Discrimination in public accommodations; Discrimination by federal, state, and local governments; and Disability discrimination related to housing, transportation, and telecommunications. This new third edition adds analysis of the Supreme Court’s recent Fry and Endrew F. decisions, discussion of the new developments in the litigation over the accessibility of currency for people with visual impairments, insights on the recent implementation of numerical targets for employment of people with disabilities by federal grantees and agencies, and more.

Public International Law

Selected Study Aids for Help in Understanding Public International Law

  • International Law CALI Lessons
    • Available via CALI
    • CALI currently offers many interactive exercises for Public International 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.
  • International Law: Examples & Explanations
    • Available via the Wolters Kluwer study aid subscription
    • Beginning with an introduction to the main principles and sources of international law, this study aid covers specific areas of international law, covering a wide array of topics from human rights and extradition, to the law of the sea and the laws of war. From start to finish this text offers a succinct but comprehensive overview of public international law.
  • Principles of International Law (Concise Hornbook)
    • Available via the West Academic study aid subscription
    • This fully-updated third edition provides a comprehensive survey of public international law, with useful references throughout to current events, classic and contemporary cases and scholarship. The first part of the book addresses how international law is created, interpreted and enforced; the second part focuses on the interface of international law and national law; and the final part covers key subject matter areas: human rights, injury to aliens, the law of the sea, international environmental law, international criminal law, and the use of force.
  • Understanding International Law
    • Available via Lexis OverDrive study aid subscription
    • This text explains what international law is, why it exists, and the basic subjects it covers. The law of treaties is given particular attention. Understanding International Law also provides introductory coverage of topics of current relevance, such as terrorism, international criminal law, use and applicability of international law in United States courts, and the law governing the use of military force.

 

Selected Study Aids for Public International Law Exam Review and Preparation

  • Questions and Answers: International Law
    • Available via Lexis OverDrive 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.
  • Sum and Substance 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.

 

Real Estate Transactions

Selected Study Aids for Help in 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
    • Available via CALI
    • 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 Wolters Kluwer study aid subscription
    • 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 Lexis OverDrive 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
    • Nelson, Whitman, Burkhart & Freyermuth’s Black Letter Outline on Land Transactions and Finance 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 Wolters Kluwer study aid subscription
    • We have written this Emanuel Law Outline with two primary objectives in mind. First, we 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.Our second objective relates to the lawyering process. In addition to laying out the basic substantive law, we describe the market context for real estate transactions. We explain what the buyer, seller, lender, borrower, and other participants are hoping to achieve as they enter into deals. We 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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