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Warning: if you hand write, you're going to be writing A LOT. I feel like I learn better when I do my class notes by hand, but I do have a hard time keeping up with the pace of the class. Each professor's teaching style has an impact on the way you take your notes. Be prepared to be flexible. (I hate that my note system is not uniform across my classes, but I know it is better that way)

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If you like pen-and-paper:

These spiral notebooks have durable brightly colored covers that will survive your backpack, and it is a good idea to keep your notes organized by subject. The paper is thick enough that good highlighter (which I will also link) won't bleed through.

These erasable pens are great. They write very smoothly and erase cleanly--NOT at all like the crappy blue erasable pens of our youth. If you take notes in your textbook, these pens are the way to do it. I love them so much that I was having them shipped from Japan before they even hit the US market.

These standard pens are my go-to for anything that I don't want to be erasable. They write smoothly, and dry quickly enough that they don't smudge or transfer (I'm not sure for left-handed people though).

This mechanical pencil is what I use when I can't use pens. I like that it uses .5mm lead so that your writing can be small and precise. The barrel is large so it is comfortable to write with for extended periods of time (think blue-book exams).

These highlighters are the best. The colors are intentional mild/pastel so that they do not distract from other information on the page, but are easy to spot when you're looking for your highlights. They don't bleed through paper unless it is toilet-paper thin. When they do bleed through very very thin paper, the mild colors make it so that it is not a distraction.

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If you like pen-and-paper, but are afraid of your notes being lost or stolen:

Rocketbook Everlast Notebook coordinates with an app that lets you create a digital copy of your notes. Scan a picture of the page, and the QR code on each page tells the app where to send a SEARCHABLE .pdf copy of your handwritten notes. It works with Google Drive, Evernote, Dropbox, OneNote, OneDrive, Trello, Slack, box, Google Photos, and email. Best of all, the notebook is completely reusable! (As long as you use writing tools from Pilot's Frixion line) Once you've filled the book, you wipe down the plastic pages with a hot damp towel and you can use the book again. I've filled and reused my Rocketbook 4 time so far, and the pages are still in great condition. I send my notes to Google Drive and OneNote, and I've never had any problems.

These highlighters can be used inside the Rocketbook, or on regular paper.

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If you're thinking about going digital:

Your school might provide access to note taking programs. My school provides the full Office 365 Online suite, so I used OneNote. I was a pen-and-paper person in undergrad, and it pains me to switch to digital, but I just need that copy/paste functionality.

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Textbook Supplies:

These sticky flags just came in the mail the other day, and I am loving them for use in my textbooks. I HATE writing in my textbooks, so instead I use these sticky flags to point at lines my professors emphasize in class.

These lined sticky notes are what I used when I just can't avoid adding notes to my casebooks. I avoid the "super-sticky" post-its because casebook pages are thin, and the super-sticky adhesive tears the pages when you reposition notes.

This book stand lives in my backpack now. When I started 1L year my back and neck hurt all the time from hunching over my casebooks for hours every day. This book stand makes it so the book comes to my face, instead of my face to the book. My posture is much better.

Reading glasses are something worth looking into and talking to your eye doctor about. After just one semester of staring at books and screens all day, I went from needing a mild prescription to see long-distance to needing full-on bifocals. I linked some glasses that will magnify your textbooks up close and and also filter out the blue light from screens. Talk to your doctor.

If you are assigned soft-cover reference materials, like The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, or Rule of Contract Law, you can take those books to FedEx or UPS, and they can spiral-bind them for you so that they lay flat and are easier to flip through. This can save you so much time on an exam.

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Most importantly, have a planner.

You can get one from the store, you can print pages on line, you can leave yourself sticky-notes, or you can write your to-do list on your hands, whatever. No matter how you record it, it is crucial to have plan and stick to it. You're about to be hit with an overwhelming amount of conflicting obligations and opportunities, and there will always be something you ought to be working on. Plan and schedule your study time. Take time away to take care of yourself, and make a note to keep up with friends and/or family. You're never going to have "free time" in law school, but you can definitely have some flex time if you make a conscious effort to make room in your schedule.

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Last: you don't need any of this stuff to be successful. Don't worry about what other people are doing, or even what the school tells you to do. If you feel like you do your personal best with a #2 pencil and loose leaf paper, then do that. Paying attention and managing your time wisely are far more important than having the perfect highlighters and the most organized planner.

