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About Law School Study Guide

Law School Study Guide is an independent study resource for U.S. law students and for people deciding whether to become one. It covers the first year and the upper-level courses one course at a time, and it also answers the questions that come before law school: the LSAT, admissions, and cost.

What you will find here

Each course has the same set of parts. A course guide shows how the subject fits together. A full outline gives the rules, elements, and exceptions. An attack outline gives you the checklist for the exam room. Case briefs explain the cases your professors assign, and a practice exam lets you test what you learned.

Skills pages explain how to brief a case, how to write an exam answer, and how to build an outline. Pre-law pages cover the LSAT, applications, and choosing a school.

Who writes it

The site is operated by AIXIS LLC, a Vermont limited liability company. It is not a law school, a law firm, or a bar-review company. Nothing on it is legal advice.

How it stays accurate

Every substantive page shows a review date. Case briefs are checked against the published opinion, and each one links to it. Rules are stated from primary sources and standard restatements, and where courts split, the split is stated.

If you find an error, use the corrections form. Corrections are read by a person and are fixed on the page.

  • Original explanations only. Nothing is copied from a casebook, a commercial outline, or a professor's exam.
  • Sources are named on the page.
  • Historical law is marked as historical.

What it does not do

It does not replace your class. Your professor's syllabus, your casebook, and your school's rules control what you are tested on. Worked examples connect a rule to a disputed fact, and practice questions explain why each competing answer succeeds or fails.

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