Booklet Compilation of ABA Approved Law Schools Recommended Reading Lists May 11

Compilation of
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Compilation of ABA-Approved
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Table of Contents
University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law�� 6
Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School �� 7
Baylor University Law School�� 8
University at Buffalo School of Law�� 10
Capital University Law School�� 11
University of Connecticut School of Law�� 14
Dickinson Law, Penn State University�� 18
Elon University School of Law�� 20
University of Florida Levin College of Law�� 21
Harvard Law School�� 22
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law�� 23
University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law�� 26
Lewis & Clark Law School�� 28
Liberty University School of Law�� 32
University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law�� 33
University of Miami School of Law�� 35
University of Missouri School of Law�� 36
Mitchell Hamline School of Law�� 37
University of New Mexico School of Law�� 38
New York Law School�� 39
New York University School of Law�� 40
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Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law�� 41
Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law�� 42
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law�� 43
Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law�� 44
Regent University School of Law�� 45
University of Richmond School of Law�� 48
Saint Louis University School of Law�� 49
St. Mary’s University School of Law�� 50
St. Thomas University School of Law�� 51
Santa Clara University School of Law�� 52
Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law�� 54
Suffolk University Law School�� 55
Syracuse University College of Law�� 60
Temple University Beasley School of Law�� 61
Vanderbilt University Law School�� 62
University of Virginia School of Law�� 63
Washington and Lee University School of Law�� 64
Western New England School of Law�� 66
Widener University Delaware Law School�� 67
University of Wyoming College of Law�� 68
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University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
● After Nature (2015), by Jedediah Purdy

● Anatomy of a Murder (1958), by Robert Traver
● Angela’s Ashes (1999), by Frank McCourt
● Between the World and Me (2015), by Ta-Nehisi Coates
● The Children Act (2015), by Ian McEwan
● Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern District (2008), by Peter
Moskos
● Demon Camp: The Strange and Terrible Saga of a Soldier’s Return from War
(2014), by Jen Percy
● Euphoria (2014), by Lily King
● The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (1999), by Linda Gordon
● The Iliad and The Odyssey, by Homer
● In the Light of What We Know (2014), by Zia Haider Rahman
● In the Shadow of the Banyan: A Novel (2012), by Vaddey Ratner
● Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (2014), by Bryan Stevenson
● Presumed Innocent (1987), by Scott Turow
● Sarmada (2011), by Fadi Azzam
● Sisters in Law (2015), by Linda Hirshman
● Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs The Supreme Court (2010), by Jeff Shesol
● Thinking Fast and Slow (2011), Daniel Kahneman
● Unbroken (2010), by Laura Hillenbrand
● Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Justice (2015), by Adam Benforado
● Wolf Hall (2009), by Hilary Mantel
● Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz (2012), by Barbara Babcock
● On Being a Happy, Healthy, and Ethical Member of an Unhappy, Unhealthy and
Unethical Profession, 52 Vand L Rev 871 (1999), by Patrick J Schiltz
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Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School
● Legal Argument by James A. Gardner; Joseph Belluck; Laura L Aswad

● Law School Without Fear: Strategies for Success by Helene Shapo and Marshall
Shapo
● Black’s Law Dictionary
● Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams
● Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About American Law
● Law School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience: By
Students, for Students
● Starting off Right in Law School by Carolyn J. Nygren
● Strategies Tactics First Year Law Student (Maximize Your Grades) by Steven
Emanuel
● Learning Legal Reasoning by John Delaney; Anne Burgess (Illustrator)
● Succeeding in Law School by Herbert N. Ramy
● How to Do Your Best on Law School Exams by John Delaney; Anne Burgess
(Illustrator)
● My Life in Court by Louis Nizer
● One L by Scott Turow
● The Paper Chase by John Jay Osborn
● A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr; Marty Asher (Editor)
● Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose; David Mamet (Introduction by)
● Gideon’s Trumpet by Anthony Lewis
● My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
● The Majesty of the Law by Sandra Day O’Connor; Craig Joyce (Editor)
● Elena Kagan by Meg Greene
● The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Scott Dodson (Editor)
● John Paul Stevens by Bill Barnhart; Gene Schlickman
● David Hackett Souter by Tinsley E. Yarbrough
● A Defiant Life by Howard Ball
● The Supreme Court by William H. Rehnquist
● The Chamber by John Grisham
● The Client by John Grisham
● The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
● A Time to Kill by John Grisham
● The Firm by John Grisham

Baylor University Law School
● An Introduction to Legal Reasoning (Edward Levi)

● Law 101 (Jay M. Feinman)
● Simple Rules for a Complicated World (Richard Epstein)
● The Federalist Papers
● The Nature of the Judicial Process (Benjamin Nathan Cardozo)
● The Bramble Bush: Our Law and Its Study (Karl Llewllyn)
● 24 Hours with 24 Lawyers: Profiles of Traditional and Non-Traditional Careers
(Jasper Kim)
● Law vs Life (Walt Bachman)
● Should You Really Be a Lawyer (Deobrah Schneider)
● The Official Guide to Legal Specialties: An Insider’s Guide to Every Major Practice
Area (Lisa Abrams)
● To Be a Trial Lawyer (F Lee Bailey)
● Tomorrow’s Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future (Richard Susskin)
● The Lawyer Myth: A Defense of the American Legal Profession (Rennard Strickland
and Frank T. Read)
● The Lure of the Law: Why People Become Lawyers, and What the Profession Does
to Them (Richard Moll)
● 55 Successful Harvard Law School Application Essays: What Worked for Them Can
Help You Get Into the Law School of Your Choice (Staff of the Harvard Crimson)
● The Best Law Schools’ Admissions Secrets: The Essential Guide from Harvard’s
Former Admissions Dean (Joyce Curll)
● The Ivey Guide to Law School Admissions: Straight Advice on Essays, Resumes,
Interviews, and More (Anna Ivey)
● Getting To Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams (Richard Michael Fischl and
Jeremy Paul)
● Law School Confidential (Robert H Miller)
● Letters From Law School: The Life of a Second-Year Law Student (Lawrence
Dieker)
● One L (Scott Turow)
● The Law School Labyrinth: A Guide to Making the Most of Your Legal Education
(Steven Sedberry)
● An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law (Roscoe Pound)
● Law’s Empire (Ronald Dworkin)
● Punishment and Responsibility (HLA Hart)
● The Path of Law (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
● An Introduction to Law & Economics (Mitchell Polinsky)

● The Court and the Economic System, 98 Harvard Law Review 4 (1984) (Judge
Frank Easterbrook)
● A Matter of Interpretation (Antonin Scalia)
● The Tempting of America (Robert Bork)
● A Civil Action (Jonathan Harr)
● Gideon’s Trumpet (Anthony Lewis)
● The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Jeffrey Toobin)

The University at Buffalo School of Law
● The International Students’ Survival Guide to Law School in the United States -
Rachel Gader-Shafran
● Reading Like a Lawyer - Ruth Ann McKinney
● Finding Your Voice in Law School - Molly Bishop Shadel
● Writing Essay Exams to Succeed in Law School - John C. Dernbach
● Tomorrow’s Lawyers - Richard Susskind
● Legal Language - Peter M. Tiersm
● Succeeding As an International Student in the United States and Canada - Charles
Lipson; Allan E. Goodman (Foreword by)
● The Happy Lawyer - Nancy Levit; Douglas O. Linder
● The Constitution of 1787 - George Anastaplo
● Ordinary Injustice - Amy Bach
● On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City - Alice Goffman
● Courtroom 302 - Steve Bogira
● Whose Monet? - John A. Humbach
● My Beloved World - Sonia Sotomayor
● Flagrant Conduct - Dale A. Carpenter
● The U.S. Constitution and Fascinating Facts about It - Terry L Jordan
● The Collapse of American Criminal Justice - William J. Stuntz
● Rights of Inclusion - David M. Engel; Frank W. Munger
● Law 101 - Jay M. Feinman
● Alchemy of Race and Rights - Patricia J. Williams

Capital University Law School
● Burkhart, Ann M & Robert A Stein Law School Success in a Nutshell A Guide to
Studying Law and Taking Law School Exams (3d ed 2017)
● Carey, Christen Civiletto & Kristen David Adams The Practice of Law School:
Getting In and Making the Most of Your Legal Education (2003)
● Dernbach, John C. Writing Essay Exams to Succeed in Law School (Not Just to
Survive) (4th ed, 2014)
● Fischl, Richard Michael & Jeremy Paul Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law
School Exams (1999)
● Hegland, Kenney F Introduction to the Study and Practice of Law in a Nutshell (7th
ed 2017)
● Llewellyn, Karl N. The Bramble Bush: On Our Law and Its Study (1960)
● McClurg, Andrew J. 1L of a Ride: A Well-Traveled Professor’s Roadmap to Success
in the First Year of Law School (3d ed 2017)
● Mertz, Elizabeth The Language of Law School: Learning to “Think Like a Lawyer”
(2007)
● Moore, Albert J & David A Binder Demystifying the First Year of Law School: A Guide
to the 1L Experience (2010)
● Ramy, Herbert N Succeeding in Law School (2d ed 2010)
● Scalia, Antonin & Bryan A Garner Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges
(2008)
● Schwartz, Michael Hunter Expert Learning for Law Students (3d ed 2018)
● Shafiroff, Ira L. First-Year Law School Success: The Ultimate and Essential Guide
for Every 1L (4th ed 2018)
● Shapo, Helene & Marshall Shapo Law School Without Fear: Strategies for Success
(3d ed 2009)
● Stropus, Ruta K. & Charlotte D. Taylor Bridging the Gap between College and Law
School: Strategies for Success (3d ed 2014)
● Abrams, Lisa L. The Official Guide to Legal Specialties: An Insider’s Guide to Every
Major Practice Area (2000)
● Carey, Christen Civiletto Full Disclosure: The New Lawyer’s Must-Read Career
Guide (2d ed 2001)
● Dear Sisters, Dear Daughters: Strategies for Success from Multicultural Women
Attorneys (C. Elisia Frazier & Ernestine Forrest eds , 2009)
● Downey, Michael Introduction to Law Firm Practice (2010)
● Dunnewold, Mary L , Beth A. Honetschlager & Brenda L Tofte Judicial Clerkships: A
Practical Guide (2010)
● Farnsworth, Ward The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law (2007)

● Furi-Perry, Ursula Fifty Unique Legal Paths: How to Find the Right Job (2008)
● Hermann, Richard L. Landing a Federal Legal Job: Finding Success in the U.S.
Government Job Market (2011)
● Hermann, Richard L. Managing Your Legal Career: Best Practices for Creating the
Career You Want (2010)
● Lawyers, Lead On: Lawyers with Disabilities Share Their Insights (Carrie G. Basas,
Rebecca S. Williford & Stephanie L. Enyart eds , 2011)
● A Life in the Law: Advice for Young Lawyers (William S. Duffey, Jr. & Richard A.
Schneider eds., 2009)
● Munneke, Gary A. & Ellen Wayne The Legal Career Guide: From Law Student to
Lawyer (5th ed. 2008)
● Munneke, Gary A., William D. Henslee & Ellen Wayne Nonlegal Careers for Lawyers
(5th ed. 2006)
● Nerison, Rebecca Lawyers, Anger and Anxiety: Dealing With the Stresses of the
Legal Profession (2010)
● Parker, Monica R. What It Takes: How Women of Color Can Thrive Within the
Practice of Law (2010)
● Richard, Larry & Tanya Hanson The New What Can You Do with a Law Degree? A
Lawyer’s Guide to Career Satisfaction Inside, Outside & Around the Law (6th ed.
2012)
● The Woman Advocate (Abbe F. Fletman and Evelyn R. Storch eds., 2d ed. 2010)
● The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence (Jack N. Rakove
ed., 2009)
● Baum, Lawrence The Supreme Court (13th ed. 2019)
● Bonfield, Lloyd American Law and the American Legal System in a Nutshell (2006)
● Cardozo, Benjamin The Nature of the Judicial Process (1949)
● Carter, Lief H. & Thomas F. Burke Reason in Law (9th ed. 2016)
● Farnsworth, E. Allen An Introduction to the Legal System of the United States (Steve
Sheppard ed., 4th ed. 2010)
● Feinman, Jay M. Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About American Law (5th
ed. 2018)
● Friedman, Lawrence M. A History of American Law (3d ed. 2005)
● Hall, Kermit L. & Peter Karsten The Magic Mirror: Law in American History (2d ed.
2009)
● Judges on Judging: Views from the Bench (David M. O’Brien ed., 5th ed. 2017)
● McCloskey, Robert G. The American Supreme Court (Sanford Levinson ed., 6th ed.
2016)
● Rehnquist, William H. The Supreme Court (new ed. 2001)
● Toobin, Jeffrey The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (2007)