My god I wish I had found a succinct yet not dumbed-down summary of this sort of stuff when I was dealing with a personal injury case. I can't help but feel that the legal profession (not lawyers themselves) functions largely on information-hiding. Perhaps I should make a summary... I don't know if this is a good topic for wikibooks.

A summary of how CFA fee structures work

Okay so I want to make sure you have a good understanding of how the fee structure works:

CFA's operate as a cap on legal costs so that the law firm can only take costs and success fee up to say 25% of your award (this is the legal maximum).

Separate to this, if you win they will charge you:

• Their costs
  
• The product of their costs and the success percentage
  
• Less any money they recoup from the counter-party
  
  If you obtain no money they will charge you nothing.
  
  Amount paid on winning = minimum(Costs - Reclaimable percentage Costs - Success fee Costs, cap * Awa
  
  The figures you were quoted were pretty standard. I got quoted a 15% cap by some people. I have read on the internet about people getting a 50% success fee before going to trial.
  
  

  Alternative fee structures
  

  
  My understanding is that CFAs are the industry standard for how cases are funded. I kind of suggested not wanting to take a CFA and wasn't magically greeted with alternatives.
  
  

  Likely payout
  

  
  I imagine 10000 GBP is on the high side unless you have missed a bunch of work and not been paid for it or have a pretty nasty injury (i.e. joint injuries), or the prospect of future medical costs (e.g. arthritis). The legal system would seem to value your reputation a lot more highly than your limbs.
  
  You should go and read this book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Guidelines-Assessment-General-Damages-Personal/dp/019875762X/ref=dp_ob_title_bk to find out what your likely payment is. This is what lawyers and judges and everyone uses to value damages. It is pretty much equivalent to case law. Your lawyer will just read this book find the appropriate section and tell you it. The judge in a case will read this book find the appropriate section and have a guess of where your injury falls in this section.
  
  

  Rant about personal injury damages guidance
  

  
  Having a bit of a moan: The fact that this book is not in the public domain is a real disgrace and the judicial college and the author of the book should feel and enduring sense of shame for how much uncertainty and wasted time they impose upon individuals by choosing to sell this book for a profit. Further, the lack of clarity and referencing in this book that has become a defacto standard for decision making again is a source of needless uncertainty and suffering.
  
  In their defence, this book was written before the advent of the internet and BAILII, so at the time of writing selling the book may have been an efficient means of transmitting this information. However, if the law commission is able to publish reports from the 1960s on the internet the judicial college should be able to publish this canonical document.
  
  It is slightly galling, to find you can't assess the value of an injury and because the author was unwilling to take the 10 minutes to list the cases that he spent hours reading "for the sake of brevity". As a reference work, brevity is not really the readers concern.
  
  The cynic in me thinks that the reason of not quoting cases might be because
  
  

• there is no case law basis for the valuations but the author wanted to create one
  
• the author wanted to leave judges as much discretion as possible.
  
  

  Nature of legal costs
  

  
  The issue in personal damage cases tends not to be about liability or non-liability rather how much the other party is willing to pay you and this is the reason that you end up going to court. (Although the possibility of the other part not being liable with push down the amount they offer you).
  
  The government introduced a system call one way qualified cost shifting: http://www.hardwicke.co.uk/insights/archive/articles/an-introduction-to-qualified-one-way-costs-shifting-new-cpr-4413-17 to encourage parties to settle out of court. Lawyers didn't seem that good at explaining this to me in conversations and I have a enduring interest in game theory, economics and evolutionary biology. So I would suggest getting an understanding of this from reading before talking to a lawyer.
  
  

  Economic discussion of incentives
  

  
  Regarding costs there are a couple of other things you should consider. I imagine lawyers are a pretty respectable profession; their costs will be accurate and they will work diligently on what they are doing regardless of funding meethod. On the other hand, there is a benefit of them having some skin in the game: this is an advantage of CFAs. This would probably show up when lawyers professionally and competently do something that you tell them to do which is a bad idea, or competently finish something that is not valuable for you. As such, if I was doing anything complicated I would want to incentivise lawyers with a share of the proceeds.
  
