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1L Courses

Understanding Civil Procedure (audio)
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23 hours total duration.
Aspen Aloud: Civil Procedure
Series offers 15-30 minute explanations of a variety of civil procedural topics including jurisdiction, pleadings, trial procedure and more.
Civil Procedure: In Other Words Audio Series
Click Listen to view the entire playlist .Topics include: Introduction to Civil Procedure, Appeal, Comparative Jurisdiction, Disclosure and Discovery, Erie Doctrine, Joinder, Offensive Collateral, Personal Jurisdiction, Pleadings, Motion for Summary Judgement and Trials.

Understanding Constitutional Law (audio)
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Online version of popular study guide. 35 hours total duration.
Aspen Aloud: Constitutional Law
Series features 10-35 minute clips covering a variety of civil procedure topics including separation of powers, dormant commerce clause, due process, equal protection, freedom of expression, freedom of religion and others.
Constitutional Law: In Other Words Audio Series
Click Listen to view full playlist of topics including: Attacking a Procedural Due Process Claim; Preemption versus Dormant Commerce Clause Analysis; Dormant Commerce Clause & Article IV Privileges and Immunities Analysis; the State Action Doctrine and its Exceptions; Identifying the Right Level of Scrutiny for Equal Protection Analysis; Tenth Amendment Analysis Today; Sources of Congressional Power; The Commerce Clause and the 14th Amendment; the Necessary and Proper Clause and the Spending Clause; and Equal Protection, Substantive Due Process, and Procedural Due Process Claims.

Understanding Contracts (audio)
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Audio version of Understanding Contracts.36 hours total length.
Aspen Aloud: Contracts
Series of 10-35 minute audio clips explaining various contracts concepts including offer, acceptance, consideration, mistake, parole evidence, remedies, breach, statutes of fraud, defenses, warranties and more.
Contract Law: In Other Words Audio Series
Click Listen to view all episodes which include: acceptance, contractual assent, excuse due to changed circumstances, minority doctrine, offer, specific performance, termination of power of acceptance and UCC battle of forms.

Understanding Criminal Law (audio)
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Audio version of popular study aid. 28 hours total duration.
Aspen Aloud: Criminal Law
20-30 minute audio clips explaining a variety of criminal law concepts from actus reaus and mens rea to justification and particular types of crimes.
Criminal Law: In Other Words Audio Series
Click "Listen" to open full playlist which includes: Introduction to Criminal Law, Accomplice Liability, Attempt-Mens Rea, Conspiracy, Defenses, Elements of a Crime, Mens Rea Requirements, Judge vs Jury, Manslaughter, Murder and Malice, Elements of Rape and Strict Liability Crimes.
Federal Crimes: In Other Words Audio Series
Click "Listen" to open full playlist which includes: Intro to Federal Crimes; Conspiracy, Aiding and Abetting, Corruption, Bribery and Gratuities; Criminal Violations of Constitutional Rights; Delegating Criminal Law Making; Drugs and Punishment; Extortion; Interpreting Federal Criminal Statutes; Jurisdiction and Commerce Power; Mail and Wire Fraud and Sentencing.

Legal Research and Writing: In Other Words Audio Series
5 minute audio lectures focused primarily on writing including: Conventions of Legal Writing-Genres of the Legal Writer, The Paradigm, Predictive vs Persuasive Analysis (Parts IV and V), The Conclusion, Topic Sentences in Explanation, Topic Sentences in Application, Clarity and Readability, Point Headings, Large Scale Organization of the Discussion, and Issue Statement-Question Presented.

Understanding Property Law (audio)
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Audio version of popular study aid. 96 hours total duration.
Aspen Aloud: Property
Series of 10-35 minute audio clips explaining various property law concepts including adverse possession, easements, freehold estates, future interests, landlord and tenant, zoning, land sales and deeds and more.
Property: In Other Words Audio Series
Click Listen to view full playlist of topics including: Acquisition of Property, and Estates in Land and Future Interests, Eminent Domain, Land Finance, Land Transfer, and Public and Private Nuisance, Concurrent Estates, Landlord Tenant Law, Servitudes, and Zoning.

Understanding Torts (audio)
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Audio version of popular study aid. 25 hours total duration.
Aspen Aloud: Torts
Series of 10-25 minute audio clips covering a variety of torts concepts including intentional torts, negligence, defenses, damages, causation, vicarious, strict and products liability, nuisance, defamation and privacy torts among other concepts.
Tort Law: In Other Words Audio Series
Click Listen to view full playlist of topics including: introduction to Torts, Cause in Fact, Comparative Negligence, Immunities, Products Liability, and Proximate Cause, Intentional Torts, Landowner Liability, Reasonable Person Test, Res Ipsa Loquitur, and Violation of Statute.

2L & 3L Required and Bar Courses

Administrative Law: In Other Words Audio Series
Click Listen to view full playlist of topics including: Agency Power to Adjudicate, Appointment and Removal of Agency Officers, Biases within Agencies, Congress's Delegation of Authority to the Agency, Due Process, Informal Notice and Comment Rulemaking Procedure, Judicial Review of Agency Determinations of Law, Judicial Review of Agency Findings of Fact, Policymaking in Rulemaking and Adjudication, Standing.

Understanding Corporate Law (audio)
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Audio version of popular study aid. 27 hours total duration
Aspen Aloud: Corporations and Other Business Entities
Audio clips in this series are 10-30 minutes in length and explain a variety of business and securities concepts.
Business Organizations: In Other Words Audio Series
Click Listen to view all episodes which include: Intro, agency, business judgement rule, choice of form, corporate formation, derivative suits, directors, business judgement rule, LLCs, M&As, and minority shareholder protections.

