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Summary: Give me a break, Harvard
Review: Anyone who listens to that Harvard nut-job is a sap. This book is alright, not as good as Gilbert's, though. The way to go is to pick ONE book that makes sense to you and study it well. Harvey's "forest and trees" theory begs the question: If he falls down in a forest and there is no one there to hear his cries for help, will anyone care?
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Summary: Great as usual
Review: Buy this and High Court summaries keyed to your casebook and you're set. I also used the Gilberts and Sum and Substance 1L tapes while commuting to school--the best preparation with the least effort.
Property isn't the easiest 1L subject but you get the hang of it. This book does help but it's not as easy going as Civ Pro, Ks or Torts, for instance. Still, a great help considering the subject.
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Summary: A great disappointment.
Review: Don't waste your money on the first edition; get the Gilbert's outline instead. Then, if you have questions, just ask your prof.Compared to the Examples & Explanations for Contracts (Blum), Torts (Glannon), and the astounding Civil Procedure (Glannon), this book was a big let-down. Either Aspen needs to have some student reviewers, or the editors at Aspen need to get their act together and compare what is in the book with a commercial outline. In our study group, we randomly turned to two examples & explanations. In one case, the authors said that they differed on the outcome, but only gave one authors opinion (Implied Warranty of Habitability, chp 20, example #10). In another (on Dower, Chp 14., example 1), the answer is flat-out wrong. I do like that the chapters are short, and not intimidating, but the explanations have to be beefed up and well-developed. They are not in this book, and I cannot recommend anyone purchase it. I'm not wasting any time using it in preparation for finals.
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Summary: AMAZING!!
Review: I am a Harvard law student and I went CRAZY preparing for exams. (as did everyone else) but a wise 3L gave me some advice that saved my life. Here is goes: Use Gilbert's on Prop to learn the black letter law of the cases you will be studying. Then use West Group's High Court Summaries to figure out in simpler terms your case. Read your cases. After you learn each subject, do the problems in Examples and Explanations to really apply your knowledge. Just working through each of the examples and seeing the subtle "shadings" of the law was enormously helpful. I know a lot of people get frusterated by this book because the examples can be difficult, but I found them to be harder than my exams which made testing a breeze. After using E & E, you may have lost sight of the forest for all the trees... So for the week before the exam, the nutshell guide should become your bible. It is clear, concise, and presents difficult but very clarifying examples of applications of laws after each law you learn. It was the perfect compact tool to "bring you back into the forest." I got an A in property (am VERY proud of myself) and it was patly because of this book. I highly suggest you buy.
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Summary: Gotta side with Harvard kid
Review: I am only a mediocre student at a mediocre school. But property is our thing and our property prof is our toughest--she was the top grad at Stanford or something and heads up the whole environmental movement out here in the Pacific Northwest. Property was my hardest class by far, yet I passed. I owe passing to this book, because the class was all way over my head. This book gave me what I missed in class and got me to survive the worst exam I ever took. All 1L law students need it. Anyone who is not a lawyer but finds themselves needing to understand basic principles of property law (maybe you are involved in a suit against your local zoning board and need someone to explain to you what your lawyer is saying) needs this book. In fact, if you own your own home or business, you probably need this book. I used to own my own home before I changed careers and went back to college. If I had this book back then, I would have been a lot more saavy in dealing with my obnoxious neighbors. Heck, if you rent you need this book so your landlord doesn't screw you. I think the reason some reviewers hated it is that they are the geeks of your law school class who got all A's without trying. They probably hated Cliff's Notes, too.
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Summary: Harvard Law Student = Author's Nephew?
Review: I have a number of the E&E series books, and they are generally very helpful. Unfortunately, Burke and Snoe's Property is written in the same way that most law profs teach- a little heavy on the legalese without completely explaining themselves. The "Harvard law student" sounds a little too enthusiastic for this book considering it really falls far short of the others in the series. I would not recommend it, and hope that the E&E editors clean up the next edition.
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Summary: Not up to Examples & Explanations Standards!
Review: I have all of the first year E&E books and this one is not nearly of the same quality as the rest of the series. It's confusing. There is no natural progression in explanations. I felt like I was reading another confusing casebook with bad examples! Burke and Snoe need to take a look at how Glannon does it for Torts and Civil Procedure before they write the second edition.
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Summary: not what you want
Review: look, the secret to law school is finding the 1 hornbook you need to survive your class. this is not it. (sorry harvard.) this is poorly written. most indications seem to be that gilbert's is much better. for what it's worth, the other things you need are: chirelstein for contracts; glannon for civ pro; there's nothing for torts, but i suppose glannon for torts is better than the rest; chemerinsky for conlaw; i don't know if there's one for criminal, but I used gilberts.
this is poorly written and poorly explained. I've heard that gilbert's is better.
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Summary: A MUST HAVE!
Review: Of all the property hornbooks this is the only one which will translate into a high grade on a law school exam. The Moynihan book is to small and covers only Prop 1 material. The Singer book is to voluminous, this book covers every testable subject and leaves the discussion of untestable material to the property nerds. Look no further, this hornbook is all you need to get an A in property, if you actually read it it of course.
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Summary: Not a good primer without any previous knowledge of Property
Review: That is not to say that this book would not receive 4 stars as a reference WHILE you are learning Property; however, I found this book confusing as an introduction without any previous knowledge of the subject. The explanations to the examples are not detailed enough and left me confused at times. Also, reading from the beginning of the book, terms and concepts are periodically thrown at you that have not previously been explained...this is from the perspective of someone who is reading this book as a primer. I can see how I will get much more out of this book once I start Property in school; but for a primer, I'd seek elsewhere.
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