The law library has numerous print study aids on reserve that may be useful during exams:

• Get a broad overview: Nutshells
• Focus on the core principles: Concise Hornbooks and Understanding Series
• Go in-depth: Hornbook Series and Aspen Student Treatise Series
• Test yourself: Examples & Explanations Series and Questions & Answers Series
• Study on the Go:  Gilbert Law School Legends Audio Series and Sum & Substance CDs

Many of these titles and more are also available to students by accessing our West Study Aids Subscription.

The law library has numerous print study aids and other resources on reserve that may be useful during exams:

• Get a broad overview: Nutshells
• Focus on the core principles: Concise Hornbooks and Understanding Series
• Go in-depth: Hornbook Series and Aspen Student Treatise Series
• Test yourself: Examples & Explanations Series and Questions & Answers Series
• Study on the Go:  Gilbert Law School Legends Audio Series and Sum & Substance CDs

A reminder that the Law Library is pleased to offer Mason law students access to West Study Aids. This subscription provides PDFs of over 350 titles, including:

• Black Letter Outlines
• Concise Hornbook Series
• Exam Pro Series
• Gilbert Law Summaries
• Nutshell Series
• Sum & Substance Quick Reviews

Students may access these materials through their Westlaw account. When you sign-in to Westlaw, you will see a series of links under “Legal Research & Tools.” Click on the link to “West Study Aids Subscription” and you will be taken to a list of subject headings. Choose a subject area and then a title. You will click through a couple of windows including a “Subscriber Agreement” that you will need to accept. From there, you will have unlimited access to all of the study aids.

More details, including information about printing allotments and a list of available titles, are available here. Note that limited print copies of the most popular titles will remain available on reserve.

If you have registered with CALI using a Hotmail email address you must change your CALI Account to list another email address from a different provider. Unfortunately, CALI has had significant problems with spam from Hotmail.  CALI has provided the following information for Hotmail users to modify their accounts:

(1) Send an email to webmaster@CALI.org with your name and a non-Hotmail email address that you wish to use with your CALI account. The switch over will have to be done manually so there will be some delay.
(2) Create a new account using a non-Hotmail email address. Please note if you choose this option, you will lose all access to previous lesson run information.  You will also need a GMU authorization code, available in the Reference Office

Starting in the Fall Semester, the library will provide students with access to electronic study aids.  Our new West Study Aids subscription will include titles from eleven popular series including:  Concise Hornbooks, Nutshells, Gilberts, Sum & Substance—and more!.

Just in time for exams, Westlaw is offering a free two-day trial.  Click here, and use your Westlaw One Pass to start the trial.

Here are the details from CALI:

• The resume feature is automatic. If you leave a lesson by any means such as closing the browser or turning off the computer, you’ll be able to resume later…that is, unless you complete and finalize (more on that below).
  • There’s an Exit & Resume Later link in the upper right that has the same effect as above.
  • To resume a lesson in the same spot with the same score, login to cali.org and click “My Lesson Runs“ in the right hand menu.
  • When you get to the end of a lesson, you’ll be given the option to complete and finalize your lesson. If you take this option, you cannot resume that lesson. You can, of course, run the same lesson again from the beginning. There’s also a “Complete the Lesson” link in the table of contents if you’d like to finalize your score prior to hitting the final screen.

Just a reminder that CALI lessons are a great tool to test yourself before an exam.  While not every topic is available, many are!

If you need the GMU student activation code, stop in the reference office or email Melanie at moberlin@gmu.edu. As you probably guessed, the CALI site is especially busy this time of year, so the site may be slower than usual. If you are unable to log on, wait a bit and try again. Or, stop in the reference office to pick up a CD of the lessons.