● Vidmar, Neil & Valerie P. Hans American Juries: The Verdict (2007)
● Biskupic, Joan American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court
Justice Antonin Scalia (2009)
● Cenziper, Debbie & Jim Obergefell Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who
Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality (2016)
● Coffey, Kendall Spinning the Law: Trying Cases in the Court of Public Opinion
(2010)
● Goldstein, Brandt Storming the Court: How a Band of Yale Law Students Sued the
President and Won (2005)
● Harr, Jonathan A Civil Action (1995)
● Kluger, Richard Simple Justice: The History of Brown vs. Board of Education and
Black America’s Struggle for Equality (revised & expanded ed. 2004)
● Lewis, Anthony Gideon’s Trumpet (1964)
● Newbeck, Phyl Virginia Hasn’t Always Been for Lovers: Interracial Marriage Bans
and the Case of Richard and Mildred Loving (2004)
● Stern, Gerald M. The Buffalo Creek Disaster (1977)
● Stern, Seth & Stephen Wermiel Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion (2010)

University of Connecticut School of Law
● Asylum Denied: A Refugee’s Struggle for Safety in America by David Ngaruri

Kenney and Philip Schrag
● The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the Survivors of One of the Worst Disasters in
Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company--And Won by Gerald
M. Stern
● The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial by Susan Eaton
● A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
● Damages: One Family’s Legal Struggles in the World of Medicine by Barry Werth
● The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court and the Betrayal
of Reconstruction by Charles Lane
● Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law and the Nation State by Robert Chang
● Dispensing with the Truth: The Victims, the Drug Companies, and the Dramatic
Story Behind the Battle over FenPhen by Alicia Mundy
● The Lost Promise of Civil Rights by Risa Goluboff
● The Making of Environmental Law by Richard Lazarus
● The Medical Malpractice Myth by Tom Baker
● The New Environmental Regulation by Daniel Fiorino
● No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System by
David Cole
● A Question of Intent: A Great American Battle with a Deadly Industry by David
Kessler Public Affairs Books, 2001
● Shades of Green by Neil Gunningham, Robert A. Kagan and Dorothy Thornton
● The Showdown at Gucci Gulch by Allan Murray
● Simple Justice by Richard Kluger
● And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice by Derrick Bell
● Covering: The Hidden Assault on our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino
● Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard Tahler
and Cass Sunstein
● The Race Card: How Bluffing about Bias Makes Race Relations Worse by Richard
Thompson
● Rebellious Lawyering: One Chicano’s Vision of Progressive Law Practice by Gerald
Lopez
● Rights of Inclusion: Law and Identity in the Life Stories of Americans with Disabilities
by David Engel and Frank Munger
● A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of ’08 and the Descent into Depression by
Richard A. Posner

● Love in the Driest Season by Neely Tucker
● Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect Our
Environment and Our Health by Revesz and Livermore
● The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors,
and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
● Cardozo by Andrew Kaufman, Harvard University Press, 1998
● Go East, Young Man by William D. Douglas Random House, 1974
● John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court by Kent Newmyer,
Louisiana State University Press, 2001
● The Judge in a Democracy by Aharon Barak, Princeton University Press, 2006
● The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (2007) by Jeffrey Toobin
Doubleday, 2007
● Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic by Kent
Newmyer, University of North Carolina Press, 1985
● The Supreme Court under Marshall and Taney, 2nd Edition by Kent Newmyer,
Harlan Davidson, 2006
● Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary by Juan Williams, Times Books, 1998
● The Lawyer Myth: A Defense of the American Legal Profession by Rennard
Strickland and Frank Read, Ohio University Press, 2008
● Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law by Leo Katz University
of Chicago Press, 1987
● The Canon of American Legal Thought by David Kennedy and William K. Fischer III
(2006)
● A Clearing in the Forest: Law, Life, and Mind by Steven Winter, University of
Chicago Press, 2003
● The Common Place of Law by Susan Silbey and Patricia Ewick, University of
Chicago Press, 1998
● Freedom’s Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution by Ronald
Dworkin, Harvard University Press, 1996
● Justice, Gender & the Family by Susan Moller, Okin Basic Books, Inc., 1989
● Justice in Robes by Ronald Dworkin, Harvard University Press, 2006
● The Politics of Law: A Progressive Critique, 3rd Ed., D. Kairys, ed., Basic Books,
Inc., 1998
● Law and the Fireside Inductions by Paul Meehl, The Journal of Social Issues, Vol.
27, no. 4, 1971, 65-100
● Lawyers and Justice: An Ethical Study by David Luban, Princeton University Press,
1988
● The Lost Lawyer: Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession by Tony Kronman, Harvard
University Press, 1995

● A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law by Antonin Scalia University,
Center for Human Values, 1998
● The Nature of the Judicial Process by Benjamin Cardozo, Yale University Press,
1921
● The Practice of Justice: A Theory of Lawyers’ Ethics by William Simon, Harvard
● Race and the Alchemy of Rights by Patricia Williams, Harvard University Press,
1991
● The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law by Randy E. Barnett, Oxford
● Simple Rules for a Complex World by Richard A. Epstein, Harvard University Press,
1995
● Taking Rights Seriously by Ronald Dworkin, Harvard University Press, 1977
● A Theory of Justice by John Rawls, Harvard University Press, 1971
● Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review by John Hart Ely, Harvard
● Original meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack
Rakove, Knopf, 1996
● The Least Dangerous Branch by Alexander M. Bickel, Yale University Press, 1962
● Pictures at an Execution: An Inquiry into the Subject of Murder by Wendy Lesser,
Harvard University Press, 1993
● Natural Law and Natural Rights by John Finnis, Oxford University Press, 1980
● Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law Daniel by Farber
and Suzanna Sherry, Oxford University Press, 1997
● Playing by the Rules by Frederick Schauer, Oxford University Press, 1991
● The Concept of Law by H. L. A. Hart, Oxford University Press, 1960
● Ages of American Law by Grant Gilmore Yale University Press, 1977
● A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (many editions)
● Bleak House by Charles Dickens (many editions)
● Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (many editions)
● The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (many editions)
● The Fall Albert by Camus Knopf, 1956
● The Heather Blazing by Colm Toibin, Penguin, 1995
● The Trial Franz by Kafka Schocken, 1965
● A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt (several editions)
● Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare (many editions)
● The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (many editions)
● Judge on Trial by Ivan Klima, Harcourt Brace, 1991
● A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis, Poseidon Press, 1994

● The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow, Random House, 1971
● In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Random House, 1966
● Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1987
● The Matthew Hope series by Ed McBain, Holt Publishers
● The John Marshall Tanner series by Stephen Greenleaf, Simon and Schuster
● The Brady Coyne series by William Tapply, various publishers
● Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading by Judges Antonin Scalia and Bryan A.
Garner
● Framing Contract Law: An Economic Perspective by Victor Goldberg, Harvard
● Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams by Michael Fischl & Jeremy
Paul, Carolina Academic Press, 1999
● Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About the American Legal System by Jay
M. Feinman, Oxford University Press, 2006
● Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic Against the System
by Duncan Kennedy, New York University Press, 2004
● One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School by Scott
Turow. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977

Dickinson Law – Penn State University
● The Next IQ: The Next Level of Intelligence for 21st Century Leaders by Arin N.
Reeves
● Your Brain and Law School: A Context and Practice Book by Marybeth Herald
● Tomorrow’s Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future, 2nd ed. by Richard Susskind
● Making Law Review: A Guide to the Write-On Competition, 2nd ed. by Wes Henricksen
● How to Grow a Lawyer: A Guide for Law Schools, Law Professors, and Law
Students by E. Scott Fruehwald
● 1000 Days to the Bar, But the Practice of Law Begins Now! by Dennis J Tonsing
● Introduction to the Study and Practice of Law in a Nutshell, 6th by Kenney F.
Hegland; Paula A. Franzese
● The Bramble Bush: The Classic Lectures on the Law and Law School by Karl N.
Llewellyn
● A Student’s Guide to Law School: What Counts, What Helps, and What Matters by
Andrew B. Ayers
● Law School Success in a Nutshell: A Guide to Studying Law and Taking Law School
Exams by Ann Burkhart; Robert Stein
● Learning Outside the Box: A Handbook For Law Students Who Learn Differently by
Leah M. Christensen
● Open Book: The Inside Track to Law School Success by Barry Friedman; John C.P.
Goldberg
● How To Succeed in Law School by E. Scott Fruehwald
● A Short and Happy Guide to Being a Law Student by Paula A. Franzese
● What Every Law Student Really Needs to Know by Jim George; Tracey E. George;
Suzanna Sherry
● Navigating the First Year of Law School: A Practical Guide to Studying Law by G.
Nicholas Herman; Melissa A. Essary; Zachary C. Bolitho
● The Law School Rules: 115 Survival Strategies to Make the Challenges of Law
School Seem Like “Small Stuff” by Marion T.D. Lewis
● Reading Like a Lawyer: Time-Saving Strategies for Reading Law Like an Expert,
2nd ed., by Ruth Ann McKinney
● Acing Your First Year of Law School: The Ten Steps to Success You Won’t Learn in
Class, 2nd ed. by Shana Connell Noyes; Henry S. Noyes
● Succeeding in Law School, 2nd ed. by Herbert N. Ramy
● Law School Without Fear: Strategies for Success by Helene S. Shapo; Marshall S.
Shapo
● Finding Your Voice in Law School: Mastering Classroom Cold Calls, Job Interviews,
and Other Verbal Challenges by Molly Bishop Shadel

