Emanuel Law Outlines: Torts, Keyed to Prosser, Wade, Schwartz, Kelly, and Partlett
The most trusted name in law school outlines, Emanuel Law Outlines were developed while Steve Emanuel was a student at Harvard Law and were the first to approach each course from the point of view of the student. Invaluable for use throughout your course and again at exam time, Emanuel Law Outlines are well-correlated to
The most trusted name in law school outlines, Emanuel Law Outlines were developed while Steve Emanuel was a student at Harvard Law and were the first to approach each course from the point of view of the student. Invaluable for use throughout your course and again at exam time, Emanuel Law Outlines are well-correlated to all major casebooks to help you to create your own outlines. Sophisticated yet easy to understand, each guide includes both capsule and detailed explanations of critical issues, topics, and black letter law you must know to master the course. Quiz Yourself Q&As, Essay Q&As, and Exam Tips give you ample opportunity to test your knowledge throughout the semester and leading up to the exam. Every title in the series is frequently updated and reviewed against new developments and recent cases covered in the leading casebooks. Emanuel Law Outlines provide a comprehensive breakdown of the law, more sweeping than most, for your entire study process.
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Developed by Steve Emanuel when he was a law school student at Harvard, Emanuel Law Outlines became popular with other law students and spawned an industry of reliable study aids. (Having passed the California bar as well, Steve Emanuel is now a member of the New York, Connecticut, Maryland, and Virginia bars.) Each Outline is valuable throughout the course and again at exam time. Outline chapters provide comprehensive coverage of the topics, cases, and black letter law covered in the course and major casebooks, written in a way you can easily understand. The Quiz Yourself Q&A in each chapter and the Essay Q&A at the end provide ample opportunity to test your knowledge throughout the semester. Exam Tips alert you to the issues that commonly pop up on exams and to the fact patterns commonly used to test those items. The Capsule Summary an excellent exam preparation tool provides a quick review of the key concepts covered in the course. The comprehensive coverage is more sweeping than most outlines. Each Emanuel Law Outline is correlated to the leading casebooks. Every title is frequently updated and reviewed against new developments and recent cases covered in the leading casebooks. Tight uniformity of writing style and approach means that if you use one of these guides, you can be confident that the others will be of similar quality.
Best supplement for Torts, much better than crunchtime, especially keyed. First and foremost, most Emanuel outlines are amazing if keyed to your casebook. This means the supplement follows along with your casebook and cases. This supplement has a short outline at the beginning and then goes more in depth explaining the topics touched on in the case book, with some checklist/issue spotting tips at the end of each chapter and some Q&A. Finally it has a few hypos and practice exams at the end. I first used an Emanuel not keyed to my text book, but switched when I…
Limited use. Also, chapter structure doesn’t completely match … Limited use. Also, chapter structure doesn’t completely match the keyed book, as if someone screwed up on the editing. Felt ripped off, as if a newer edition number was slapped on an older book. Contacted publisher about it, and never got a response.
Highly Recommended, but not Perfect This is obviously a great resource for those whose professors teach “to the book.” It also helps to fill in the numerous lacunae in PWS by quoting from the Second and Third Restatements of Torts. I found the “quiz yourself” sections and the short-but-concise capsule summary at the beginning each very useful. For me, this resource was an absolutely necessary resource for exam preparation.A few negatives: It strayed from the book in an unhelpful way by not having a separate…