  On the other hand, before a case goes to court when you are just going through the correct legal motions, I feel these incentives are less important. This is mostly just me thinking out loud: a real lawyers experience would be useful here.
  
  If I was feeling forceful and energetic I might consider self funding until you have an offer from your counteryparty, but then taking on a CFA if you choose to go court. However I had no experience with this.
  
  In my case getting to the point of a having an offer cost about 3000 pounds though there were some complicating issues here.
  
  I imagine you could also tell your lawyer "don't spend more than this" and after this stage obtain a CFA. I don't know how happy lawyers are with this sort of stuff. I imagine they find collecting payment boring and lawyering interesting: a CFA gets rid a bunch of boring admin for them. "We win, we give you some money, done".
  
  There is also the complex question of loss aversion on the party of their customers, and them not wanting to be responsible for their clients actively losing money from a case.
  
  

  Where you get your lawyers
  

  
  It is perfectly possible to carry out this sort of case without ever speaking to your lawyer, so you can find lawyers from anywhere in the country and compare their fees.
  
  The exception to this might be if the injuries are very traumatic (or you are finding them traumatic) in which case seeing a lawyer in person can be advantageous from the point of view of not having another relationship to manage.
  
  (Edit: fix up lots of grammar mistakes... reddit is not the best medium for essay!)
  

I always see a lot of hate for condos, with most people seeming to object to paying mortgage and rent at the same time. You don't really buy a condo for the investment return, although that is still possible.

Condos are a lifestyle choice. You get shared amenities, such as pool, weight room, concierge, etc. You don't have to deal with things like snow removal, landscaping, exterior maintenance, taking trash to the curb, etc. You can go away for a month and just lock the door behind you. There is a value to be placed on that kind of convenience.

I own a condo at Bishop's Landing and have no regrets, although I rent it out. Tax plus condo fees are close to $1200/month, which is not that far off from what you might pay in rent elsewhere, but Bishop's Landing is a pretty high-end spot. Like any other real estate investment, location, location, location, but you'll burn out your brain trying to make the math work as an objective investment choice.

There are a few things you should do before buying a condo. The first is read Never Buy a Condo and Other Things I have Learned from the Practice of Law. If you read that and still think a condo is a good idea, there are a few things you absolutely must do. The first is to review the financial health of the condo corporation/association and make sure it is financially sound. As a condo owner, you have shared ownership of the complex. Any major expenses that exceed the reserve and contingency funds of the association, or that the board deems should be paid outside of those funds, comes back to you in the form of a special assessment. Can you afford a $6000 bill from your condo association because the building's siding leaks? If not, you need to reconsider. Reserve funds, by Nova Scotia law, must be supported by an engineering study, so you are relatively well protected in Nova Scotia compared to elsewhere. I would choose a building with a healthy reserve fund and recent study. The second thing you need to do is obtain the meeting minutes from the last few AGMs or association meetings and see what kind of neighbours you are buying. The folks at Bishops Landing are generally well education, smart, commercially-minded, reasonable individuals. The folks at my Father-in-law's condo are the polar opposite. For example, the pool rules had more legislative activity and controversy than US same-sex marriage laws. They decided things like closing the pool for a week as punishment because Martha had both grandkids in the pool when the rules clearly state one guest per resident, then naming and shaming Martha as the cause of the pool closure, was a perfectly reasonable action.

I also dislike when people say the market is "hard" or "soft". It is a market, and prices will always rise or fall to match buyer and seller. The only time you lose or gain in real estate is on entrance and exit. If you are moving to a new place, price doesn't matter. If your condo is suddenly worth 1/2 the value, that doesn't matter provided you are selling to buy another place, because the other place will also be selling at 1/2 of its value. If anything, entering the market when it seems stalled or undervalued is the best strategy.

Regarding the local Halifax market, on the peninsula there is a ton of disparity in condo fees between individual buildings. Inefficient heating/cooling, high-maintenance finishes, structural deficiencies, excessive shared space, can all lead to higher condo fees. You can compare on a per square foot basis but make sure you view that through the lens of what shared services you get for the money. Fees are tied to building amenities and sometimes you get what you pay for. For example, at Bishops Landing, there is a grass lawn, pool, hot tub, weight room, concierge service, on-site maintenance guy, car wash, guest suite, etc. The fees for some of the ones on Spring Garden Road and surrounding areas are crazy expensive with few amenities while Bishops Landing is one of the most cost effective in its class. Rising feels can kill the resale value.

