Open Book: The Inside Track to Law School Success - Softcover

Friedman, Barry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1454873566 ISBN 13: 9781454873563

Publisher: Aspen Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Open Book: The Inside Track to Law School Success, 2E is a book that every JD and LLM law student needs to read, either before classes start or as they get going in their 1L year. Now in an expanded second edition, the book explains in a clear and easygoing, conversational manner what law professors expect from their students both in classes and exams. The authors, award-winning teachers with a wealth of classroom experience, give students an inside look at law school by explaining how, despite appearances to the contrary, classes connect to exams and exams connect to the practice of law.

Open Book introduces them to the basic structure of our legal system and to the distinctive features of legal reasoning. To prepare students for exams, the book explains in clear and careful detail what exams are designed to test. It then devotes a single, clearly written chapter to each step of the process of answering exams. It also contains a wealth of material, both in the book and digitally, on preparing for exams.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Open Book comes with a free suite of 18 actual law school exams in Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Property and Torts, written and administered by law professors. These exams include not only questions, but: (1) annotations from the professors explaining what they were looking for; (2) model answers written by the professors themselves; and (3) actual student answers, with professor comments that explain why certain answers were stronger of weaker. As Open Book explains, there is no better way to prepare for exams than by practicing, and these unique materials will enable students to get the most out of their pre-exam practice.

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Review

This is a book that will help law students get law school, not just law school exams. It really captures what it means to think like a lawyer.

--Amy Coney Barrett, Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School

If future and current law students pick only one book to read to support their law school success, it should definitely be Open Book!

--Leah A. Plunkett, Associate Professor of Legal Skills & Director of Academic Success, University of New Hampshire School of Law

This is the one single book I recommend I urge incoming LLM students to read before classes start and reread during the semester and close to exams. It should be mandatory reading for all incoming LLM students.

--Lourdes Olvera-Marshall, Associate Director, Graduate Affairs, NYU School of Law

Edition details

• Publisher: Aspen Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1454873566
• ISBN 13: 9781454873563
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 278