The Law of Law School
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The Law of Law School

The Essential Guide for First-Year Law Students

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eBook - ePub

The Law of Law School

The Essential Guide for First-Year Law Students

About this book

Offers one hundred rules that every first year law student should live by

"Dear Law Student: Here's the truth. You belong here."

Law professor Andrew Ferguson and former student Jonathan Yusef Newton open with this statement of reassurance in The Law of Law School. As all former law students and current lawyers can attest, law school is disorienting, overwhelming, and difficult. Unlike other educational institutions, law school is not set up simply to teach a subject. Instead, the first year of law school is set up to teach a skill set and way of thinking, which you then apply to do the work of lawyering. What most first-year students don't realize is that law school has a code, an unwritten rulebook of decisions and traditions that must be understood in order to succeed.

The Law of Law School endeavors to distill this common wisdom into one hundred easily digestible rules. From self-care tips such as "Remove the Drama," to studying tricks like "Prepare for Class like an Appellate Argument," topics on exams, classroom expectations, outlining, case briefing, professors, and mental health are all broken down into the rules that form the hidden law of law school. If you don't have a network of lawyers in your family and are unsure of what to expect, Ferguson and Newton offer a forthright guide to navigating the expectations, challenges, and secrets to first-year success. Jonathan Newton was himself such a non-traditional student and now shares his story as a pathway to a meaningful and positive law school experience. This book is perfect for the soon-to-be law school student or the current 1L and speaks to the growing number of first-generation law students in America.

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Information

Publisher
NYU Press
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781479801626
eBook ISBN
9781479801602
Edition
0
Topic
Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction: Welcome to Law School
  6. Letter to a 1L on the First Day of Law School
  7. 1L Mind-Set
  8. Planning to Plan
  9. Books
  10. Studying
  11. Reading
  12. Briefing Cases
  13. In Class
  14. Habits of Success
  15. Confidence
  16. Outlines
  17. Application, Application, Application
  18. Legal Writing/Research
  19. Professors
  20. Extracurricular Activities
  21. Culture/Community
  22. Self-Care
  23. Midterms
  24. Reading Period
  25. Final Exams
  26. Second Semester and Beyond
  27. Authors’ Stories
  28. About the Authors