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BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR INCOMING LAW STUDENTS This bibliography is a basic guide for students who want to learn more about law school and the legal process before they begin their official journey as law students. You are not required, or even officially encouraged, to read any of the items on this list.
General Works About Law School Books Succeeding in law school / Herbert N. Ramy, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2010. Demystifying the first year of law school: a guide to the 1L experience / Albert J. Moore and David A. Binder, Austin: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business ; New York, NY: Aspen Publishers, 2010. 1L of a ride: a well-traveled professor's roadmap to success in the first year of law school / by Andrew J. McClurg, St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2009. Law school without fear: strategies for success / Helene Shapo, New York, N.Y. : Foundation Press, 2009. What every law student really needs to know: an introduction to the study of law / Tracey E. George, Suzanna Sherry, New York: Aspen Publishers, 2009. Bridging the gap between college and law school: strategies for success / Ruta K. Stropus & Charlotte D. Taylor, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2009. Legal analysis: the fundamental skill / David S. Romantz & Kathleen Elliott Vinson, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2009. "Just Trying To Be Human in This Place": Storytelling and Film in the First-Year Law School Introduction to the study and practice of law in a nutshell / by Kenney F. Hegland, St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2008. Making law review: the expert's guide to mastering the write-on competition / by Wes Henricksen, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2008. Expert learning for law students / Michael Hunter Schwartz, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2008. The law student's pocket mentor: from surviving to thriving / Ann L. Iijima, Austin : Wolters Kluwer Law & Business/Aspen Publishers, 2007. Academic legal writing: law review articles, student notes, seminar papers, and getting on law review / by Eugene Volokh, with foreword by Alex Kozinski, New York : Foundation Press, 2010. Reading like a lawyer: time-saving strategies for reading law like an expert / Ruth Ann McKinney, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2005. Law school 101: survival techniques from pre-law to being an attorney / R. Stephanie Good, Naperville, Ill.: Sphinx Pub., 2004. Law school survival guide / from the editors of JD jungle and jdjungle.com, the leading sources of information for lawyers and law students, Cambridge, Mass.: Jungle Media Group/Perseus Pub., 2003. The law school trip: the insider's guide to law school / Andrew J. McClurg ; designed and illustrated by Gary Wayne Golden, Victoria, B.C. : Trafford, 2001. Law school confidential: the complete law school survival guide: by students, for students / Robert H. Miller, New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2000 (Limited preview available via Google Books: http://books.google.com/) Law school survival: a crash course for students by students / by Greg & Shannon Gottesman & friends, New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 1998 (Limited preview available via Google Books: http://books.google.com/) Planet law school: what you need to know (before you go) ... but didn't know to ask / by "Atticus Falcon" Honolulu, Hawaii: Fine Print Press, 1998. The first year law school survival kit / by Jeff Adachi, [S.l.] : Survival Series Pub. Co., 1996. One L by Scott Turow; with a new afterword by the author, New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1988.
Online Resources How to Read a Legal Opinion: a Guide for New Law Students, Orin S. Kerr, George Washington University - Law School, posted to SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1160925 Also published in The GREEN BAG, An Entertaining Journal of Law, Vol 11, No. 1, p. 51, Autumn 2007. Law Vibes, Top 10 Law Student Books of the Moment: Starter Edition Wish I Would Have Known: Advice from Law Students on How They Would Do Things Over http://wishiwouldhaveknown.blogspot.com/ JD Law Students Blog: JD candidates at Vermont Law School share their thoughts and experiences http://vlsjd.wordpress.com/ [ back to top ]
Law School Success: A Guide to Studying Law and Taking Law School Exams, 2nd ed. (nutshell), Burkhart, Ann M. and Stein, Robert A., West Pub. Co., 2008. Law school exams: preparing and writing to win / Charles R. Calleros, Austin : Wolters Kluwer Law & Business/Aspen Publishers, 2007. Getting to maybe: how to excel on law school exams / Richard Michael Fischl and Jeremy Paul, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1999. [ back to top ]
Legal Reasoning, Theory & Methodology Thinking like a lawyer: a new introduction to legal reasoning / Frederick Schauer, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. Reason in law / Lief H. Carter, Thomas F. Burke Publisher New York: Pearson Longman, 2007. Logic for Lawyers: a guide to clear legal thinking / by Ruggero J. Aldisert, South Bend, Ind.: National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 1997. The bramble bush: on our law and its study / K. N. Llewellyn, New York : Oceana Publications, 1981. An introduction to legal reasoning / Edward H. Levi, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1962]. [ back to top ]
