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**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 do
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- Author
- Andrew Guthrie Ferguson; Jonathan Yusef Newton
- Publisher
- New York University Press; NYU Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781479801619
- Category
- law
- Subjects
- Law, Education, History
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (71 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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