You may also find this link helpful: http://www.downtownhalifaxcondos.com

I'm not an ex-Muslim. However, as an ex-Christian, I recognize the need for people to have some spiritual structure to their lives, for purpose, morality, life, love, etc. I would recommend philosophy, from personal experience. Kant, Mill, Aristotle, and any Stoic (particularly Marcus Aurelius) make excellent starting points to providing this structure.

Some excellent fiction books about this sort of thing include Jonathon Livingston Seagull, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, and poetry in general. Humanism (a longer, more philosophical word for "love" really), is a marvelous starting place. I love literature in general, and one can find profound truth about human nature, morality, and our place in the universe in fiction (even religious fiction, provided we're suspending disbelief and not sacrificing virgins to Apollo, etc).

There can be psychological value in ritual, which perhaps the 5-a-day prayer cycle provided for you before. Things like daily runs, meditation sessions, family meal-time, and closing each day by reading a book for 15-20 minutes can provide a similar sort of structure, if that's what you're after (in my opinion, a more meaningful and powerful one too). I think too much reliance on external events to feel secure and emotionally stable might be a sign that counseling would be a better route to personal health than asking reddit, but it sounds like there's more to it than just the prayer sessions.

Always remember that monotheism, no matter which one it is, breaks your leg and then offers you a crutch. What it sounds like you're feeling is your subconscious sense of instability without the base you've been convinced that you need. The trick is, you're leg isn't broken... you're a complete person with value - a self-sustaining, beautiful, living, breathing, thinking, feeling human being. You don't need the crutch. This can be hard to internalize at first, but when you think about what a prayer actually does, it becomes more difficult to miss. At least it did for me.

I am vegan and have experienced varied reactions firsthand.

Typically, when people confront me or ask about being vegan I point out that studies show that veganism can be healthy. So choosing not to be vegan is an ethical choice where you are weighing animal interests and environmental consequences against your own pleasure and convenience. That's normally seen as pretty reasonable, so I don't get too much attitude (unless I'm on the internet), but I do get some rude dismissals.

I think people have a prototypical vegan in their minds who is some sort of new age hippie. So, for the skeptic community, there's going to be some resistance. Throw in some trumped up claims of dietary perfection and you've got reasons for skeptics to be turned off from both sides.

Like all communities, there are vegans who could use some education. I used to talk about the China Study a lot, until someone pointed out the problems to me. Now, I use evidence about how being vegan can be healthy, but never present it as some miracle diet.

Like the vegan community, I think the skeptic community would do well to check out some people that talk about the ethics of animal use without involving bad science or hippie stuff. Gary Francione is a good example of one of those people.

So, I didn't really answer the question yet. I do think it's unreasonable how some vegans are treated, but the vegans who are in to good science and good ethics need to be better at messaging and speaking out. The skeptic community should see people who are being misled by bad information as people that need to be informed, not mocked and dismissed. Additionally, I think people who are interested in rational inquiry and truth seeking, should look into the legitimate reasons for being vegan instead of dismissing the whole idea because they've ran into some vegans that they didn't like.

In my experience, there are a lot of omnivores that don't like being called out for their lifestyle choices. Even when I'm not discussing being vegan with someone, just existing around them can be accidentally confrontational. Most people don't want to hurt animals, but they've been taught and reinforced to themselves that it's necessary or it's okay. By existing as a vegan, I point out that it's not necessary and I don't think it's okay to use animals. People have a bad reaction to having that thrown into the light because most people want to believe they are good people who would not hurt animals unless it was necessary.

I totally concur with OP, supplements are supplements, not replacements. Read the case book, then read the relevant chapter from the supplement to ensure you got everything you were supposed to get out of it. Once you are getting everything out of the casebook in the first pass, you can discard supplements entirely if you like.

Best supplements, in my opinion:

• Introduction to Civil Procedure by Richard Freer
  
  
• Understanding Contracts by Richard Ferriell
  
  
• Understanding Property by John Sprankling
  
  
• Constitutional Law by Erwin Chemerinsky
  
  
• Understanding Criminal Law by Joshua Dressler
  
  
• E&E for Torts
  
  You can quibble on some, but any law student worth his salt will recognize Dressler on crim and Chemerinsky on con law as the best. Freer on Civ Pro is very well recognized as well. I like the Understanding series for contracts and property because they are still succinct yet more in-depth than the E&E's. I like the E&E for torts because the Understanding book for that class isn't especially good.
  
