Legal Dictionary

269 doctrines from the seven subjects that make up almost every 1L and 2L exam. Each entry gives the plain-English definition first, then the formal rule, its elements, the cases that established it, and what an examiner is looking for when they test it.

These are written for the moment you hit a term in a casebook and need the rule, not a treatise. Where a doctrine has a leading case, the entry links straight to that case brief — and every case brief links back to the doctrines it turns on.