Jamail Center for Legal Research
Tarlton Law Library

1L resource guide

Updated October 13, 2007

In order to help students find hornbooks and study guides for the required first year classes, the Library has created the following list of popular hornbooks and study guides.  Click on the call number for any title to find out if it is currently available.

Civil Procedure

• Civil Procedure, 4th ed. by Jack H. Friedenthal, Mary Kay Kane, Arthur R. Miller. [KF 8840 F727 2005]
• Civil Procedure: Examples and Explanations, 6th ed. by Joseph W. Glannon [KF 8840 G58 2008]
• Understanding Civil Procedure, 3rd ed. by Gene R. Shreve and Peter Raven-Hansen [KF 8840 S484 2002]
• Civil Procedure, 7th ed. by Kevin M. Clermont [KF 8841 C56 2004]
• Civil Procedure by Steven L. Emanuel [KF 8841 E42 2000]
• Civil Procedure in a Nutshell, 6th ed. by Mary Kay Kane [KF 8841 K36 2007]
• Civil procedure, 16th ed . by Richard L. Marcus, Thomas D. Rowe, Jr. [KF 8841 M37 2002]
• Civil Procedure, 2nd ed. by Linda S. Mullenix [KF 8841 M86 2007]
• Computer-Aided Exercises on Civil Procedure, 5th ed. by Roger C. Park, Douglas D. McFarland [KF 8841 P37 2004]
• Siegel's Civil Procedure: Essay and Multi-Choice Questions and Answers, 4th ed. by Brian N. Siegel and Lazar Emanuel [KF 8841 S54 1998]
• Law of Federal Courts, 6th ed. by Charles Alan Wright and Mary Kay Kane [KF 8840 W7 2002]

Constitutional Law

• Constitutional Law, 7th ed. by Jerome A. Barron and C. Thomas Dienes [KF 4550 B28 2005]
• Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies, 3 nd ed . by Erwin Chemerinsky [KF 4550 C42 2006]
• Constitutional Law—National Power and Federalism: Examples and Explanations, 4th ed. by Christopher N. May and Allan Ides [KF 4550 M29 2007]
• Principles of Constitutional Law, 2nd ed. by John E. Nowak and Ronald D. Rotunda [KF 4550 N64 2005]
• Understanding Constitutional Law, 3rd ed. by Norman Redlich, John Attanasio, and Joel K. Goldstein [KF 4550 R43 2005]
• Constitutional Analysis in a Nutshell, 2nd ed. by Thomas E. Baker and Jerre S. Williams [KF 4550 Z9 B33 2003]
• Constitutional Law in a Nutshell, 6th ed. by Jerome A. Barron and C. Thomas Dienes [KF 4550 Z9 B35 2005]
• Constitutional Law, 20th ed. by Steven L. Emanuel [KF 4550 Z9 E42 2002]
• Questions & Answers: Constitutional Law: Multiple Choice and Short Answers Questions and Answers, 2nd ed. by Paul E. McGreal and Linda S. Eads [KF 4550 Z9 M323 2007]

Contracts

• Contracts: Examples and Explanations, 4th ed. by Brian A. Blum [KF 801 B58 2007]
• Calamari and Perillo on Contracts, 5th ed . by Joseph M. Perillo [KF 801 C26 2003]
• Concepts and Case Analysis in the Law of Contracts, 5th ed. by Marvin A. Chirelstein [KF 801 C44 2006]
• Contracts, 4th ed. by John D. Calamari and Joseph M. Perillo [KF 801 Z9 C27 2004]
• Contract Law: Outlines and Flowcharts by Frank J. Doti [KF 801 Z9 D67 2004]
• Understanding Contracts by Jeffrey Ferriell and Michael Navin [KF 801 Z9 F46 2004]
• Questions & Answers: Contracts: Multiple Choice and Short Answer Questions and Answers, rev. 1st ed. by Keith A. Rowley [KF 801 Z9 R68 2006]
• Contracts in a Nutshell, 6th ed. by Claude D. Rohwer and Anthony M. Skrocki [KF 801 Z9 S3 2006]

Criminal Law

• Understanding Criminal Law, 4th ed. by Joshua Dressler [KF 9219 D73 2006]
• Criminal Law, 4th ed. by Wayne R. LaFave [KF 9219 L386 2003]
• Criminal Law, 17th ed. by George E. Dix [KF 9219.3 D59 2002]
• Criminal Law by Joshua Dressler [KF 9219.3 D732 2005]
• Criminal Law in a Nutshell, 4th ed. by Arnold H. Loewy [KF 9219.3 L63 2003]
• Criminal Law, 3rd ed. by Peter W. Low [KF 9219.3 L69 2007]
• Criminal Law: Examples and Explanations, 4th ed. by Richard G. Singer and John Q. La Fond [KF 9219.3 S542 2007]
• The Glannon Guide to Criminal Law: Learning Criminal Law Through Multiple-Choice Questions and Analysis by Laurie L. Levenson [KF 9219.5 L477 2005]
• Questions & Answers: Criminal Law: Multiple Choice and Short Answer Questions and Answers, 2nd ed. by Emily Marcus Levine and Paul Marcus [KF 9219.5 L48 2007]

