Law school outlines

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Law school outlines are study aids created by law school students. An outline typically provides a concise and direct statement of legal issues in a particular area of law, organized according to the typical law school curriculum. Outlines often remove many legal nuances and fact specific distinctions in case law to establish more generalized legal principles.

Law school outlines help law students focus on the most important material they learned for the semester, and are helpful before an exam. They are necessary because it would be impossible to even skim over all of the material they are expected to cover in a semester. With the advent of the Internet they are widely distributed. And, in 2005, Outlinedepot.com pioneered file-sharing of law school outlines.

Outlines are commercially available from several publishers, including LexisNexis and Westlaw. These publishers have outlines for courses most commonly taught in the first year of law school including Torts, Contracts, Property, Civil procedure and Evidence.