I mentioned before that I’m working on a way to make the site pay for itself, hopefully in a fashion that doesn’t detract from the reading experience. To that end I just fired up an Amazon aStore, which I am calling The Mac Law Students Bookstore. It is an affiliate store running on Amazon.com, meaning that I get a meager slice of every sale that goes through the store. I selected books that were helpful to me as I was preparing for and engaged in law school.
As you can see, the selection is a bit spare right now and it certainly doesn’t look polished yet. I went off memory and selected books I’d personally used, but I know there were some others I can’t remember at the moment, and I’d also like to add more categories and generally flesh it out. If you have suggestions for books that you found helpful, please feel free to comment.
Hopefully this bookstore will strike the right balance. As always, let me know what you think.
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A few that come to mind:
Learning Legal Reasoning by John Delaney
How to Do Your Best on Law School Exams by John Delaney
The Elements of Legal Style by Bryan A. Garner
I really used the Lexis “Understanding” Series a lot, especially Understanding Property and Understanding Criminal Law. The crim law one was written by the author of my casebook, and so I basically just read the hornbook and never read for class… Even one of my professors who was not a fan of using supplements said he didn’t mind when students used them as “an aid to master the material” (of course, we’re not supposed to use as a complete substitute!)
I recommend adding Planet Law School to your list.
I second Getting to Maybe, and add Acing Your First Year of Law School: The Ten Steps to Success You Won’t Learn in Class
Thanks for the suggestions. As always, much appreciated.