Study Aids at the Julien and Virginia Cornell Library: Early Semester

Expert guidance on the important skill of drafting case briefs.

• High Court Case Summaries -- present the essential facts, issues, decision, and rational for each case in their casebook, helping students identify and understand the key take-aways. 
• Legalines -- provide authoritative, detail case briefs of any major case in a casebook, plus a review of black letter law.

• Hornbook Series -- Set the standard for scholarly, in depth legal analysis. The many footnotes to primary law and secondary sources are good starting point when conducting legal research. 
• Concise Hornbook Series -- a concise, well-organized conceptual overview of a field of law. 
• Concepts and Insights Series -- an outstanding series of mini-treatises by leading scholars that provides concise conceptual overviews of the major subjects. 
• Global Issues -- offer global perspective of the law. 

• Bridge to Practice Series -- case-filed based supplements with sets of simulations that give students the opportunity to learn essential lawyering skills. 
• Building Skills Series -- case studies to engage students beyond the core doctrinal instruction in a first-year course. 
• Developing Professional Skills Series -- supplemental texts designed to incorporate skills training in legal drafting, client interviewing and counseling, negotiation, advocacy, and policy-making into traditional doctrinal courses.