This lesson reviews the material addressing subsequent legislative action, inaction, and stare decisis in Chapter 5 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering extrinsic sources).
This lesson reviews the material addressing common law canons, the remedial statutes canon, and the rule of lenity in Chapter 6 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering substantive policy canons).
This lesson reviews the material addressing the constitutional avoidance canon, severability, and the federalism canon in Chapter 6 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering substantive policy canons).
This lesson reviews the material addressing preemption, sovereign immunity, retroactivity, and implied causes of action in Chapter 6 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering substantive policy canons).
This lesson reviews the introductory material addressing agencies in Chapter 7 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering agencies and statutory interpretation).
This lesson reviews the material addressing Skidmore v. Swift, Chevron v. NRDC, and United States v. Mead in Chapter 7 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering agencies and statutory interpretation).
This lesson reviews the material addressing Brand X, the major questions doctrine, and deference to agency interpretations of regulations in Chapter 7 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering agencies and statutory interpretation).
This lesson introduces strategies and resources for researching state and federal judges. After completing this lesson, you will feel comfortable researching a judge's educational and professional history, scholarship, prior opinions, and other courts and judges they most frequently cite. It will be useful for prospective and current judicial clerks, law firm summer associates, paralegals, and practicing attorneys.
Creating Study Aids is part of the Academic Support series of CALI Lessons. This lesson introduces you to law school study aids. It begins with a brief overview of self-regulated learning and Bloom's learning taxonomy. Then, the lesson introduces law school study aids by pairing them with learning objectives at each level of the taxonomy. Finally, the lesson concludes with an activity designed to help you reflect on your learning. It can be used as an introduction, supplement, or as review.
This lesson explores the concepts of notice and knowledge. These are important concepts in many areas of law, e.g., contracts, property, constitutional law, criminal procedure and civil procedure.
This is an exercise designed to introduce first-semester law and graduate students to the basic elements of a typical case "brief" and to teach them general methodology for writing their own briefs. The exercise consists of three parts: (1) an introduction to the purposes and uses of a case brief; (2) a detailed examination of each of the ten components of a typical case brief (with examples); and (3) two actual cases that students are asked to read and then to brief, using the methodology described in this exercise. A sample brief for each of the two cases is also provided, thereby allowing students to correct and modify their briefs by way of comparison.
This lesson provides an overview of the branches of the U.S. government and how each branch makes law.