The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. But as a subject for study, I think it’s tough to find another that is as fascinating, as significant, and as transformative as law is. If you cannot live by the rules now, when you are being scrutinized at every turn, what will prevent similar conduct when no one is watching? Anyway, failure is a necessary part of the learning process for lawyers; losing is a regular part of professional life.

It is well written, readable and wholly absorbing…My only regret is that this book of letters was not available to me when I was a student. Everyone cannot be at the top of the class, but you can take advantage of the opportunities available to improve your chances in the job market. and change the facts in some way, you are asking the teacher to predict what a decision maker might think about these new facts.The text flows as a series of letters between a lecturer and aspiring student, divided into chronological parts from thinking about a law degree to preparing to study law, studying law, writing like a lawyer, and thinking about the future. You have to take the occasional break and watch out for yourself; or else, you end up in a really bad situation where your work will inevitably decrease in excellence and everything will be so much harder on you.

It is an honorable and highly rewarding exercise; I can assure you that it is never fully mastered, and therefore, never boring. The book takes the form of a series of letters from a law teacher to an A Level student who goes on to become an undergraduate Law student. We may walk you back through the relevant rule of law and ask you if each of its requirements, in turn, has been satisfied. Eventually, this will give you insight into the thinking of your clients, your adversaries, the judge and jury. Providing readers with a brief history of the evolution of the Law, from the Code of Hammurabi to Justinian’s Code - attempting to codify all Law in the Roman empire - the book is extremely useful in detailing the background to the laws that govern us today.It is important to respect your colleagues for another reason: you will learn an enormous amount from them. Your job is finding a balance: learn the meaning of each new word or term and use it with precision,[35] but do not memorize endless phrases and parrot them back. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. One of the hardest things to accept about law school is that everyone has been a good student, or a success of some kind, before arriving.

This is why I encourage you to study with friends: in a group, a discussion of the applicable law and its impact on new situations is a more active (and interesting) learning experience. If you violate this code, you may be dismissed from school, given a failing grade, or placed on probation. Let me now give you an example to make clearer the idea I am advancing here of seeing law as an ongoing conversation that is aimed at determining what sort of society we should live in.You are learning to be a legal thinker, one who, in the long span of a career, will be largely self-taught. Even better, Mcbride organized all of this information and specific question into different areas of law. She has taught Contracts, Commercial Transactions, Sales, Secured Transactions, Banking Law, Negotiation, and Lawyering Skills. This article aims to try and help by giving a concise guide to the books I have found most useful, intelligible and entertaining.