How judges think / Richard A. Posner, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2008. The image of law: Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza / Alexandre Lefebvre, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press, 2008. The nature of the judicial process, by Benjamin N.Cardozo, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1921. [ back to top ]
Law 101: everything you need to know about the American legal system / Jay M. Feinman xford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. Introduction to the law and legal system of the U.S. / by William Burnham, St. Paul, MN : Thomson/West, 2006. American law and the American legal system in a nutshell / by Lloyd Bonfield Publisher St. Paul, MN : Thomson/West, 2006. American law in the 20th century / Lawrence M. Friedman, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. The dance of legislation/ Eric Redman, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. [ back to top ]
Books Best friends at the bar: What women need to know about a career in the law / Susan Smith Blakely, New York : Wolters Kluwer Law & Business/Aspen Publishers, 2009. Ending the gauntlet: removing barriers to women's success in the law / Lauren Stiller Rikleen, Eagan, Minn: Thomson/Legalworks, 2006. Databook on women in law school and in the legal profession / Produced by Law School Admission Council; editors-in-chief Gita Z. Wilder, Newton, PA : Law School Admission Council, 2003. Taking stock: women of all colors in law school: databook / Gita Wilder, Newton, PA: Law School Admission Council, 2003. A woman's guide to law school / Linda Hirshman, New York: Penguin Books, 1999. Don't just hear it through the grapevine : studying gender questions at your law school / American Bar Association, Commission on Women in the Profession Other Title(s) Studying gender questions at your law school Publisher Chicago, IL : American Bar Association, 1998. Becoming gentlemen : women, law school, and institutional change / Lani Guinier, Michelle Fine, Jane Balin, Boston: Beacon Press: 1997. Online Resources American Bar Association, Commission on Women in the Profession: http://www.abanet.org/women/ Feminist Law Professors Blog: http://feministlawprofessors.com/ [ back to top ]
Books Dear sisters, dear daughters: strategies for success from multicultural women attorneys / [C. Elisia, Frazier, Ernestine Forrest, editor] Publisher Chicago : American Bar Association, 2009. Outsiders within: black women in the legal academy after Brown v. Board / Elwood Watson Publisher Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. The language of law school: learning to "think like a lawyer" /Elizabeth Mertz, Oxford [England]; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. (Specifically see the following chapter: Student participation and social difference: race, gender, status, and context in law school classes.) Rebels in law: voices in history of Black women lawyers / edited by J. Clay Smith Jr., Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. Online Resources Diversity and the Legal Profession: The Next Steps, ABA Presidential Initiative Commission on Diversity, 2009-2010, American Bar Association, 2010. Visible invisibility: women of color in law firms / prepared for the Commission by Janet E. Gans Epner Publisher [Chicago]: American Bar Association, 2006. http://www.abanet.org/women/woc/VisiblySuccessful.pdf National Black Students Association: http://www.nblsa.org/ National Asian Pacific American Bar Assoc.: http://www.napaba.org/napaba/showpage.asp?code=home National Latina/o Students Association: http://www.nllsa.org/ [ back to top ]
Lawyers in your living room! : law on television / Michael Asimow, editor The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court/ Jeffrey Toobin, New York: Doubleday, 2007. A civil action / by Jonathan Harr, New York: Random House, 1995. Praying for sheetrock: a work of nonfiction / Melissa Fay Greene, Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1991. Buffalo Creek Disaster, Stern, Gerald M., New York: Random House, 1976. The Brethren: inside the Supreme Court / Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979. Gideon's trumpet, Anthony Lewis, London: Bodley Head, 1964. [ back to top ]
The international student's survival guide to law school in the United States: everything you need to succeed / Rachel Gader-Shafran, New York: iUniverse, 2003. [ back to top ]
Suffolk University Law School History Books Suffolk University/ David L. Robbins, Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2006. Suffolk University Law School, 1906-2006: Centennial Timeline: A Proud History of Access to Excellence/ Suffolk University Law School, Boston: Suffolk University Law School, 2006. Online Resources History of Suffolk Law School, http://www.law.suffolk.edu/about/history.cfm [ back to top ] This bibliography was compiled by Professor Renée Landers and Diane D'Angelo, Reference Librarian. Additional faculty members and Admissions Office staff provided valuable input. If you have any questions or comments please contact Diane D'Angelo, Reference Librarian. Last Updated June 4, 2010 |
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