Everything in law rests on a few fundamentals, and this category installs them in the order a first-year student actually meets them. Begin with the foundations — what law is, the sources it flows from, and how courts, parties and burdens of proof fit together. Move up to the core 1L doctrines, the black-letter rules of contracts, torts, criminal law and property that the whole first year is built around. Then finish with the Latin terms and maxims that fill every casebook, so you can read a judgment at full speed instead of stumbling over the language.
Start here: what law is, where it comes from, and how courts and cases fit together.
The classic first-year subjects: contracts, torts, criminal law and property.
Finish strong with the Latin phrases lawyers use every day — from habeas corpus to res judicata.