  If you don't like any of the above, the respective E&E would be my second choice.

The first year is rough, but rewarding if you stick to it. My tip to you: buy this book!

Easily the most valuable resource you can have in a torts class, and great to keep for down the line (I still have mine, and refer to it often). Crystal clear explanations, it oftentimes will boil down readings you have to do in class to a few paragraphs, and is extremely well-respected source. Probably the best 60 bucks you can spend in your first year of law school.

Thanks, looks useful. I was hoping there'd be something online, like this but for English law, but I guess that was being overly optimistic; nothing's free over here.

Looking more on Amazon, there seem to be 2 competing q&a series, Routledge and Oxford. Might pick between them depending on which seems better in each individual subject - e.g. for contracts I think I'm going to go for the Oxford one: their author is head of the Bristol Uni law dept, wheras Routledge's author is at "Lincoln Uni" (== Hull Polytechnic)..

Though I guess I'd not be losing much by trying one of each - you can get them practically free if you get one of the older versions second hand, and it's not like the law's changed much in the last couple of years in most subjects.

Put simply if you're working in the operational area the work you are doing is more about managing people and projects rather than the heritage itself. Heritage legislation is fairly easy to learn, all you need is a copy of Charles Mynors, and to understand how to deal with conservators and the like. In terms of site management of a historic house, you're going to be involved in organising projects in order to bring visitors and money onto the site.

I would recommend the heritage management courses - for instance the one at York - if you're looking to do interpretation and so on, but even then it's better to specialise in a particular area, so that you can better research sites in order to produce material on them. In that the building history one I linked at Cambridge below has some good career potential - for instance in Historic England's listing department.

If you haven't done so already, I strongly recommend having a look at the National Trust careers site to give yourself an indication of what kinds of qualifications they are looking for and factor that into your thinking. EH one here too.

> For example, black people and white people very obviously have different nose shapes.

This was refuted in literally my first week of Anthropology 100 in my undergrad. Which of these is the black nose?

This one?

This one?

This one?

This one?

This one?

>If it were only skin tone that influenced how we label different races, we'd find it impossible to tell the difference between, say, some Indians and some African Americans, but it actually isn't that hard at all.

Except it is, which is why a number of "African Americans" successfully posed as Indian during Jim Crow, for example Korla Pandit.

>but the one area where there is variation is in the characteristics we as a society have picked out upon to make the racial split in the first place.

You really should read the books I linked about the construction of race in America. To reiterate, those were Racial Formation in the United States, White By Law: The Legal Construction of Race, The History of White People, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America.

One of the commenters who came from /r/sociology after you suggested I cross post in subs where the users have relevant academic training also added to that some Franz Boas, which I'd like to reiterate. A good introduction to biological anthropology will reiterate what I've said about white/black groupings that you're assuming and then reifying, as will all the resources here as will a good intro to sociology.

To reiterate (1) genetic populations exist, and may share some characteristics -- for instance, San people in South Africa are reliably different than Zulu people. (2) When you try to group those populations together into something like "black" it just doesn't work. The 5 or 7 or however many you want "races" do not have any basis in biological reality (3) groupings like "black" or "African American" are too diverse to make statements like "black people all share thus and such cranial shape/nasal capacity/whatever." Therefore, (4) it makes no sense to say that you can "hear" when someone is "black" because of something biological or physiological because "black" is not a biologically meaningful category, despite its incredibly high social salience. I further argued, above, that what OP does hear is likely an accent, from an ethnolect, which came about precisely because of the social construction of race. I have friends who have "black" parentage, but everyone treats them as "white" because they "look white" and "sound white." You cannot tell by listening that their parents are black, because it's not a biologically meaningful grouping that would actually affect physiology such that it had an affect on language.

A logical terminus of the inverse argument others have proposed above is that there are fundamental biological differences, directly related to race, which affect language production. We know this to be false.

Even in your aside on tone, you're still assuming "white" and "African American" are biologically meaningful groupings, when they're not.