● Bridging the Gap Between College and Law School by Ruta K. Stropus; Charlotte D.
Taylor
● Expert Learning for Law Students, 3rd ed. by Michael Hunter Schwartz; Paula J.
Manning
● Beyond One L: Stories About Finding Meaning and Making a Difference in Law by
Nancy Levit; Allen Rostron (Editors)
● 1L of a Ride: A Well-Traveled Professor’s Roadmap to Success in the First Year of
Law School, 3rd ed. by Andrew McClurg
● Mindfulness for Law Students: Using the Power of Mindful Awareness to Achieve
Balance and Success in Law School by Scott Rogers
● How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School by Kathryne M. Young
● Roadmap: The Law Student’s Guide to Meaningful Employment, 2nd ed. by Neil W.
Hamilton
● Ladder Down: Success Strategies for Lawyers From Women Who Will Be Hiring,
Reviewing, and Promoting You by Lauren Stiller Rikleen
● Dangerous Leaders: How & Why Lawyers Must Be Taught to Lead by Anthony C.
Thompson
● What Every Harvard Law Student Should Know by The Harvard Law Record:
Essential Essays for Reversing the Pull of the Corporate State and Launching a
Transformative Legal Career
● The Education of a Lawyer: Essential Skills and Uncommon Advice for Building A
Successful Career by Gary Muldoon
● The New Lawyer’s Handbook: 101 Things They Don’t Teach You in Law School by
Karen Thalacker
● A History of American Law, 3rd ed. by Lawrence M. Friedman
● Courting Justice: From NY Yankees v. Major League Baseball to Bush v. Gore,
1997-2000 by David Boies
● Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
● Think Like a Lawyer: Legal Reasoning for Law Students and Business Professionals
by Scott Fruehwald
● The Five Types of Legal Argument, 3rd ed. by Wilson Huhn
● Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About American Law, 5th ed. by Jay M.
Feinman
● Off the Charts Law Summaries: An All-In-One Graphic Outline of the 1L Law School
Courses by Julie Schechter
● The Student Loan Handbook for Law Students and Attorneys by Adam S. Minsky
● The Art of Cross-Examination by Francis Lewis Wellman; Michael E. Tigar
(Foreword)

Elon University School of Law
● One-L by Scott Turow

● The Paper Chase by John J. Osborne Jr
● To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
● The Bramble Bush by K. N. Llewellyn
● An Introduction to Legal Reasoning by Edward H. Levi
● The Official Guide to Law Schools
● The Nature of the Judicial Process by Benjamin N. Cardozo
● Justice Denied: The Case for Reform of the Courts by Leonard Downie
● Looking at Law School by Stephen Gillers
● The Law, The Supreme Court and the People’s Rights by Ann F. Ginger
● The Common Law by Oliver W. Holmes Jr.
● Justice in America: Courts, Lawyers, and the Judicial Process 2nd ed. by Herbert
Jacob
● Corporation Lawyer: Saint or Sinner? by Beryl Harold Levy

University of Florida Levin College of Law

● The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the Survivors of One of The Worst Disasters In
Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against The Coal Company – And Won by Gerald
M. Stern
● American Courts: Process and Policy by Lawrence Baum
● Expert Learning for Law Students by Michael Hunter Schwartz (2d ed.)
● Law School Exams: A Guide to Better Grades by Alex Schimel
● Law School Success in a Nutshell: A Guide to Studying Law and Taking Law School
Exams (3d ed.) by Ann M. Burkhart and Robert A. Stein
● Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams by Richard Michael Fischl
and Jeremy Paul
● Navigating The First Year of Law School: A Practical Guide To Studying Law by G.
Nicholas Herman, Melissa A. Essary and Zachary C. Bolitho
● “One-L of a Year”: How to Maximize Your Success in Law School by Leah
Christensen
● Plain English for Lawyers by Richard C. Wydick
● Starting Off Right in Law School by Carolyn J. Nygren
● The Introverted Lawyer: A Seven-Step Journey Toward Authentically Empowered
Advocacy by Heidi K. Brown

Harvard Law School
● Full Disclosure: The New Lawyer’s Must-Read Career Guide, Christen Civiletto
Carey
● The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law, Mark Herrmann
● Swimming Lessons for Baby Sharks, Grover E. Cleveland
● The Official Guide to Legal Specialties, Lisa L. Abrams
● Letters to a Young Lawyer, Alan Dershowitz
● 24 Hours with 24 Lawyers: Profiles of Traditional and Non-Traditional Careers, by
Jasper Kim
● What Can You Do with a Law Degree?: A Lawyer’s Guide to Career Alternatives
Inside, Outside and Around the Law, Deborah Arron
● Chambers Associate: Practice Areas Overviews

Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
● Floyd Abrams, Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment, 2005

● Akhil R. Amar, The Law of the Land: A Grand Tour of Our Constitutional Republic,
2015
● Paul Barrett, et al., A Year in the Life of the Supreme Court, 1995
● Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, 1998
● Robert M. Cover, Justice Accused: Antislavery and the Judicial Process
● Vine Deloria, Jr. and Clifford M. Lytle, The Nations Within: The Past and Future of
American Indian Sovereignty 1998
● Melvin A. Eisenberg, The Nature of the Common Law, 1988
● Richard A. Epstein, Simple Rules for a Complex World, 1995
● Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 1985
● Lawrence M. Friedman, American Law: An Introduction, 1984
● Alexander Hamilton, et al., The Federalist Papers, 1987
● Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, 1996
● Mona Harrington, Women Lawyers: Rewriting the Rules, 1994
● Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and
Black America’s Struggle for Equality, 1977
● Anthony T. The Lost Lawyer: Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession, 1993
● Edward Lazarus, Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern
Supreme Court, 1999
● Edward H. Levi, Introduction to Legal Reasoning, 1949
● Anthony Lewis, Gideon’s Trumpet, 1989
● Anthony Lewis, Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment, 1991
● Karl N. Llewellyn, The Bramble Bush: On Our Law and Its Study, 1960
● Gerald P. López, Rebellious Lawyering: One Chicano’s Vision of Progressive Law
Practice, 1992
● John T. Noonan, Jr., Narrowing the Nation’s Power: The Supreme Court Sides With
the States, 2002
● Richard Polenberg, Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, The Supreme Court, and
Free Speech, 1999
● Richard Posner, The Problems of Jurisprudence, 1990
● William H. Rehnquist, The Supreme Court, 2002
● Gerald N. Rosenberg, The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?,
1993
● Bernard Schwartz, A History of the Supreme Court, 1993
● Bernard Schwartz, Decision: How the Supreme Court Decides Cases, 1996

● William Shawcross, Deliver Us from Evil: Peacekeepers, Warlords, and a World of
Endless Conflict, 2001
● James F. Simon, The Center Holds: The Power Struggle Inside the Rehnquist Court,
1995
● J. Clay Smith, Rebels in Law: Voices in History of Black Women Lawyers, 1998
● Gerald M. Stern, The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the Survivors of One of the Worst
Disasters in Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company and Won,
1977
● Geoffrey R. Stone, Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from The Sedition Act
of 1798 to The War on Terrorism, 2004
● Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense, 1988
● Cass R. Sunstein, Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict, 1996
● James B. White, Legal Imagination: Studies in the Nature of Legal Thought and
Expression, 1973
● Robert Woodward & Scott Armstrong, The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court
● The Constitution of the United States
● Albert W. Aschuler, Law Without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice
Holmes, 2000
● Leonard Baker, John Marshall: A Life in Law, 1974
● Jack Bass, Unlikely Heroes, 1981
● Jack Bass, Taming the Storm: The Life and Times of Judge Frank M. Johnson and
the South’s Fight Over Civil Rights, 1993
● Kim Isaac Eisler, A Justice for All: William J. Brennan, Jr., and the Decisions That
Transformed America, 1993
● Linda Greenhouse, Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun’s Supreme Court
Journey, 2005
● Gerald Gunther, Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge, 1994
● Laura Kalman, Abe Fortas, 1990
● Andrew L. Kaufman, Cardozo, 1998
● Alpheus Thomas Mason, Brandeis: A Free Man’s Life
● Richard A. Posner, Cardozo: A Study in Reputation 1990
● Bernard Schwartz, Super Chief: Earl Warren and His Supreme Court, 1983
● Mark V. Tushnet, Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme
Court, 1994
● Mark V. Tushnet, Making Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme
Court, 1961-1991, 1997
● G. Edward White, Earl Warren: A Public Life, 1982
● G. Edward White, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self, 1993
● Benjamin Cardozo, The Nature of the Judicial Process, 1921

● Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia, 1974
● Robert Nozick, Philosophical Explanation, 1981
● John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, 1999
● Russell Banks, The Sweet Hereafter, 1992
● Charles Dickens, Bleak House, 1991
● George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1994
● John Grisham, The Chamber, 1995
● John Grisham, The Street Lawyer, 1998
● Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1999
● Franz Kafka, The Trial, 1992
● John Mortimer’s Rumpole series, perhaps beginning with Rumpole and the Younger
Generation, 1983
● Robert Traver, Anatomy of a Murder, 1983
● Scott Turow, Presumed Innocent, 1988
● Scott Turow, Burden of Proof, 1991
● Lani Guiner, et al., Become Gentlemen: Women, Law School, and Institutional
Change, 1997
● John J. Osborn, Jr., Paper Chase, 2003
● Helene Shapo & Marshall Shapo, Law School Without Fear: Strategies for Success
(2d ed.), 2002
● Scott Turow, One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School,
1997
● Ruggero J. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers (3d ed. 1997)
● Steven J. Burton, An Introduction to Law and Legal Reasoning, 1995
● Leif Carter, Reason in Law
● Tom Goldstein & Jethro K. Lieberman, The Lawyer’s Guide to Writing Well, 2002
● Kent Greenwalt, Legislation: Statutory Interpretation: 20 Questions, 1999
● Abner J. Mikva, An Introduction to Statutory Interpretation and the Legislative
Process, 1997
● Peter N. Simon, The Anatomy of a Lawsuit, 1984
● William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White, The Elements of Style (4th ed. 2000)
● Richard C. Wydick, Plain English for Lawyers (4th ed. 1994), 1998

University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law
● Law School Without Fear: Strategies for Success by Helene and Marshall Shapo
● Fifty Legal Careers for Non-Lawyers
● The Guide to Careers in Sports
● The Lawyer’s Career Change Handbook, More Than 300 Things You Can Do With a
Law Degree
● Nonlegal Careers for Lawyers
● Running from the Law - Why Good Lawyers are Getting out of the Legal Profession
● The (Un)Happy Lawyer - A Roadmap to finding Meaningful Work Outside of the Law
● What Can You Do with a Law Degree? - A Lawyer’s Guide to Career Alternatives
Inside, Outside & Around the Law
● The Essential Rules for Bar Exam Success - Learn the Keys to Passing the Bar
Exam the First Time
● Career Match - Connecting Who You Are with What You’ll Love to Do
● Do What You Are - Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of
Personality Type
● Should You Really Be a Lawyer? The Guide to Smart Career Choices Before,
During & After Law School
● The Creative Lawyer - A Practical Guide to Authentic Professional Satisfaction
● The Happy Lawyer - Making a Good Life in the Law
● The Complete Guide to Contract Lawyering - What Every Lawyer and Law Firm
Needs to Know about Temporary Legal Services
● Beyond Business Casual - What to Wear to Work If You Want to Get Ahead
● Career Warfare - 10 Rules for Building a Successful Personal Brand and Fighting to
Keep It
● The Etiquette Edge - The Unspoken Rules for Business Success
● Maximize Your Lawyer Potential - Professionalism and Business Etiquette for Law
Students and Lawyers
● The Modern Rules of Business Etiquette
● Multicultural Manners - New Rules of Etiquette for a Changing Society
● Careers in International Law, ABA Section of International Law
● High-Impact Interview Questions - 701 Behaviour-Based Questions to Find the
Right Person for Every Job
● An Insider’s Guide to Interviewing: Insights from the Employer’s Perspective
● Changing Jobs - A Handbook for Lawyers in the New Millenium
● Lessons from a Headhunter… with Heart
● The Directory of Minority Judges of the United States
● Judging: A Book for Student Clerks

