Faculty Guide: Textbooks & Study Aids: Faculty Review Copies

Aspen Publishing

• Top right of website links to: Textbooks > Law Textbooks &  Study Aids (by course)
• Law textbooks include: Aspen Casebook Series + Connected eBooks. 
• Study aids include: Casenote Legal Briefs, Emanuel Law Outlines/Emanuel CrunchTime series, Examples & Explanations series & Glannon Guides.

Access to Digital Copies of Textbooks & a Majority of Study Aids:

• On the page describing the source, click: Professor Review Copy > complete form
• Aspen Publishing states: You will receive an email with access to the digital copy of this title within 2 business days. Please note that we validate all professor accounts before distributing digital samples. If the title is not yet published, you will receive a review copy as soon as it is available.
• If a faculty member wishes to request a print desk copy, please contact Hollis Sherman, Field Sales Manager, Aspen Publishing.

Contact:

Hollis Sherman

Field Sales Manager, DE, NJ, NYC, PA

hollis.sherman@aspenpublishing.com

tel: 302.513.0954

Professor Support & FAQ

Carolina Academic Press: Law Titles (page links to browse by author/subject tools, New Releases & Forthcoming Titles)

Description provided by publisher: Carolina Academic Press, an independent publisher based in Durham, NC, offers a full range of casebooks serving first-year courses to specialized electives, including its innovative Context and Practice Series, Michael Hunter Schwartz, General Editor. CAP is a leading publisher in legal writing and research, including its digital product Core Grammar for Lawyers, which is used at over half of US law schools.   

LexisNexis Law School page: Ordering Textbook and Review Copies links to the LexisNexis Store.

• Professor Review Copy Request provides: online form for BLS faculty to request access to the LexisNexis Digital Library Professor Review Copies site + link to access this Library after LexisNexis replies/assigns a password.
  • Use this site to review copies of: National Institute of Trial Advocacy publications, American Health Lawyers Association publications, Interactive Citation Workstation and LexisNexis Commercial publications.

Contact:

reviewcopy@lexisnexis.com

West Academic: Faculty (to view forthcoming/newly published sources: click a Law School Subject & sort results by: Publication Date)

• Casebooks & coursebooks include: American Casebook Series, Coursebook series, Doctrine and Practice Series, Experiencing Law Series, Interactive Casebook Series, Learning Series & University Casebook Series. 
• Study aids include: Academic Success titles, Acing Series, Black Letter Outlines, Career Guides, Concepts and Insights, Concise Hornbook Series, Exam Pro Series, Gilbert Law Summaries, Global Issues, High Court Case Summaries, Hornbooks, Law School Legends Audio, Law Stories, Legalines, Nutshells, Office Hours, Quick Reviews, Short & Happy Guides & Sum and Substance Audio.  

Access to Digital Copies of Textbooks & Other Teaching Resources:

Dan Maddona stated: Faculty are always welcome to review our books online. I can upload a copy of [the desired] book to the faculty member’s online account. All they need to do is sign up by following these instructions:

1. To get started, please visit our eProducts site, which is linked here: http://eproducts.westacademic.com,
2. Once on that page, you will click on the “Create an Account” button on the upper right corner,
3. You should create a faculty account,
4. Save the email and password that you use when creating this account,
5. Once your account is confirmed as created, close your internet browser completely,
6. Restart your browser and log back into your new account,
7. Once you have completed these steps, email me to let me know that you are up and running and I will make the upload.

Contact:

Dan Madonna

Account Manager

Dan.Madonna@westacademic.com

tel: 215.808.4479

Below are LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters Westlaw resources available to BLS faculty because BLS licenses these databases.

LexisNexis overview: Teaching Resources for Law School Faculty

• Describes 20+ Lexis Learn legal research modules.
  • Requires a faculty member to sign in to Lexis+ > under Tools & Resources, click: Lexis Learn > click: Create Class. 
    • Students must register for this Lexis Learn class (which can include multiple "Class Modules" on various aspects of legal research).
  • BLS Associate Librarian & Adjunct Prof. Kathleen Darvil kathleen.darvil@brooklaw.edu has assigned selected Lexis Learn Class Modules in past courses and is willing to discuss Lexis Learn with BLS faculty.
• Provides a Legal Research and Writing Center containing LexisNexis teaching toolkits, a Legal Research Exercise Bank, instructional videos and guides.
• Includes Interactive Citation Workstation and Interactive Citation Workbook.
  • Provides LexisNexis Interactive Citation Workstation: Guide for Faculty.
  • States that revised online exercises will be available in mid-July.

• Contact for BLS faculty to obtain more information about Lexis Learn legal research modules, the Legal Research and Writing Center and Interactive Citation Workstation:

  Mary Beth Drain                                            
  Practice Area Consultant, LexisNexis Legal & Professional 

  marybeth.drain@lexisnexis.com                                                                         

  tel: 1.845.598.3203            

Thomson Reuters law school portal (which includes Westlaw) > tab: Faculty Resources 

• Describes available Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Certifications.  For a certification overview, click here.  Available materials include video lessons and guided exercises that faculty can assign.
• Includes Guided Exercises: Citations.
• Contact for BLS faculty to obtain more information:

Shawn Lopez

Academic Team Lead, Thomson Reuters

shawn.lopez@thomsonreuters.com

tel: 1.612.283.7766