This lesson reviews the material addressing Skidmore v. Swift, Chevron v. NRDC, and United States v.
Legal Concepts and Skills
- This Subject Area Index lists all CALI lessons and podcasts covering Legal Concepts and Skills.
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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
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.
Professors Brown and Grohman, are the authors of many CALI lessons. Additionally, both teach 1L courses.
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Probability Theory 1: Descriptors and Conditional Probability
This is the first part of a two part lesson on probability theory. The lesson covers the basics of averages, deviations, conditional probability, and probability models. It roughly corresponds to the first probability theory chapter of Prof.
This is the second component of a lesson on probability theory. The lesson discusses distributions, the Bayes theorem, and the central limit theorem. It also roughly corresponds to the second probability theory chapter of Prof. Georgakopoulos' book Principles and Methods of Law and Economics.
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Researching Judges
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.
This lesson examines the ethical issues associated with, and tools available for, researching parties, witnesses, and jurors on social media sites.
This lesson introduces the student to the doctrine and processes involved in interpreting state and federal statutes. Statutes are a critical part of every substantive area of the law, so this is important background for every student, legal professional, lawyer and judge.
Prof. Burnham, author of a number of CALI lessons and podcasts provides students with advice on multiple choice exam questions. Prof. Burnham goes into the different aspects of a multiple choice question: the stimulus, options, key, and distracters. Additionally, Prof.
In this podcast, Prof. Jennifer Martin discusses the top ten mistakes law students make in law school examinations.
This lesson provides an overview of the branches of the U.S. government and how each branch makes law.