● Judicial Clerkships - A Practical Guide
● America’s Greatest Places to Work with a Law Degree - And How to Make the Most
of Any Job, No Matter Where It Is!
● The Best of the Job Goddess - Phenomenal Job Search Advice from the Country’s
Most Popular Legal Job Search Columnist
● Guerrilla Tactics For Getting the Legal Job of Your Dreams
● How to Get the Job You Want in a Law Firm
● The Lawyer’s Guide to Finding Success in any Job Market
● Managing the Legal Search Consultant Relationship
● Objection Overruled - Overcoming Obstacles in the Lawyer Job Search
● The Right Moves: Job Search and Career Development Strategies for Lawyers
● How to Start & Build a Law Practice
● Solo by Choice - How to Be the Lawyer You Always Wanted to Be

Lewis & Clark Law School
● Archibald Cox’s The Role of the Supreme Court in American Government (1976)
● Bernard Schwartz’s A History of the Supreme Court (1993)
● Edward Lazarus’s Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall and Future of the Modern
Supreme Court (1998)
● Leon Friedman and Fred L Israel’s The Justices of the United States Supreme Court
(5 v., 1969-1978)
● Lincoln Kaplan’s The Tenth Justice: The Solicitor General and the Rule of Law
(1987)
● Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong’s The Brethren (1979)
● Alexander M. Bickel’s The Least Dangerous Branch: The Supreme Court at the Bar
of Politics (2d. ed. 1986)
● John Hart Ely’s Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review (1980)
● The Federalist short essays written by Madison, Hamilton and Jay
● Peter Irons and Stephanie Guitton’s May it Please the Court: 23 Live Recordings of
Landmark Cases as Argued Before the Supreme Court (cassette, 1993)
● Jerry Goldman’s The Supreme Court’s Greatest Hits (computer disk, 2002)
● History of the Supreme Court of the United States (also known as the “Holmes
Devise History”) by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
● Julius Goebel’s Antecedents and Beginnings to 1801
● The Marshall Court and Cultural Change, 1815-1835 by G. Edward White
● Owen Fiss’s Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State, 1888-1910
● Lawrence Friedman’s A History of American Law (2d.ed. 1985) American Law in the
20th Century (2002)
● Morton J. Horowitz’s The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 (1977) The
Transformation of American Law, 1870-1960 (1992)
● G. Edward White’s The American Judicial Tradition* (1976)
● Bernard Bailyn’s The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (enlarged ed.
1992)
● Gordon S. Wood’s The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (1969)
● Richard B. Morris’s Witnesses at the Creation: Hamilton, Madison, Jay and the
Constitution (1985)
● Louis Menand’s The Metaphysical Club (2001)
● Barry Nicholas’s An Introduction to Roman Law (1962)
● R.C. Van Caenegem’s The Birth of the English Common Law (2d ed.1988)
● Arthur R. Hogue’s The Origins of the Common Law (1966)
● Theodore F.T. Plucknett’s A Concise History of the Common Law, 5th ed. (1956)

● Carl T. Rowan’s Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood
Marshall (1993)
● Juan Williams’ Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary* (1998)
● Jean Edward Smith’s John Marshall, Definer of a Nation (1996)
● G. Edward White’s Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self (1993)
● Gerald Gunther’s Learned Hand (1994)
● Andrew L. Kaufman’s Cardozo (1998)
● Ed Cray’s Chief Justice* (1997)
● Jack Bass’s Taming the Storm, The Life and Times of Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr.,
and the South’s Fight Over Civil Rights (1993)
● David McCullough’s John Adams (2001)
● Joseph J. Ellis’s American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (1996)
● Ralph Ketcham’s James Madison (1971)
● Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton (2004)
● David Herbert Donald’s Lincoln (1995)
● Benjamin P. Thomas’s Abraham Lincoln (1952)
● John J. Duff’s A Lincoln, Prairie Lawyer (1960)
● William H. Harbaugh’s Lawyer’s Lawyer: The Life of John W. Davis (1973)
● Davis, Polk; Evan Thomas’s The Man to See: Edward Bennet Williams, Ultimate
Insider, Legendary Trial Lawyer (1991)
● Ken Gormley’s Archibald Cox (1997)
● David Chace’s Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World
(1998)
● Ann Fagan Ginger’s Carol Weiss King, Human Rights Lawyer, 1895-1952 (1993)
● David J Langum’s William M Kunstler: The Most Hated Lawyer in America (1999)
● Kevin Tierney’s Darrow (1979)
● Ann Fagan Ginger’s The Relevant Lawyers (1972)
● Emily Couric’s Women Lawyers: Perspectives on Success (1984)
● Constance Baker Motley’s Equal Justice Under Law: An Autobiography (1998)
● Alice Vachss’s Sex Crimes (1993)
● Catherine Drinker Bowen’s The Lion and the Throne, The Life and Times of Sir
Edward Coke* (1956)
● Richard Kluger’s Simple Justice (1975)
● Peter H. Schuck’s Agent Orange on Trial, Mass Toxic Disasters in the Courts (1987)
● Gerald M. Stern’s The Buffalo Creek Disaster* (1976)
● Jonathan Haar’s A Civil Action* (1995)
● Mary Beth Norton’s In the Devil’s Snare (2002)
● Anthony Lewis’s Gideon’s Trumpet* (1964)
● Anthony Lewis’s Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment (1991)

● Edward J. Larson’s Summer for the Gods (1998)
● Vincent Bugliosi’s Helter Skelter (1974)
● Telford Taylor’s The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir (1993)
● Ronald B. Lansing’s Juggernaut: The Whitman Massacre Trial (1993)
● Steven Brill’s Trial By Jury (1989)
● Scott Turow’s One L* (1977)
● Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr ’s The Path of the Law, 10 Harvard Law Rev 457 (1908)
● Lani Guinier’s Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law Schools, and Institutional
Change* (1997)
● Duncan Kennedy’s Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic
Against the System (1983)
● Karl Llewellyn’s Bramble Bush (new edition 1981)
● Steven Keeva’s Transforming Practices: Finding Joy and Satisfaction in the Legal
Life (1999)
● Anthony Kronman’s The Lost Lawyer: Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession (1993)
● Mona Harrington’s Women Lawyers: Rewriting the Rules (1993)
● Thomas A. Mauet’s Trial Techniques (6th ed. 2002)
● Gerry Spence’s How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)
● Edward H. Levi’s An Introduction to Legal Reasoning* (1949)
● Benjamin N. Cardozo’s The Nature of the Judicial Process (1921)
● Karl Llewellyn’s The Common Law Tradition: Deciding Appeals (1960)
● Robert Cover’s Justice Accused: Antislavery and the Judicial Process (1975)
● Lon Fuller’s The Case of the Spelunkean Explorers, 62 Harvard L Rev 616 (1949)
● H. L. A. Hart’s The Concept of Law (2d ed. 1994)
● Richard Posner’s Economic Analysis of Law (3d ed. 1992)
● Jerome Frank’s landmark Law and the Modern Mind (1930)
● Ronald Dworkin’s Law’s Empire (1986)
● Martha Minow’s Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law
(1990)
● Catherine MacKinnon’s Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989)
● Robin L. West’s The Difference in Women’s Hedonic Lives: A Phenomenological
Critique of Feminist Legal Theory, 3 Wisconsin Women’s Law J 81 (1987)
● Roberto Mangabeira Unger’s The Critical Legal Studies Movement (1986)
● Owen M. Fiss’s Objectivity and Interpretation, 34 Stanford Law Rev 739 (1982)
● Ronald Coase’s The Firm, the Market and the Law (1988)
● Richard Delgado and Jean Stefanic’s Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (2001)
● Patricia William’s The Alchemy of Race and Rights (1991)
● Lee Harper’s To Kill A Mockingbird
● Charles Dickens’s Bleak House

● Franz Kafka’s The Trial
● Hermann Melville’s Billy Budd, Foretopman
● Anthony Trollope’s Orley Farm
● Barbara Kingsolver’s Pigs in Heaven
● Sophocles’s Antigone
● Aeschylus’s Oresteia
● Grant Gilmore’s The Death of Contract (1974)
● Susan Estrich’s Real Rape (1987)
● Hugo Adam Bedau’s The Death Penalty in America (1997)
● William N. Eskridge Jr ’s Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet (1999)
● Michael C. Blumm’s Sacrificing the Salmon: A Legal and Policy History of the
Decline of the Columbia Basin Salmon (2002)
● Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum’s Animal Rights: Current Debates and New
Directions (2004)
● Frank Easterbrook and Dan Fischel’s The Economic Structure of Corporate Law
(1991)
● Lawrence Lessig’s The Future of Ideas (2001)

Liberty University School of Law
● A Practical Guide to Legal Writing and Legal Method, 6th ed., by John C. Dernbach,
Richard V. Singleton II, Cathleen S. Wharton, Joan M. Ruhtenberg, & Catherine J.
Wasson (Wolters Kluwer, 2017)
● Legal Analysis: 100 Exercises for Mastery, 2nd ed., by Cassandra L. Hill & Katherine
T. Vukadin (Carolina Academic Press, 2017)
● Criminal Law: Doctrine, Application, and Practice, 2nd ed., by Jens David Ohlin
(Wolters Kluwer, 2018)

University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School Of Law
● Burkhardt, Ann & Robert Stein, How to Study Law and Take Law Exams (West
1996)
● Civiletto Carey, Christen & Kristen David Adams, Practice of Law School: Getting In
and Making the Most of Your Legal Education (ALM Pub 2003)
● Editors of JD Jungle and jdjungle com, JD Jungle Law School Survival Guide
(Carolina Academic Press 2004)
● Falcon, Atticus, Planet Law School II: What You Need to Know (Before You Go) –
But Didn’t Know to Ask – And No One Else Will Tell You (Fine Print Press 2003)
● Gershman, Bennett L. & Lissa Griffin, The Law School Experience
● Hegland, Kenney F., Introduction to the Study and Practice of Law in a Nutshell
(Thomson West 2003)
● Hricik, David, Law School Basics: A Preview of Law School and Legal Reasoning
(Nova Press 2000)
● Miller, Robert H., Law School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Law School
Experience: By Students, For Students (St. Martin’s Griffin 2004)
● Munneke, Gary A., How to Succeed in Law School (Barron’s Educational Series
2001)
● Noyes, Shana Connell & Henry S. Noyes, Acing Your First Year of Law School: The
Ten Steps to Success You Won’t Learn in Class (Fred B. Rothman 1999)
● Schwartz, Michael Hunter, Expert Learning for Law Students (Western State
University College of Law 2003)
● Shapo, Helene S. & Marshall Shapo, Law School Without Fear: Strategies for
Success (Foundation Press 2002)
● Stropus, Ruta K. & Charlotte D. Taylor, Bridging the Gap Between College and Law
School: Strategies for Success (Carolina Academic Press 2001)
● Fine, Toni, American Legal Systems (Anderson Publishing 1997)
● Tonsing, Dennis J., 1000 Days to the Bar, But the Practice of Law Begins Now
(William S. Hein 2003)
● Block, Gertrude, Effective Legal Writing for Law Students and Lawyers (5th ed.
1999)
● Brody, Susan, et al., Legal Drafting Chapter 3: Write Carefully (1994)
● Dickerson, Darby, Less is More: Use the Delete Key to Streamline Legal Writing, 8
Ill B J 185 (Apr 1997)
● Dumond, Van, Grammar for Grownups (1993)
● Strunk, Jr, William and E B. White, The Elements of Style (3rd ed. 1979)
● Wydick, Richard C., Plain English for Lawyers (3rd ed. 1994)
● Harr, Jonathan, A Civil Action (Random House 1995

● Meltzer, Brad, The Tenth Justice (Warner Books 1998)
● Turow, Scott, One L (Warner Books 1997)

University of Miami School of Law
● Law School Exams – A Guide to Better Grades, by Alex Schimel (Miami Law’s
Associate Director of the Academic Achievement Program and Lecturer in Law)
● Bridging the Gap Between College and Law School: Strategies for Success, by Ruta
Stropus and Charlotte Taylor
● Reading Like a Lawyer, by Ruth Ann McKinney
● Succeeding in Law School, by Herbert Ramy

University of Missouri School of Law
● Understanding Law School

● Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About the American Legal System by Jay
Feinman
● Acing Your First Year of Law School: The Ten Steps to Success You Won’t Learn in
Class by Shana & Henry Noyes
● The Law School Experience: Law, Legal Reasoning, and Lawyering by Lissa Griffin
& Bennett Gershman
● A Practical Guide to Writing Law School Essay Exams by John Dernbach
● Expert Learning for Law Students by Michael H. Schwartz
Law School by Andrew J. McClurg
● Reading Like a Lawyer: Time-Saving Strategies for Reading Law Like an Expert by
Ruth Ann McKinney
● Succeeding in Law School by Herbert N. Ramy
● Bridging the Gap between College and Law School: Strategies for Success by Ruta
K. Stropus and Charlotte D. Taylor
● Illusions of Competence: Using Empirical Research on Undergraduate Study
Behaviors to Maximize Law Learning by Jennifer M. Cooper
● The Companion Text to Law School: Understanding and Surviving Life with a Law
Student by Andrew J. McClurg

Mitchell Hamline School of Law
● Herbert N. Ramy, Succeeding in Law School (2d ed.)

