Wills Trusts and Estates in Context (Aspen Coursebook) Scott Andrew Shepard

Description

Buy a new version of this Connected Casebook and receive access to the online e-book, practice questions from your favorite study aids, and an outline tool on CasebookConnect, the all in one learning solution for law school students. CasebookConnect offers you what you need most to be successful in your law school classes— portability, meaningful feedback, and greater efficiency. This looseleaf version of the Connected Casebook does not come with a binder.Wills, Trusts, and Estates in Context offers law school professors and students an accessible, student-friendly coursebook with narrative exposition, replete with significant caches of examples before and after cases. The narrative sections often build slowly in complexity, allowing students to learn the subject from the foundations up. The organization allows equal effectiveness for teaching Wills first or Trusts first, though the text—following tradition—presents Wills first. The book does not rely primarily on cases to teach doctrine. Instead of “hiding the ball,” Shepard offers students the ball and then “plays catch” with students by offering cases that guide an exploration and confirmation of the student’s understanding of doctrine.Professors and students will benefit from:Coverage of topics that is generally proportional to the coverage of topics on the bar examExample- and hypothetical-heavy narrative exposition20 highly relevant and illustrative cases, including some of the most teachable and often-used in the fieldMaterials presented more quickly than traditional textbooks, in a manner that has proven accessible to a wide range of studentsTests at the end of the three primary divisions of the text.End-of-the-semester practicum. The practicum is a practice-based, writing, negotiation and team-work project that gives students a chance to apply what they’ve learned in a setting that models real practice.Teaching materials include:Integrated Teacher’s Manual (the teaching information in the manual is integrated right into the student text at the appropriate point, highlighted, to make the electronic version of the teacher’s manual extremely user friendly).Online Case Bank (a repository of full cases to supplement the more succinct coverage within the printed text).CasebookConnect features:ONLINE E-BOOK Law school comes with a lot of reading, so access your enhanced e-book anytime, anywhere to keep up with your coursework. Highlight, take notes in the margins, and search the full text to quickly find coverage of legal topics.PRACTICE QUESTIONS Quiz yourself before class and prep for your exam in the Study Center. Practice questions from Examples & Explanations, Emanuel Law Outlines, Emanuel Law in a Flash flashcards, and other best-selling study aid series help you study for exams while tracking your strengths and weaknesses to help optimize your study time.OUTLINE TOOL Most professors will tell you that starting your outline early is key to being successful in your law school classes. The Outline Tool automatically populates your notes and highlights from the e-book into an editable format to accelerate your outline creation and increase study time later in the semester.