> Public housing just isn't very big in the US

I have to disagree with the characterization here. I'm not sure we can just look at a number in a vacuum and say that the policy impact is small based on our intuition.

In 1979, there were 1,204,718 public housing units against a population of about 77,330,000 households in the U.S. That's 1 public housing unit per 64 families in the United States, and one per every 28 families that rent. By 1993, that number had dropped to 1 unit per 69 families and today that number is a little less than 1 for every 95, 1 for every 43 families that rent. That's a 31% decrease in the number of available public housing units on a per capita basis in about two generations. That's a pretty drastic cutback.

At the same time, the number of total private housing units being created was, with some ups and downs surprisingly flat from the late 50s through the mid 2000s, despite the fact that the number of households in the market more than doubled over that same period. And over the last 12 years, housing production has been way below previous benchmarks.

It seems to me a substantial reduction in public housing aimed at the most vulnerable households combined with a roughly flat (I would argue falling) production of new private units would have a pretty substantial bottom-up impact on the housing market.

>Restrictive zoning has banned us from building the sort of places we used to build.

I also want to point out that I agree with this sentiment broadly, but the two theories are not mutually exclusive. As a tremendous number of Americans have a tremendous amount of wealth tied up in their homes, they have an extremely strong political incentive to fight anything and everything in their community which would have an unpredictable impact on their housing values, including new dense construction.

Isn't there something to the idea that systematically commodifying housing and then reducing the supply of social housing causing prices to increase overall would have a double-barrelled impact on newly formed households across the income spectrum? These new planning restrictions didn't just come out of nowhere - there was a political constituency that wanted them.

Just finished a law degree in England, so I can give you the resources I used. Webb and Akkouh's book on trusts is relatively short and quite a good introduction. Parker and Mellow's book goes into more detail, but is older, so a bit outdated in parts. I never used Virgo's book but it was recommended to me by quite a few people. If you want the "authoritative" textbook then you'll probably want Megarry and Wade, but it's rather dense and may be too much for your purposes.

There have been a few pretty influential trusts cases in the past couple of years (including a rather important one overturning 120 years of law just this morning!) so you won't just be able to rely on any of these books absolutely, but I assume you're familiar with this if you're doing a masters.

Great. I was a TA for Business Associations last semester. My professor's teaching style was different than any other law school class I have taken, but I would imagine the overall concepts are applied the same. There is a Corporations E + E that is okay. When I took the class I used this book http://www.amazon.com/Acing-Business-Associations-Law-School/dp/0314906738. This book is by far the simplest supplement I have used in law school and it covers all of the topics you mentioned. For additional Agency help look at the restatements 3rd on Westlaw. The comments provide excellent examples that will help you understand the concepts better. When analyzing the issues on the exam ask yourself "what type of relationship is this?" (ie agency, partnership, shareholder, organs) and "who is liable?" (ie is a third party suing the principal for an agents actions, is principal suing the agent, is a share holder suing the BoD, ect). As long as you can frame the issue correctly you are halfway to the answer.

IMO it really depends on the subject and your style of learning.

Subject: The E&Es are good for some subjects and less good for others. I would look around on TLS and Amazon and see what supplements are highly rated for each subject. For example, many people think the "sailboat book" is the best for contracts. Gilbert's is another popular series of books (similar to E&E).

Style of learning: Some people find that they learn better from a book that's in outline format (like Gilbert's), while others prefer something that's more like a treatise (like the sailboat book). You might want to experiment with both and see what you prefer. Chances are your school's library has many of the supplements and you can go have a look at them there.

As a 1L you should NOT be using bar prep books. They will not be helpful. I was talking to two other law reviewers this morning and we all agreed that our #1 favorite study aid (by a very large margin) was the Q&A series from LexisNexis. They are books of 150-250 multiple choice questions on almost all law school subjects. They are broken down by topic, so you can easily skip the ones that you didn't cover in class.

Many people don't use these books for essay tests because they don't think that multiple choice practice helps for essay. This is a huge mistake. Example: Con Law. We had the quintessential "hide the ball" obfuscating professor who gave an open book essay exam (3 questions). The Q&A had very succinct explanations of complicated ideas like "rational basis with bite," and doing the problems and reading the explanations gave us a good understanding of the basic rules as well as an easy way to explain them. Breaking ideas down into applicable rules and then applying them is the hardest part of 1L, and the book basically does it for you, while helping you to memorize it all at the same time. Come test time, between the three of us, we had three A's and a CALI in Con Law, and we all were top 10%.

