Understanding Law School is an eBook specifically designed for first-year law students. With sample chapters from some of our leading Understanding titles, content included in this book is designed to be a resource during each year of law school. The LexisNexis Understanding Series, a collection of user-friendly student treatises on a variety of topics, includes more than 50 individual titles. The concise, yet comprehensive, analysis contained in each Understanding title provides a foundation for true understanding of the subject and facilitates more than mere rote learning.

Understanding Law School contains the introductory chapter of each of the following leading student treatises:

•   Understanding Civil Procedure

•   Understanding Contracts

•   Understanding Property Law

•   Understanding Torts

•   Understanding Constitutional Law

•   Understanding Criminal Law

•   Understanding Evidence

•   Understanding Corporate Law

•   Understanding Criminal Procedure Volume 1: Investigation

•   Understanding Lawyers' Ethics

•   Understanding Administrative Law

•   Understanding Federal Income Taxation

•   Understanding Intellectual Property

•   Understanding International Law

•   Understanding Trusts and Estates

•   Understanding Islamic Law

Each Understanding title is designed to provide a solid grounding in the subject covered and to help the reader succeed in gaining a mastery of the subject. The appendix in Understanding Law School contains some very useful reference material, including a chapter on the Basic Concepts of American Jurisprudence from American Legal Systems: A Resource and Reference Guide, a unique book that provides an overview of American legal institutions and sources of law, and presents a guide to the interrelationships between and among those institutions and legal authorities.