Property

• Property: Examples and Explanations, 3rd ed. by Barlow Burke and Joseph A. Snoe [KF 560 B87 2008]
• Understanding Property Law, 2nd ed. by John G. Sprankling [KF 561 S67 2007]
• Principles of Property Law, 6th ed. by Herbert Hovenkamp and Sheldon F. Kurtz [KF 570 S53 2005]
• Property, 5th ed. by Roger Bernhardt and Ann M. Burkhart [KF 570 Z9 B46 2006]
• Real Property in a Nutshell, 5th ed. by Roger Bernhardt and Ann M. Burkhart [KF 570 Z9 B47 2005]
• Property, 5th ed. by Steven L. Emanuel [KF 570 Z9 E42 2001]
• Introduction to Property, 2nd ed . by Joseph William Singer [KF 570 Z9 S56 2005]
• Property, 2nd ed. by Peter T. Wendel [KF 570 Z9 W45 2007]
• Estates in Land and Future Interests: A Step-by-Step Guide, 2nd ed. by Linda H. Edwards [KF 577 E39 2005]
• Estates and Future Interests in a Nutshell, 3rd ed. by Lawrence W. Waggoner and Thomas P. Gallanis [KF 605 W33 2005]
• Estates in Land and Future Interests: Problems and Answers, 4th ed. by John Makdisi and Daniel B. Bogart [KF 605 M34 2004]

Torts

• Torts by Richard A. Epstein [KF 1249 E673 1999]
• Understanding Torts, 3rd ed. by John L. Diamond, Lawrence C. Levine, and M. Stuart Madden [KF 1250 D52 2007]
• The Law of Torts by Dan B. Dobbs [KF 1250 D62 2000]
• Mastering Torts: A Student's Guide to the Law of Torts, 3rd ed. by Vincent R. Johnson [KF 1250 J64 2005]
• Prosser and Keeton on the Law of Torts, 5th ed. by W. Page Keeton [KF 1250 P73 1984]
• Questions & Answers: Torts: Multiple Choice and Short Answer Questions and Answers by Anita Bernstein and David P. Leonard [KF 1250 Z9 B47 2004]
• Torts, 6th ed. by Steven L. Emanuel [KF 1250 Z9 E42 2001]
• The Law of Torts: Examples and Explanations, 3rd ed. by Joseph W. Glannon [KF 1250 Z9 G63 2005]
• Torts, 4th ed. by Edward J. Kionka [KF 1250 Z9 K527 2006]
• Torts in a Nutshell, 4th ed. by Edward J. Kionka [KF 1250 Z9 K56 2005]

Legal Research & Writing

• Fundamentals of Legal Research by Roy M. Mersky and Donald J. Dunn [KF 240 J32 2002]
• Legal Research Illustrated: An Abridgment of Fundamentals of Legal Research by Roy M. Mersky and Donald J. Dunn [KF 240 J33 2002]
• Legal Research in a Nutshell, 9th ed. by Morris L. Cohen and Kent C. Olson [KF 240 C54 2007]
• Legal Research: How to Find & Understand the Law, 14th ed. by Stephen Elias and Susan Levinkind [KF 240 E36 2007]
• Basic Legal Research: Tools and Strategies by Amy E. Sloan [KF 240 S66 2006]
• ALWD Citation Manual: A Professional System of Citation by Association of Legal Writing Directors and Darby Dickerson [KF 245 A45 2006]
• Just Writing: Grammar, Punctuation, and Style for the Legal Writer, 2nd ed. by Anne Enquist and Laurel Currie Oates [KF 250 E57 2005]
• The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style, 2nd ed. by Bryan A. Garner, with Jeff Newman, Tiger Jackson . [Reference KF 250 G376 2006] 
• Guide to Legal Writing Style, 4th ed. by Terry LeClercq [KF 250 L45 2007]
• Writing for the Legal Audience by Wayne Schiess [Reserve KF 250 S35 2003]
• Manual on Usage & Style, 11th ed. by the Texas Law Review Association [Reference KF 250 T4 2008]
• Plain English for Lawyers, 5th ed. by Richard C. Wydick [Reserve KF 250 W93 2005]
• Woe is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English, 2nd ed. by Patricia T. O'Conner [PE 1112 O26 2004]