The only time Q&A is bad is when the prof does mostly state law. Other than that, I have used them in almost every 1L and "bar" class to great success. They are typically $10-15 used on Amazon.

Link to Torts Version

I took the class in the fall and had decent success. I can't remember the guy's name who wrote the supplement I used but I'll track it down and get back to you. I'm pretty sure the guy's name is zinnecker.

edit: I found it. he co-authored the Q and A book. This was super helpful for me because my exam was multiple choice.

Definitely check out [Concepts and Case Analysis in the Law of Contracts] (http://www.amazon.com/dp/160930330X/?tag=lawschooltransferguide-20). That was my favorite supplement to use throughout the semester.

The [Contracts Crunchtime] (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1454870141/?tag=lawschooltransferguide-20) supplement is great for last minute finals prep.

Good luck!

Hey I know this thread is a little old, but I had your same textbook and CALIed Contracts and that hornbook that someone linked is AMAZING. I have a paperback version that I got as a gift but have to imagine it's cheaper. Don't feel like you have to necessarily buy it but seriously check it out at the library, it's the shit

https://www.amazon.com/Contracts-Hornbooks-Joseph-Perillo/dp/0314287701

He might be referring to https://www.amazon.com/Concepts-Analysis-Contracts-University-Textbook/dp/1587781972

I found it to be pretty helpful in explaining general concepts. Also, he discusses some cases in there that will probably appear in your casebook. In those instances, I found it extraordinarily helpful.

I used Marvin Chirelstein's Concepts and Case Analysis in the Law of Contracts, highly readable, informative and packed with info. Read it probably three times throughout the semester, highly recommend

Everyone I know refers to it simply at "The Boat Book," because it has a boat on its cover haha

http://www.amazon.com/Chirelsteins-Concepts-Analysis-Contracts-Insights/dp/160930330X

I had the same problem with my business associations professor and ended up getting "Acing Business Associations" by Chaslow. For me, it worked really well. It's not an outline exactly, more similar to an E&E, but it's extremely easy to read and should be enough to get you started. http://www.amazon.com/Acing-Business-Associations-Law-School/dp/0314906738/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411832642&sr=8-1&keywords=business+associations+supplement

The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy

Autobiography of a Yogi

The Field,
The Intention Experiment, The Bond

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

You might enjoy Jonathan Livinston Seagull

Just skim some hornbooks. Here's a cheap Contracts one that you can read through in a couple sittings and will give you enough background to make sense of whatever outline you're winging it with -- it's what I used when I was in your position as a 1L with respect to contracts: https://www.amazon.com/Concepts-Analysis-Contracts-University-Textbook/dp/1587781972

I found this one very helpful - https://www.amazon.com/Concepts-Case-Analysis-Contracts-Insights/dp/160930330X

Step 1: Get off reddit.

Step 2: Buy this with overnight shipping

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Step 4: Do reasonably well on the exam

Making your own outline is overrated. Just find a good one and study that. Also, read this.

A Hornbook is a supplement that explains the legal concepts and black letter law in plain English. There is a Hornbook for every topic/course in law school. You'll want to keep these as a reference book post law school.

Example - (https://www.amazon.com/Contracts-Hornbooks-Joseph-Perillo/dp/0314287701)

Here you go buddy: Acing Business Associations (Acing Law School) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0314906738/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_XTDNDbF6QST82

BOAT BOOK

https://www.amazon.com/Questions-Answers-Judge-Bruce-Markell/dp/1422483460/ref=pd_sim_14_5?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=DMZ9ACCZCNYVP6YKSPTG

Look out for some of the newer rules on multi-state transactions and DR name requirements on financing statements.

Check this out OP over 1000 pages hardcover 10$

Prosser and Keeton on Torts, 5th Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/0314748806/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_eW6YCbN4TRW1G

The Examples and Explanations series. [Examples and Explanations] (https://www.amazon.com/Law-Torts-Examples-Explanations-4th/dp/0735588740/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536629513&sr=1-2&keywords=examples+and+explanations+torts)

There's a book on almost every law school subject.