Study Aids

Study aids are designed to help you learn law school course content. Study aids can take the form of explanatory materials, commercial outlines, case summaries, audio lectures, flash cards, or sample exam questions. They can help you make sense of legal concepts, prepare for class, create course outlines, and study for exams. 

Use the links below for quick access:

• West Academic Study Aids
• Aspen Learning Library
• Lexis Digital Library
• CALI Tutorials
• Exams database

Study aids are available only to law students, faculty and staff.

Popular West Academic study aid series:

• Gilbert Law Summaries provide course outlines with black letter law, capsule summaries, and correlation charts to match pages to relevant casebooks. Also feature practice multiple-choice, true-false, and essay questions.
• Audio lectures include the Law School Legends and Sum and Substance series with 1-hour lectures by noted law school professors.
• Exam Pro includes sample exams, both multiple-choice and essay, with answer keys. 
• Flashcards help you test your knowledge of course material. Include answer explanations. 
• High Court Case Summaries provide briefs of major cases, keyed to textbooks.   
• Nutshells feature concise explanations of law school subjects in a readable format.
• Acing series synthesize course material and use checklist format to guide students in approaching law school exams.  

Create an individual account using your UC Davis email address to take notes, highlight, and view in ebook format.

See Access Content Offline for instructions on how to read or listen to West Academic materials offline. 

Popular Aspen Learning Library series:

• Examples & Explanations offer hypothetical questions and detailed explanations to test your knowledge of topics in law school courses.
• Emanuel Law Outlines include topics, cases and blackletter law for law school courses, with quizzes and essay questions.
• Emanuel Crunchtime features exam tips, capsule summaries, flow charts, and sample exam questions.
• Glannon Guides offer straightforward explanations of complex legal topics.
• In Other Words Audio & Video provide video and audio lectures by law professors and legal practitioners.

Register for an account using your UC Davis email address to access features such as highlighting, notetaking, etc.

Notable Lexis Digital Library series:

• Understanding series explains law school course subjects, with case references. 
• Question and Answer series features example exam questions, with answers. 

• CALI (Computer Assisted Legal Instruction) provides tutorials on topics included in the 1L/2L instruction. Contact a librarian at lawlibref@ucdavis.edu for an authorization code.

• Exams database (UC Davis Law Intranet) includes past exams submitted by law faculty. Note: not all faculty have submitted exams to this database.