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Welcome to Wiki Law School

What is This Website? This wiki is intended to be a knowledge base primarily for law students, but also for anybody interested in learning about the law. Don't know what a wiki is? Find out!

The main purpose of this wiki is to provide outlines for all legal topics you will learn about in law school. All are invited and encouraged to participate in the editing process, thus resulting in the most complete and accurate outlines around.

This site will be a great resource for law students preparing for final exams. There is more than one way that the legal outlines will help you:

  • As you go through your class notes, you will compare them to the outlines to fill in the gaps in your notes. You will be able to discuss with fellow students around the country about what the law is. You will scrutinize the current outline, correcting any mistakes or adding to any topics. By actively working on the outlines, you will be able to improve your own understanding of the legal topics.
  • As you study the outlines that others have posted and edited, you will learn the material you need to know.

How to Use this Site

New to Wiki Law School? It is built upon the MediaWiki Wiki Engine, so the mechanics of searching and editing our content are very similar to a large number of other wikis out there on the internet. Here is a primer to get you started:

Searching

If you want to find an outlne or article, type your topic in the search box to the left and click "Go" or "Search." If you can't find what you're looking for, try other search terms. Or, perhaps the outline you are looking for doesn't exist yet. In that case, you can create it yourself!

For more information on the search box functions, please see Wiki Law School:Searching.

Editing/Creating Articles

If you want to create an outline or article, type the name of the title in the search box and click "Go." If the article already exists, you will be brought to it and you may then edit it. If the article does not yet exist, you will be given the option to "create this page." Click that link and begin typing! Follow the Editing help link on the editing page for help.


Help Wiki Law School Grow!

As the Wiki Law School community grows, we will get better and better! Once we reach a critical mass, each outline will receive more attention from many individuals, which will help all of us. You can help us grow (and by extension, help yourself learn and study) by telling your fellow law students about us. Spread the Word!