Browse 65+ expertly written law school outlines across 22 subjects. Available in Full, Cram, and Bar exam formats. Copy them to your notes and customize for your classes.
Outlines are the scaffolding of law school. A good outline turns a semester of reading, hypotheticals, and Socratic dialogue into a structured map of rules you can actually apply on an exam. Our outline library gives you that scaffolding across every subject a J.D. student encounters — Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Torts, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Real Property, Business Associations, Wills Trusts & Estates, Family Law, Federal Income Tax, Secured Transactions, Remedies, Administrative Law, Professional Responsibility, Legal Writing, Intellectual Property, Securities Regulation, International Law, Conflict of Laws, and Unemployment Law. Every subject is available in three study formats so you can pick the depth that matches where you are. The Full outline is the semester-long reference — comprehensive rule statements, doctrinal structure, leading cases, and the doctrinal nuance professors actually test. The Cram outline is compressed for final exam week — the same doctrine, tighter, weighted toward what shows up on exams. The Bar one-pager strips everything down to what the bar exam tests, organized for last-mile review. All three are written by attorneys and law students, cross-checked against the MBE subject matter outline and the NCBE's published exam structure, and updated to reflect current doctrine. You can read outlines directly, copy them into your own notes, or use them as the skeleton for a personalized outline you build during the semester. They are meant to reduce the cognitive load of assembling the law yourself — not to replace the studying, but to give you a reliable starting point so the time you spend goes into practice, application, and feedback instead of formatting and cross-referencing. Start with your current course, or browse the full library below.