Get a Running Start: Your Comprehensive Guide to the First Year Curriculum (Academic and Career Success Series) - Softcover

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Gray, David; Gifford, Donald; Graber, Mark; Richman, William; Super, David; Alstine, Michael

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9781634596831: Get a Running Start: Your Comprehensive Guide to the First Year Curriculum (Academic and Career Success Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1634596838 ISBN 13: 9781634596831
Publisher: West Academic Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

The first of its kind, this book offers a global overview of the first-year curriculum in a single volume. In short, accessible lessons, Get a Running Start covers all the major concepts taught in each of the courses most commonly offered in the first year of law school: criminal law, torts, civil procedure, constitutional law, property, and contracts. (See also a companion volume, Stay Ahead of the Pack: Your Comprehensive Guide to the Upper Level Curriculum, which covers the most common 2L and 3L courses: administrative law, business associations, criminal procedure, evidence, personal income tax, and professional responsibility.)

Each of the courses comprising this book is written by a specialist in the field who is a decorated teacher with years of experience in the classroom. In this volume, they have distilled that experience and expertise to produce the tool they wish they had when they first were thinking about and then actually began law school: a clear, concise introduction to the entire first-year curriculum.

Get a Running Start is a valuable tool for first-year law students, g(more...)

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Publisher
West Academic Publishing
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1634596838
ISBN 13 
9781634596831
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
737
Rating
  • 4.43 out of 5 stars
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