Aspen Aloud: Criminal Procedure
Series of 10-30 minute audio clips explaining criminal procedure concepts including arrests and searches, electronic surveillance, confessions, exclusionary rule, formal proceedings, right to counsel and other topics.
Criminal Procedure: In Other Words Audio Series
Click Listen to view full playlist of topics including: Confrontation Rights; Dual Sovereignty Doctrine; Effective Assistance of Counsel; Incorporation and Constitutional Interpretation; Incorporation and Constitutional Interpretation; Jury Composition; Plea-Bargaining and Guilty Pleas; Right to a Jury Trial; Sentencing - Guidelines and Apprendi, Blakely, and Booker; Statutory and Constitutional Discovery; Trial Rights - Pre-Indictment Delays and Post-Indictment Delays.

Wills, Trusts, and Estates: In Other Words Audio Series
5 minute audio lectures covering: Wills, Trusts, and Estates; Modification or Termination of Trusts; Trust Administration; Will Contests and Interpretation of Wills; Wills; and Will Substitutes. Sheldon Lyke explains Charitable Trusts; Execution of Wills; Express Private Trusts; Intestate Succession, and Revocation of Wills.

Understanding Evidence (audio)
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Audio version of the Understanding Contracts study aid. 25 hours total playing time.
Aspen Aloud: Evidence
Series of 10-30 minute audio clips explaining a variety of evidence concepts including examination of witnesses and impeachment, hearsay, demonstrative evidence, privileges, burden of proof, judicial notice and more.
Evidence: In Other Words Audio Series
Click Listen to view full playlist of topics: Confrontation Clause and Testimonial Hearsay Statements, Evidence, Hearsay Definitions under FRE 801(a)-(c), Hearsay Exceptions not Based on Declarant's Unavailability, Impeaching a Witness's Character for Truthfulness with Prior Convictions under FRE 609, Legal Relevance under FRE 403, Non-Character Use of Other Crimes, Wrongs, and Acts FRE 404(b), Past Recorded Recollections FRE 803(5), Reliability of Non-Scientific Expert Testimony FRE 702, and Rulings on Evidence under FRE 103.

Professional Responsibility: In Other Words Audio Series
15-minute or less audio lectures covering topics including: Candor of the Tribunal, Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product Doctrine, Concurrent Conflicts of Interest, Confidentiality, Formation of Attorney-Client Relationship, Imputations of Conflict, Miscellaneous Conflicts, Organization as Client, Prospective Clients, and Successive Conflicts of Interest.

Sales: In Other Words Audio Series
In these Sales lectures, Timothy Davis explains the topics of Buyer's Damages - Accepted Goods, Contract Formation, Delivery Terms and Risk of Loss, Rejection and the Perfect Tender Rule, Scope of Article 2, Section 2-207, Statute of Frauds, The Implied Warranty of Merchantability, and Warranty Disclaimers. Lectures are each 5 minutes or less.

Understanding Secured Transactions
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Audio version of popular study aid. 18 total hours of playing time.
Secured Transactions: In Other Words Audio Series
10 minutes or less audio lectures covering Additional Priority Rules, Basic Priority Rules, Classification of Collateral, Other Methods of Perfection, Proceeds, and Special Issues in Bankruptcy. Kendall Jones explains Attachment, Default and Remedies, Perfection by Filing, the Role of Article 9, and the Scope of Article Nine.

Understanding Federal Income Taxation
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Audio version of popular study aid. 36 hours total playing time
Tax: In Other Words Audio Series
Click Listen to view full playlist of tax topics.

Other Legal Subjects

Understanding Bankruptcy (audio)
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Audio book - 40 hours total. Part of the Understanding study aids series.

Environmental Law: In Other Words Audio Series
In these Environmental Law lectures, Jill M. Fraley discusses a New Supreme Court Case on CERCLA, Current Disputes on the Clean Water Act's Coverage Limits, Defining the Activity for Commerce Clause Purposes, Environmental Law and the Limits of Standing, Facial and As Applied Challenges to Statutes, Point Sources, Ground Water and the Clean Water Act, Preemption and Remedies, Private Nuisance Law, Intent Requirements and Actual Practice, The National Environmental Policy Act's Purposes--Then and Now, and Understanding Exactions. Lectures are approximately 5 minutes in length.

Intellectual Property: In Other Words Audio Series
5 minute or less audio clips covering: Introduction to Intellectual Property and covers Acquiring Trademarks Through Use, Benefits of Federal Trademark Registration, Fair Use of Trademarks, Right of Publicity and the First Amendment, and Spectrum of Distinctiveness. Gwendolyn Poindexter covers Dilution, False Advertising, Functionality, Genericness, and Likelihood of Confusion.

International Law: In Other Words Audio Series
5 minutes or less audio lectures covering: Armed Force, Climate Change, Freedom of the High Seas, General Principles of International Law, Human Rights and the UN, International Custom, Judicial Decisions and the Publicists, The International Court of Justice, Treaties and the US Constitution, and Treaties Under International Law.

Payment Systems: In Other Words Audio Series
Short, 5-minute audio lectures covering such areas as Consumer Credit Cards, Electronic Funds Transfer Act (EFTA), Holder in Due Course, Negotiability, Negotiation, and Real Defenses.

Understanding Securities Law
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Audio version of popular study aid. 22 hours total playing time.