● Ruta K. Stropus and Charlotte D. Taylor, Bridging the Gap (3d ed.)
● Anthony Lewis, Gideon’s Trumpet and Make No Law
● Catherine Drinker Bowen, The Lion and the Throne (the life and times of Sir Edward
Coke)
● Stephen Breyer, Active Liberty
● Bryan Garner, The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style
● Richard Wydick, Plain English for Lawyers
● Steve J. Burton, Introduction to Law and Legal Reasoning
● John A. Humbach, Whose Monet: An Introduction to the American Legal System
● Michael G. Trachtman, The Supremes’ Greatest Hits (2nd ed )
● Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
● Richard Michael Fischl and Jeremy Paul, Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law
School Exams
● Nancy Levit & Douglas O. Linder, The Happy Lawyer: Making a Good Life in the
Law
● Barry Friedman, Open Book: Succeeding on Exams from the First Day of Law
School
● Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
● David Ngaruri Kenney and Philip G. Schrag, Asylum Denied: A Refugee’s Struggle
for Safety in America
● Robert L. Tsai, America’s Forgotten Constitutions: Defiant Visions of Power and
Community
● Margaret Jane Radin, Boilerplate: The Fine Print, Vanishing Rights, and the Rule of
Law
● Ward Farnsworth, The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law
● Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health,
Wealth and Happiness

University of New Mexico School of Law
● 1000 Days to the Bar - But the Practice of Law Begins Now: How to achieve your
personal best in Law School, Dennis J. Tonsing ISBN: 0837737265 Publisher:
William S. Hein & Company
● Bridging the Gap Between College and Law School: Strategies for Success Ruta K.
Stropus, Charlotte D. Taylor ISBN: 0890899452 Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
● Law School Survival Manual, from LSAT to Bar Exam Nancy Rapoport and Jeffrey
Van Niel ISBN: 0735594902 Publisher: Aspen Publishers
● Law School without Fear: Strategies for Success Helene Shapo and Marshall Shapo
ISBN: 1599414198 Publisher: Foundation Press
● One L of a Ride: A Well-Traveled Professor’s Roadmap to Success in the First Year
of Law School Andrew McClurg ISBN: 0314283056 Publisher: West
● Planet Law School II: What You Need to Know (before you go)…but Didn’t Know to
Ask Atticus Falcon, Esq. ISBN: 1888960507 Publisher: Fine Print Press Ltd
● Succeeding in Law School Herbert Ramy ISBN: 1594607400 Publisher: Carolina
Academic Press

New York Law School
● Happy Lawyer by Dirk Davidek; Beverly Davidek

● How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School by Kathryne M. Young
● The Law Book by Michael H. Roffer
● Chasing Gideon by Karen Houppert
● Beyond One L by Nancy Levit; Allen Rostron
● What Every Law Student Really Needs to Know by Jim George; Susanna Sherry
● Get a Running Start by Donald Gifford; Mark Graber; David Gray; William Richman;
Michael Van Alstine
● A Short and Happy Guide to Being a Law Student by Paula A. Franzese
● Advocacy to Zealousness: Learning Lawyering Skills from Classic Films by Kelly
Lynn Anders
● Later-in-Life Lawyers by Charles Cooper; Thane Messinger (Foreword by)
● Starting off Right in Law School - 2d ed. by Carolyn J. Nygren
● The Jim Report by James Reavis
● What the L? 25 Things We Wish We’d Known Before Going to Law School by
Kelsey May, Samantha Roberts & Elizabeth Shelton
● Coming to Law School by Ian Gallacher
● Movie Therapy for Law Students by Sonia J. Buck
● Ivy Briefs: True Tales of a Neurotic Law Student by Martha Kimes
● Pinstripes and Pearls: The Women of the Harvard Law Class of ’64 Who Forged an
Old Girl Network and Paved the Way for Future Generations by Judith Richards
● A Student’s Guide to Legal Analysis: Thinking Like a Lawyer by Patrick M.
McFadden
● The Bramble Bush: Some Lectures on Law and Its Study by Karl N. Llewellyn

New York University School of Law
● Roger L. Martin & Sally Osberg, Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition,
Stanford Social Innovation Review 29 (Spring 2007)
● Paul C. Light, The Search for Social Entrepreneurship (2008)
● Jed Emerson & Sheila Bonini, The Blended Value Map: Tracking the Intersects and
Opportunities of Economic, Social and Environmental Value Creation (2004)
● Pamela Hartigan & John Elkington, The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social
Entrepreneurs Create Markets that Change the World (2008)
● Michael Edwards, Just Another Emperor? The Myths and Realities of
Philanthrocapitalism (2008)
● Jed Emerson et al , Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Addressing the Critical Gaps
in Risk-Taking Capital for Social Enterprise (2007)
● Bill Drayton, Everyone a Changemaker: Social Entrepreneurship’s Ultimate Goal,
Innovations 80 (Winter 2006)

Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
● The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Author: Lewis

● A Civil Action Author: Harr
● Contracts in a Nutshell Author: Skrocki
● The Elements of Style Author: Strunk Jr & White
● The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You
Do Business Author: Christensen
● Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About American Law Author: Feinman
● Law School Without Fear: Strategies for Success Author: Shapo
● Not So Obvious: An Introduction to Patent Law and Strategy Author: Schox
● Plain English for Lawyers Author: Wydick

Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law
● Bridging the Gap Between College and Law School: Strategies for Success By Ruta
K. Stropus and Charlotte D. Taylor
● Planet Law School: What You Need to Know (Before Your Go), But Didn’t Know to
Ask… and No One Else Will Tell You, Second Edition By Atticus Falcon
● Anarchy and Elegance: Confessions of a Journalist at Yale Law School By Chris
Goodrich
● Law School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience By
Robert H. Miller
● How to Succeed in Law School, Third Edition By Gary A. Munneke
● Starting Off Right in Law School By Carolyn J. Nygren
● Reading Like a Lawyer By Ruth Ann McKinney
● The Paper Chase By John J. Osborn
● One L By Scott Turow

University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law
● Kimm Walton, Guerilla Tactics for Getting the Legal Job of Your Dreams
● Lisa Abrams, Official Guide to Legal Specialties
● Debra M. Strauss, Behind the Bench — The Guide to Judicial Clerkships
● Donna Gerson, Choosing Small, Choosing Smart
● Kimm Walton, America’s Greatest Places to Work with a Law Degree
● Deborah Aaron, What You Can Do with a Law Degree
● Donna Gerson, Building Career Connections — Networking Tools for Law Students
and New Lawyers
● NALP Directory
● Alumni Mentors
● Career Development Handout Series

Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law
● Jerry Kang, National Campaign to Ensure the Racial and Ethnic Fairness of
America’s State Courts, Implicit Bias - A Primer for Courts (August 2009)
● Chris Guthrie, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, & Andrew J. Wistrich, Blinking on the Bench:
How Judges Decide Cases, 93 Cornell L Rev 1 (2007),
● Shankar Vedantam, See No Bias, The Washington Post Magazine 12, January 23,
2005
● Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2007)
● Shankar Vedantam, The Hidden Brain (2010)

Regent University School of Law
● Bridging the Gap Between College and Law School: Strategies for Success, Ruta K.
Stropus and Charlotte D. Taylor, Carolina Academic Press, 2001
● The Eight Secrets of Top Exam Performance in Law School: An Easy to Use,
Step-by-Step Program for Achieving Great Grades!, Harcourt Legal & Professional
Publications, Inc., 1997
● How to Read the Bible for All It’s Worth, 3rd edition, Gordon Fee and Douglas
Stuart, Zondervan, 1993
● The Elements of Legal Style, 2nd edition, Bryan A. Garner, Oxford University Press,
2002
● Plain English for Lawyers, 5th edition, Richard C. Wydick, Carolina Academic Press,
1998
● The Elements of Style, 4th edition, Will Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White, Longman, 1999
● Fowler’s Modern English Usage, 3rd revised edition, R.W. Burchfield, Oxford
● One-L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School, reprint
edition, Scott Turow, Penguin Books, 2010
● Defending the Declaration: How the Bible and Christianity Influenced the Writing
of the Declaration of Independence, 1st edition, Gary T. Amos, Wolgemuth & Hyatt
Publishing, 1989
● The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, Signet
Classics, 2003
● Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to
September 1787, 1st edition, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Back Bay Books, 1986
● Debate of the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles & Letters
During the Struggle Over Ratification, Part Two: January to August 1788, Edited by
Bernard Bailyn, Library of America, 1993
● No Liberty for License: The Forgotten Logic of the First Amendment, first edition,
David Lowenthal, Spence Publishing Company, 1997
● 50 Questions on the Natural Law: What It Is and Why We Need It, Charles E. Rice,
Ignatius Press, 1999
● The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke, first edition,
Catherine D. Bowen, Little Brown & Co., 1990
● The Tradition of Natural Law: A Philosopher’s Reflections, Yves Rene Simon and
Vukan Kuic, Fordham University Press, 1999
● Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law & Education,
Phillip E. Johnson, InterVarsity Press, 1998

● The Rise of Modern Judicial Review: From Judicial Interpretation to Judge-Made
Law, revised edition, Christopher Wolfe, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1994
● A Nation Under Lawyers: How the Crisis in the Legal Profession Is Transforming
American Society, 1st edition, Mary Ann Glendon, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994
● Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault of Truth in American Law, Daniel Farber
and Susanna Sherry, Oxford University Press, 1997 The Death of Common Sense:
How Law is Suffocating America, Philip K. Howard, Grand Central Publishing, 1996
● Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality, Robert P. George, Oxford
● The Interaction of Law and Religion, Harold J. Berman, Abingdon Press, 1974
Crime and Its Victims: What We Can Do, Daniel W. Van Ness, InterVarsity Press,
1986
● Justice that Restores, Charles W. Colson, Tyndale House Publishers, 2001
● Restoring Justice, Dan Van Ness and Karen Heetderks Strong, 2nd edition,
Anderson Publishing Co., 2001
● The Peacemaker: A Biblical Guide to Resolving Personal Conflict, 3rd edition, Ken
C. Sande, Baker Books, 2000
● In Search of Atticus Finch: A Motivational Book for Lawyers, Mike Papantonio,
Seville Publishing, 1998
● Redeeming Law: Christian Calling and the Legal Profession, Michael P. Schutt,
InterVarsity Press, 2007
● Burden of Truth: Defending the Truth in an Age of Unbelief, Charles W. Colson and
Anne Morse, Tyndale House Publishers, 1998
● The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life, Os Guinness,
Thomas Nelson Publishing, 2003
● Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis, Harper San Francisco, 2009
● The Other Six Days: Vocations, Work, and Ministry in Biblical Perspective, R. Paul
Stevens, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2000
● Out of the Saltshaker: Evangelism as a Way of Life, Rebecca Manley Pippert,
InterVarsity Press, 1999
● Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture, Gene
Edward Veith, Jr., Crossway Books, 1994
● The Sensate Culture, Harold O.J. Brown, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2007
● The Law as Literature, Ephraim London, Simon & Schuster, 1966
● Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
● 1984, George Orwell, Signet Classic, 1950
● To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, Grand Central Publishing, 1988
● Witness, Whittaker Chambers, Regnery Publishing, 1987

● Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Jean Arthur, James Stewart, and Claude Rains,
Columbia Tristar, 1939
● The Oxbow Incident, Anthony Quinn, Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, and Harry
Morgan, Twentieth Century Fox, 1942
● Young Mr. Lincoln, Henry Fonda and Lamar Trotti, Twentieth Century Fox, 1939
● Anatomy of a Murder, James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazarra, Eve Arden, and
George C. Scott, Columbia Tristar, 1959
● Adam’s Rib, Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1949
● Judgment at Nuremburg, Spencer Tracy and Maximillian Schnell, United Artists,
1961
● Witness for the Prosecution, Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, and Charles
Laughton, MGM-Pathe Communications, 1957
● Breaker Morant, Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, and Bryan
Brown, South Australian Film Corp., 1979
● Twelve Angry Men, Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, United Artists, 1957
● A Civil Action, John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Stephen Fry, James Gandolfini, Dan
Hedaya, Zeljko Ivanek, and John Lithgow, Touchstone Pictures, 1999

University of Richmond School of Law
● Plain English for Lawyers by Richard Wydick, Carolina Academic Press, 2005
● Legal Analysis: The Fundamental Skill, 2d edition by David S. Romantz and
Kathleen Elliott Vinson Carolina Academic Press, 2009
● Law School Without Fear: Strategies for Success by Helene Shapo and Marshall
Shapo, West Academic Press, 2009
● One L of a Ride: A Well-Traveled Law Professor’s Roadmap to Success in the First
Year of Law School by Andrew J. McClurg, West Academic Press, 2017
● https://twitter com/neal_katyal/status/914493979051388930?lang=en – By Neal Katyal
● Bleak House: Narratives in Literature and Law School by John J Osborne 52 N Y
L Sch L Rev 339 (2007)
● How to Have a Good Day by Caroline Webb
● Legal Ethics: Law Stories by Deborah L. Rhode and David Luban, eds., West
Academic Press, 2006
● Tomorrow’s Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future by Richard Susskind
● A Civil Action by Jonathon Harr, Various eds., 1996 (environmental pollution cases)
● Gideon’s Trumpet by Anthony Lewis, Various eds., 1964 (Gideon v. Wainwright, the
case that established the constitutional right to a lawyer )
● Make No Law by Anthony Lewis, Various eds ,1991 (New York Times v. Sullivan, an
important case about press freedom )
● The Buffalo Creek Disaster by Gerald Stern, 2d ed., 2008 (Litigation growing out of
a mining disaster)
● In addition to these books, Foundation Press has published a series of books that
examine ten to fifteen famous cases in a particular area of law Each chapter in
these books focuses on a different famous case, describing the facts and holding of
the case, legal and historical context, and the significance of the case This series
includes, Civil Procedure Stories, Constitutional Law Stories, and Business Tax
Stories
● Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph Ellis, Various eds.,
2000 (Describing six critical events and decisions that shaped the U.S. Constitution)
● A Short History of the United States by Robert V. Remini
● American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph Ellis, Various eds.,
1998
● John Adams by David McCullough, Various eds., 2002
● Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, Various eds., 2005
● Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, Spiegel & Grau, 2015
● How Can You Represent Those People, Edited by Abbe Smith and Monroe H.
Freedman, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Saint Louis University School of Law

● Outcasts United by Warren St. John
● Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by
Conor Grennan
● Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle
● Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario
● When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
● Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, in the Struggle for the Soul of a
Generation by Eboo Patel
● Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would
Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
● Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace - One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
● Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-year-old Company that Changed the
World by Chris Lowney

St. Mary’s University School of Law
● Michael S. Ariens, Law School: Getting In, Getting Out, Getting On (2010)
● Karl N. Llewellyn, The Bramble Bush: The Classic Lectures on the Law and Law
School (2008)
● Allan Farnsworth, An Introduction to the Legal System of the United States, Fourth
Edition (2010)
● Linda Greenhouse, The United States Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction
(2012)
● Lawrence M. Friedman, History of American Law, Third Edition (2005)
● Anthony Lewis, Gideon’s Trumpet (1989)
● Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action (1996)
● Matthew Desmond, Evicted (2016)
● Anthony Weston, A Rulebook for Arguments (2008)
● William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition (1999)
● Richard C. Wydick, Plain English for Lawyers, Fifth Edition (2005)
● Wolters Kluwer Bouvier Law Dictionary, Compact Edition (2011)
● Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
● John Grisham, Sycamore Row (2013)
● John Jay Osborne Jr., The Paper Chase (1971)

St. Thomas University School of Law
● John Makdisi and Michael Makdisi, Introduction to the Study of Law: Cases and
Materials
● Benjamin N. Cardozo, The Nature of the Judicial Process
● Jay M. Feinman, Law 101: Everything you Need to Know About the American Legal
System
● Hon. Ruggero J. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers: A Guide to Clear Legal Thinking
● Richard Michael Fischl and Jeremy Paul, Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law
School Exams
● David Hricik, Law School Basics: A Preview of Law School and Legal Reasoning
● Richard C. Wydick, Plain English for Lawyers
● Alan Dershowitz, Letters to a Young Lawyer
● Ward Farnsworth, The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law
● Ruth Ann Mckinney, Reading Like a Lawyer: Time-Saving Strategies for Reading
Like a Lawyer (2nd Edition)
● Ruta Stropas and Charlotte Taylor, Bridging the Gap Between College and Law
School: Strategies for Success
● Andrew McClurg, 1L of a ride: A Well-Traveled Professor’s Roadmap to Success in
the First Year of Law School
● Karl N. Llewllyn, The Bramble Bush
● Franz Kafka, The Trial
● Caterine Mckinnon, Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws
● Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
● Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action
● Lenora Ledwon, Harry Potter and the Law (2010)
● Andrew McClurg, The “Companion Text “ to Law School: Understanding and
Surviving Life with a Law Student

Santa Clara University School of Law
● 1000 Days to the Bar But the Practice of Law Begins Now (Dennis J. Tonsing 2010)
● Deconstructing Legal Analysis: A 1L Primer (Peter Wendel 2009)
● Expert Learning for Law Students (Michael Hunter Schwartz 2008)
● Getting to Maybe (Richard M. Fischl and Jeremy Paul 1999)
● Law School Survival Kit (Jeff Adachi 1999)
● The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law (Ward Farnsworth 2007)
● Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Carol Dweck 2007)
● Reading Like a Lawyer: Time Saving Strategies for Reading Law Like an Expert
(Ruth Ann McKinney 2005)
● Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir (John Paul Stevens 2011)
● My Beloved World (Sonia Sotomayor 2013)
● The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Jeffrey Toobin 2007)
● 8 (Dustin Lance Black 2011)
● Bending the Law: The Story of the Dalkon Shield Bankruptcy (Richard Sobol 1993)
● Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence vs. Texas (Dale Carpenter 2012)
● Gideon’s Trumpet (Anthony Lewis 1964)
● New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century
Manhattan (Jill Lepore 2005)
● Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America’s
Struggle for Racial Equality (Richard Kluger 2004)
● The Snail Darter and the Dam: How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Little Fish
and Killed a River (Brandt Goldstein 2006)
● Storming the Court: How a Band of Law Students Fought the President – and Won
(Brandt Goldstein 2006)
● The Agent: My 40-Year Career Making Deals and Changing the Game (Leigh
Steinberg 2014)
● The American Legal System and Civic Engagement: Why We All Should Think Like
Lawyers (Kenneth Manaster 2013)
● The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Michael Lewis 2011)
● Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens
Creativity (Siva Vaidhyanathan 2003)
● Our Nation Unhinged (Peter Honigsberg 2009)
● The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Michelle
Alexander 2012)
● No Constitutional Right to be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship
(Linda Kerber 1999)

● Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America (Stephanie
Wildman 1996)
● Thinking About Crime: Sense and Sensibility in American Penal Culture (Michael
Tonry 2006)
● Bleak House (Charles Dickens 1853)
● The Crucible (Arthur Miller 1953)
● The Descendants (Kaui Hart Hemmings 2007)
● To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee 1960)
● The Trial (Franz Kafka 1925)
● Best Friends at the Bar: What Women Need to Know about a Career in the Law
(Susan Blakely 2009)
● Guerilla Tactics for Getting the Legal Job of Your Dreams (Kimm Alayne Walton
2008)
● The Official Guide to Legal Specialties (NALP 2000)
● Tomorrow’s Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future (Richard Susskind 2013)
● Disorderly Conduct: Excerpts from Actual Cases (Rodney Jones, Charles Sevilla,
and Gerald Uelmen 1999)

Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law

Law School, by Andrew J. McClurg
● What Every Law Student Really Needs to Know: An Introduction to the Study of Law
(2nd ed.) by Tracey E. George and Suzanna Sherry
● An Introduction to the Legal System of the United States (4th ed.), by E. Allan
Farnsworth
● The United States Legal System, An Introduction (4th ed.), by Margaret Z. Johns
and Rex R. Perschbacher
● Whose Monet? An Introduction to the American Legal System, 2E by John
Humbach
● An Introduction to Legal Reasoning, by Edward H. Levi
● Logic for Lawyers: A Guide to Clear Legal Thinking, by Ruggero J. Aldisert
● Becoming Justice Blackman, by Linda Greenhouse
Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company – and Won, by Gerald
M. Stern
● A Civil Action, by Jonathan Harr
● Gideon’s Trumpet, by Anthony Lewis
● In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
● Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South, by Dan T. Carter
● Simple Justice, by Richard Kluger
● Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over
Science and Religion, by Edward J. Larson
● Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer’s Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty, by
Scott Turow
● Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas, by Dale Carpenter
● Lawtalk: The Unknown Stories Behind Familiar Legal Expressions, by Elizabeth
Thornburg
● Mrs. Shipley’s Ghost: The Right to Travel and Terrorist Watchlists, by Jeffrey Kahn
● American Law: An Introduction (3rd ed.), by Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M.
Hayden
● Anatomy of a Murder, by Robert Traver
● The Crucible, by Arthur Miller
● Native Son, by Richard Wright
● To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

Suffolk University Law School
● Starting off Right in Law School / Carolyn J. Nygren, Durham, NC: Carolina
● The Zen of Law School Success / Chad Noreuil, Durham, NC: Carolina Academic
Press, 2011
● Law School Confidential: The Complete Law School Survival Guide: By Students,
for Students / Robert H. Miller, New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2011
● Succeeding in Law School / Herbert N. Ramy, Durham, NC: Carolina Academic
Press, 2010
● Coming to Law School: How to Prepare Yourself for the Next Three Years / Ian
Gallacher, Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2010
● Law School Survival Manual: From LSAT to Bar Exam / Nancy B. Rapoport and
Jeffrey D. Van Niel, Austin: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business; New York: Aspen
Publishers, 2010
● Hard-nosed Advice from a Cranky Law Professor: How to Succeed in Law School /
Austen L. Parrish and Cristina C. Knolton, Durham, NC: 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
● What the L?: 25 Things We Wished We’d Known Before Going to Law School /
Kelsey May, Samantha Roberts, and Elizabeth Shelton, Durham, NC: Carolina
● 1000 Days to the Bar, But the Practice of Law Begins Now / Dennis J. Tonsing,
Buffalo, NY: W.S. Hein & Co., 2010
● 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
● Deconstructing Legal Analysis: A 1L Primer / Peter T. Wendel, Austin: Wolters
Kluwer Law & Business; New York: Aspen Publishers, 2009
● Law School Labyrinth: Guide to Making the Most of Your Legal Education / Steven
R. Sedberry, New York: Kaplan Publishing, 2009
● 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, NY:
Foundation Press, 2009
● Bridging the Gap Between College and Law School: Strategies for Success / Ruta
K. Stropus & Charlotte D. Taylor, Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2009

● Just Trying To Be Human in This Place: Storytelling and Film in the First-Year Law
School Classroom, 39 Stetson Law Review 247 (2009)
● Acing your First Year of Law School: The Ten Steps to Success you Won’t Learn in
Class / Shana Connell Noyes & Henry S. Noyes, Buffalo, NY: William S. Hein & Co.,
2008
● 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, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2008
● Expert Learning for Law Students / Michael Hunter Schwartz, Durham, NC: Carolina
● The Law Student’s Pocket Mentor: From Surviving to Thriving / Ann L. Iijima, Austin:
Wolters Kluwer Law & Business/Aspen Publishers, 2007
● The Hidden Sources of Law School Stress: Avoiding the Mistakes that Create
Unhappy and Unprofessional Lawyers / Lawrence S. Krieger, Tallahassee, FL:
Krieger, 2005
● Reading Like a Lawyer: Time-Saving Strategies for Reading Law Like an Expert /
Ruth Ann McKinney, Durham, NC: 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 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
● How to Read a Legal Opinion: a Guide for New Law Students, Orin S Kerr, George
Washington University - Law School, posted to SSRN Also published in The
GREEN BAG, An Entertaining Journal of Law, Vol 11, No 1, p 51, Autumn 2007
● Wish I Would Have Known: Advice from Law Students on How They Would Do
Things Over, JD Law
● Students Blog: JD candidates at Vermont Law School share their thoughts and
experiences
● Law School Exams: A Guide to Better Grades / Alex Schimel, Durham, NC: Carolina
● Open Book: Succeeding on Exams from the First Day of Law School / Barry
Friedman, and John C.P. Goldberg, New York: Wolters Kluwer Law and Business,
2011

● Movie Therapy for Law Students (and Pre-Law, Paralegal, and related majors): Are
you Ready for Law School?: Prepare for law school, final exams, and the bar exam
by watching movies! / Sonia J. Buck, Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2009
● 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
● Writing Essay Exams to Succeed (Not Just to Survive) / John C. Dernbach, New
York: Aspen Publishers, 2007
● Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams / Richard Michael Fischl and
Jeremy Paul, Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1999
● Effective Lawyering: A Checklist Approach to Legal Writing and Oral Argument /
Austen L. Parrish and Dennis T. Yokoyama, Durham, N C : Carolina Academic
Press, 2012
● Legal Analysis: 100 Exercises for Mastery: Practice for Every Law Student /
Cassandra L. Hill and Katherine T. Vukadin, New Providence, NJ: Lexis Nexis, 2012
● Legal Reasoning, Writing and Other Lawyering Skills / Robin Wellford Slocum, New
Providence, NJ: Lexis Nexis, 2011
● Applying Law / Bradley J. Charles, Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2011
● Building Your Best Argument / Cecil C. Kuhne, III, Chicago, Ill: American Bar
Association, 2010
● Legal Analysis: The Fundamental Skill / David S. Romantz and Kathleen Elliott
Vinson, Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2009
● Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning / Frederick Schauer,
Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2009
● Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges / Antonin Scalia and Bryan
Garner, St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2008
● Mastering Legal Analysis and Communication / David T. Ritchie, Durham, N C:
Carolina Academic Press, 2008
● Reason in Law / Lief H. Carter, Thomas F. Burke Publisher New York: Pearson
Longman, 2007
● A Student’s Guide to Legal Analysis: Thinking Like a Lawyer / Patrick M. McFadden,
Gaithersburg [MD]: Aspen Law & Business, 2001
● Logic for Lawyers: A Guide to Clear Legal Thinking / by Ruggero J. Aldisert, South
Bend, Ind.: National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 1997
● American Courts: Process and Policy / Lawrence Baum, Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Co., 2013
● The Judge in Democracy / Aharon Barak, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
2008
● How Judges Think / Richard A. Posner, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University
Press, 2008

● Judicial Process in America / Robert A. Carp, et al., Washington, DC: CQ Press
2007
● Before the Law: An Introduction to the Legal Process / John J. Bonsignore, et al.,
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1998
● The Nature of the Judicial Process, by Benjamin N. Cardozo, New Haven, Yale
● An Introduction to the American Legal System / John M. Scheb and John M. Scheb,
II, Austin: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business; New York: Aspen Publishers, 2010
● Whose Monet? An Introduction to the American Legal System / John A. Humbach,
Austin: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business; New York: Aspen Publishers, 2007
● Law 101: Everything you Need to Know About the American Legal System / Jay M.
Feinman, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006
● American law and the American Legal System in a Nutshell / by Lloyd Bonfield, St.
Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2006
● American Law in the 20th Century / Lawrence M. Friedman, New Haven: Yale
● The Dance of Legislation/ Eric Redman, Seattle: University of Washington Press,
2001
● Legally Mom: Real Women’s Stories of Balancing Motherhood & Law Practice /
Anne Murphy Brown, Chicago: American Bar Association, 2012
● The Woman Advocate / Abbe F. Fletman and Evelyn R. Storich, Chicago, Ill:
American Bar Association, 2010
● Reaching the Bar: Stories from Women at all Stages of Their Law Careers / Edited
by Robin Sax, New York: Kaplan Publishing, 2009
● 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
● Staying at Home, Staying in the Law: A Guide to Remaining Active in the Legal
Profession While Pursuing Your Dreams / Julie Tower-Pierce, Chicago: American
Bar Association, 2008
● Pioneering Women Lawyers: From Kate Stoneman to the Present / Patricia Salkin,
Editor, Chicago, Ill: Commission on Women in the Profession, American Bar
Association, 2008
● Ending the Gauntlet: Removing Barriers to Women’s Success in the Law / Lauren
Stiller Rikleen, Eagan, Minn: Thomson/Legalworks, 2006
● Emotional Trials: The Moral Dilemmas of Women Criminal Defense Attorneys /
Cynthia Siemsen, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004
● Women-At-Law: Lessons Learned Along the Pathways to Success / Phyllis Horn
Epstein, Chicago, Ill: ABA Law Practice Management Section, 2004

● Empowerment and Leadership: Tried and True Methods for Women Lawyers /
American Bar Association, Commission on Women in the Profession, Chicago, Ill:
● 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
● 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, Commission on Women in the Profession
● Feminist Law Professors Blog
● Dear Sisters, Dear Daughters: Strategies for Success from Multicultural Women
Attorneys / [C Elisia, Frazier, Ernestine Forrest, editor] Publisher Chicago :
● 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)
● The Road to Law School and Beyond: Examining Challenges to Racial and
Ethnic Diversity in the Legal Profession / Gita Z. Wilder, Newton, PA: Law School
Admission Council, 2003
● Rebels in Law: Voices in History of Black Women Lawyers / edited by J. Clay Smith
Jr., Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000
● Study Skills for Success: Practical Advice for Minority Law Students / Massachusetts
Bar Association, Boston, MA: MCLE, 1997
● 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

Syracuse University College of Law
● Binder, David, Paul Bergman & Susan Price Lawyers as Counselors (1990)
● Cappalli, Richard B. The American Common Law Method (1997)
● Fischl, Richard & Jeremy Paul Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School
Exams (1999)
● Friedman, Barry & John C.P. Goldberg Open Book: Succeeding on Exams from the
First Day of Law School (2011)
● Gallacher, Ian Coming to Law School: How to Prepare Yourself for the Next Three
Years (2010)
● Gidi & Weihofen, Legal Writing Style (2018)
● Irons, Peter A People’s History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose
Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution (1999)
● Irons, Peter The Courage of Their Convictions: Sixteen Americans Who Fought
Their Way to the Supreme Court (1990)
● Levit, Nancy & Douglas O. Linder The Happy Lawyer: Making a Good Life in the
Law (2010)
● McKinney, Ruth Ann Reading Like a Lawyer: Time Saving Strategies for Reading
Law Like an Expert (2005)
● Sherwin, Richard K. When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line Between Law and
Popular Culture (2002)
● Toobin, Jeffrey The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (2008)
● Banks, Russell The Sweet Hereafter (1992)
● Farnsworth, Edward An Introduction to the Legal System of the United States (1983)
● Harrington, Mona Woman Lawyers: Rewriting the Rules (1994)
● Hegland, Kenney Introduction to the Study and Practice of Law (1983)
● Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
● Levi, Edward H. An Introduction to Legal Reasoning (1949)
● Lewis, Anthony Gideon’s Trumpet (1966)
● Lewis, Anthony Make No Law (1992)
● Miller, Robert H. Law School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Law School
Experience By Students, For Students (2000)
● Stropus & Taylor Bridging the Gap Between College and Law School (2001)

Temple University Beasley School of Law

● Yankee from Olympus by Catherine Drinker Bowen
● Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights by Genna
Rae McNeil & A. Leon Higginbotham
● The Ox Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark & Wallace Stegner
● Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
● Bridging the Gap Between College and Law School: Strategies for Success by Ruta
K. Stroupus & Charlotte D. Taylor
● Foundations of the Law, An Interdisciplinary and Jurisprudential Primer by Bailey
Kuklin & Jeffrey Stempel
● Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon
● The Checklist Manifesto or Better by Atul Gawande
● The Signal and the Noise by Nate silver
● Moneyball by Michael Lewis
● Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
● Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
● Miracle at Philadelphia by Catherine Drinker Bowen
● Billy by Albert French
● The Politics of Law by David Kairys (Professor of Law at Temple Law School)
● The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided By Politics and Religion by
Jonathan Haidt
● Information Feudalism by Peter Drahoe and John Braithwaite
● My Beloved World by Justice Sonya Sotomayo
● Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
● The Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
● My Beloved World by Justice Sonya Sotomayor
● Philadelphia Freedom by David Kairys (Professor at Temple Law School)
● No Ordinary Time by Doris Kerns Goodwin

Vanderbilt University Law School
● Ariens, Michael, Law School: Getting In, Getting Out, Getting On (Carolina
Academic Press, 2010)
● Blakely, Susan Smith, Best Friends at the Bar – What Women Need to Know about
a Career in the Law (Wolters Kluwer, 2009)
● Calleros, Charles R., Law School Exams: Preparing and Writing to Win (Aspen,
2007)
● Dernbach, John C., Writing Essay Exams to Succeed (Not Just To Survive) (Aspen,
2007)
● Fischl, Richard Michael and Paul, Jeremy, Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law
School Exams (Carolina Academic Press, 1999) “
● Gallacher, Ian, Coming to Law School – How to Prepare Yourself for the Next Three
Years (Carolina Academic Press, 2010)
● Iijima, Ann L., The Law Student’s Pocket Mentor: From Surviving to Thriving (Aspen,
2007)
● McKinney, Ruth Ann, Reading Like a Lawyer: Time-Saving Strategies for Reading
Law Like an Expert (Carolina Academic Press, 2005)
● McClurg, Andrew J., 1L of a Ride: A Well-Traveled Professor’s Roadmap to Success
in the First Year of Law School (Thomson West, 2009)
● Noyes, Shana Connell and Noyes, Henry S., Acing Your First Year of Law School:
The Ten Steps to Success You Won’t Learn in Class (Fred B. Rothman & Co., 1999)
● Nygren, Carolyn J., Starting Off Right in Law School (Carolina Academic Press,
2011)
● Parrish, Austen L. and Knolton, Cristina C., Hard-Nosed Advice from a Cranky Law
Professor—How to Succeed in Law School (Carolina Academic Press, 2010)
● Ramy, Herbert N., Succeeding in Law School, 2nd edition (Carolina Academic
Press, 2010)
● Scaros, Constantinos E., Learning About the Law, 3rd edition (Aspen, 2008)
● Schwartz, Michael Hunter, Expert Learning for Law Students, 2nd edition (Carolina
Academic Press, 2008)
● Shapo, Helene and Shapo, Marshall, Law School Without Fear: Strategies for
Success (Foundation Press, 1996)
● Stropus, Ruta K. and Taylor, Charlotte D., Bridging the Gap Between College and
Law School: Strategies for Success (Carolina Academic Press, 2001)
● Wendel, Peter T., Deconstructing Legal Analysis: A 1L Primer (Aspen, 2009

University of Virginia School of Law
● Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead” by Facebook Chief Operating Officer
Sheryl Sandberg
● Frederick Schauer’s book, Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal
Reasoning,
● Oliver Wendell Holmes’ “The Common Law” (1888)
● Molly Bishop Shadel’s “Finding Your Voice in Law School: Mastering Classroom
Cold Calls, Job Interviews, and Other Verbal Challenges”
● Becoming Justice Blackmun, by Linda Greenhouse
● Bryan Stevenson’s ‘Just Mercy’
● “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine,” by Michael Lewis
● Herbert Packer’s “The Limits of the Criminal Sanction,”
● Lawrence Friedman’s ‘A History of American Law’
● The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement’ by Steven Teles
● “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature “
● Jonathan Harr’s, Civil Action
● An article, Alex Beam’s “Greed on Trial,”
● “Law’s Empire” by Ronald Dworkin
● “Super Strategies for Puzzles and Games” by Saul X. Levmore and Elizabeth Early
Cook
● Stephen Pinker, “The Blank Slate”
● Peter Singer, “Animal Liberation”
● Barbara Ehrenreich, “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America”
● Bill McDonough and Michael Braungart, “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way we
Make Things”
● Matthew Scully, “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the
Call to Mercy”
● Bjorn Lomborg, “The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the
World”
● Patrick Michaels and Robert Balling, “The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about
Global Warming”
● Martha Fineman, “The Neutered Mother, the Sexual Family and Other Twentieth
Century Tragedies”
● Paul Weiler, “Governing the Workplace: The Future of Labor and Employment Law”
● James Atleson, “Values and Assumptions in American Labor Law”

Washington and Lee University School of Law
● Bridging the Gap Between College & Law School: Strategies for Success By Ruta
K. Stropus & Charlotte D. Taylor 2009
● 1L of a Ride: a well-traveled professor’s roadmap to success in the first year of law
school By Andrew McClurg 2009
● Expert Learning for Law Students, 2nd Ed. By Michael Hunter Schwartz 2008
● Law School Labyrinth, 2nd Ed. By Steven R. Sedberry, 2011
● Starting Off Right in Law School, 2nd Ed. By Carolyn J. Nygren 2011
● Cracking the Case Method:
● Legal Analysis for Law School Success By Paul Bergman, Patrick Goodman &
Thomas Holm 2012
● Coming to Law School: How to Prepare Yourself for the Next Three Years By Ian
Gallcher 2010
● What the L?: 25 Things We Wish We’d Known
● Before Going to Law School By Kelsey May, Samantha Roberts & Elizabeth Shelton
2010
● Demystifying the First Year of Law School: A Guide to the 1L Experience By Albert J.
Moore & David A. Binder 2010
● Hard-Nosed Advice from a Cranky Law Professor:
● How to Succeed in Law School By Austen L. Parrish & Cristina C. Knolton
● Succeeding in Law School, 2nd Ed. By Herbert N. Ramy 2010
● Law School Survival Manual: From LSAT to Bar Exam By Nancy B. Rapoport &
Jeffrey D. Van Niel 2010
● Law School Exams: Preparing and Writing to Win By Charles R. Calleros 2007
● Writing Essay Exams to Succeed in Law School Not Just to Survive, 3rd Ed. By
John C. Dernbach 2010
● Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams Richard Michael Fischl &
Jeremy Paul 1999
● Open Book: Succeeding on Exams from the First Day of Law School Barry
Friedman & John C.P. Goldberg 2011
● The Zen of Law School Success By Chad Noreuil 2011
● Law School Exams: A Guide to Better Grades By Alex Schimel 2012
● Cite-Checker: Your Guide to Using the Bluebook By Deborah E. Bouchoux 2011
● Legal Writing Citation in a Nutshell By Larry Teply 2008
● Aspen Handbook for Legal Writers: A Practical Reference By Deborah E. Bouchoux
2009
● Scholarly Writing: Ideas Examples and Execution By Jessica L. Clark & Kristen E.
Murray 2012

● The Lawyer’s Essential Guide to Writing By Marie Buckley 2011
● Typography for Lawyers By Matthew Butterick 2010
● Legal Method and Writing By Charles R. Calleros 2011
● Legal Writing and Analysis By Linda H. Edwards 2011
● Just Writing: Grammar, Punctuation, and Style for the Legal Writer By Anne Anquist
& Laurel Currie Oates 2009
● Pleasing the Court: Writing Ethical & Effective Briefs, 2nd Ed. By Judith D. Fischer
2011
● The Elements of Legal Style, 2nd ed. By Bryan A. Garner 2002
● Legal Writing in Plain English By Bryan A. Garner 2001
● Guide to Legal Writing Style, 5th ed. By Terri LeClercq & Karin Mika 2011
● Writing Shorter Legal Documents By Sandra J. Oster, Ph D, JD 2011
● The Legal Writing Survival Guide By Rachel H. Smith 2012
● Legal Writing in a Nutshell By Lynn Bahrych 2009
● Legal Writing: Ethical and Professional Considerations By Melissa H. Weresh 2009

Western New England School of Law
● Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver

● Bleak House by Charles Dickens
● Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
● The Just and the Unjust by James Gould Cozzens
● Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
● The Verdict by Barry Reed
● Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun’s Supreme Court Journey by Linda
Greenhouse
● Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt
● The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong
● The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-
mining history brought suit against the coal company--and won by Gerald M. Stern
● Cardozo by Andrew L. Kaufman
● The Courage of Their Convictions: Sixteen Americans Who Fought Their Way to the
Supreme Court by Peter Irons
● Damages by Barry Werth
● Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge by Gerald Gunther
● The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
● One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School by Scott
Turow
● Pinstripes & Pearls: The Women of the Harvard Law School Class of ‘64 Who
Forged an Old Girl Network and Paved the Way for Future Generations by Judith
Richards Hope
● Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America’s
Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger
● Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over
Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson
● Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary by Juan Williams

Widener University Delaware Law School

Law School By Andrew McClurg
● Law in America: A Short History By Lawrence Friedman
● To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
● The Anatomy of a Lawsuit By Peter Simon
● Deliberate Intent: A Lawyer Tells the True Story of Murder by the Book By Rod
Smolla
● Reading Like a Lawyer: Time-Saving Strategies for Reading Law Like an Expert By
Ruth McKinney
● Writing Essays Exams to Succeed in Law School By John Dernbach
Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company-and Won By Gerald
Stern
● Expert Learning for Law Students By Michael Schwartz
● What Every Law Student Really Needs to Know: An Introduction to the Study of Law
By Tracey George and Suzanna Sherry

University of Wyoming College of Law
● Burkhart, Ann M. and Stein, Robert A., Law School Success: A Guide to Studying
Law and Taking Law School Exams, 2nd ed. (nutshell), West Pub Co., 2008
● Burnham, William, Introduction to the Law and Legal System of the United States,
5th ed., West Group, 2006
● Calleros, Charles R., Law School Exams: Preparing and Writing to Win, Wolters
Kluwer, 2013
● Cooper, Charles, Later in Life Lawyers: Tips for the Non-Traditional Law Student,
2nd ed., The Fine Print Press, 2012
● Darrow-Kleinhaus, Suzanne, Mastering the Law School Exam: A Practical Blueprint
for Preparing and Taking Law School Exams, Thomson/West, 2006
● Delaney, John, How to Do Your Best on Law School Exams, 5th ed., John Delaney
Publications, 2012
● Dernbach, John C., Writing Essay Exams to Succeed in Law School (Not Just to
Survive), 4th ed., Wolters Kluwer, 2014
● Fischl, Richard Michael, Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams,
Carolina Academic Press, 1999
● George, Tracey E. and Sherry, Suzanna, What Every Law Student Really Needs to
Know: An Introduction to the Study of Law, 2nd ed., Wolters Kluwer, 2016
● Hegland, Kenney F, Introduction to the Study and Practice of Law, 6th ed. (Nutshell),
West Pub. Co., 2014
● Lewis, Mario T.D., The Law School Rules: 115 Survival Strategies to Make the
Challenges of Law School Seem Like “Small Stuff”, Harmony Books, 1999
● May, Kelsey, Samantha Roberts and Elizabeth Shelton, What the L?: 25 Things We
Wish We’d Known Before Going to Law School, Carolina Academic Press, 2010
● McClurg, Andrew J., 1L of a Ride: A Well-Traveled Professor’s Roadmap to Success
in the First Year of Law School, Thomson/West, 2009
● McClurg, Andrew J., The Law School Trip: The Insider’s Guide to Law School,
Footnote Press, 2001
● McKinney, Ruth Ann, Reading Like a Lawyer: Time-Saving Strategies for Reading
Law Like and Expert, 2nd ed., Carolina Academic Press, 2012
● Moliterno, James E., An Introduction to Law, Law Study, and the Lawyer’s Role, 2nd
ed., Carolina Academic Press, 2004
● Noreuil, Chad, LAW 101: What Law School’s Really Like, Carolina Academic Press,
2015
● Parrish, Austen L. and Knolton, Cristina C., Hard-Nosed Advice from a Cranky Law
Professor: How to Succeed in Law School, Carolina Academic Press, 2010

● Ramy, Herbert N., Succeeding in Law School, 2nd ed., Carolina Academic Press,
2010
● Rapoport, Nancy B. and Van Niel, Jeffrey D., Law School Survival Manual: From
LSAT to Bar Exam, Aspen Publishers, 2010
● Schwartz, Michael Hunter, Expert Learning for Law Students, Carolina Academic
Press, 2005
● Shapo, Helene S. and Marshall, Law School Without Fear: Strategies for Success,
2nd ed., Foundation Press, 2002
● Stropus, Ruta K. and Taylor, Charlotte D., Bridging the Gap Between College and
Law School: Strategies for Success, 3rd ed., Carolina Academic Press, 2014
● Whitebread, Charles D., The Eight Secrets of Top Exam Performance in Law
School: An Easy-to-Use, Step-by-Step Approach for Achieving Great Grades,
Thomson/West, 2008

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