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Marina's "Books to Read Before Law School"

As suggested by readers of "The Volokh Conspiracy" at:.

http://volokh.com/posts/1180719722.shtml
1. Law School Confidential (Revised Edition): A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience: By Students, for Students
by Robert H. Miller
  
2. One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
by Scott Turow
  
3. Bleak House (Modern Library Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
4. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: Inferno (Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri Reprint Series)
by Dante Alighieri
  
5. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
by Robert M. Pirsig
  
6. Introduction to the Study and Practice of Law in a Nutshell
by Kenney Hegland
  
7. An Introduction to Legal Reasoning (Phoenix Books)
by Edward H. Levi
  
8. Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams
by Richard Michael Fischl
  
9. Logic for Lawyers : A Guide to Clear Legal Thinking
by Ruggero J Aldisert
  
10.
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 Misleading Cases in the Common Law
by A. P. Herbert
  
11. The Just and the Unjust
by James Gould Cozzens
  
12.
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 Guard of Honor (Modern Library)
by James Gould Cozzens
  
13. Brush With the Law
by Jaime Marquart
  
14. What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question
by Po Bronson
  
15. THE CAINE MUTINY A NOVEL OF WORLD WAR II
by HERMAN WOUK
  
16. The Constitution of the United States of America  
17. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
by Richard Kluger
  
18. Legal Research in a Nutshell: By Morris L. Cohen, Kent C. Olson (Nutshell Series)
by Morris L. Cohen
  
19. A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our ConstitutionRevised Edition
by Peter Irons
  
20. Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, Seminar Papers, and Getting on Law Review, Second Edition (University Casebook Series) (University Casebook Series)
by Eugene Volokh
  
21. The Brothers Karamazov (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  
22. Take Control of Your Student Loan Debt
by Robin Leonard
  
23. How to Win Friends & Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
  
24. The Dale Carnegie Leadership Mastery Course: How To Challenge Yourself and Others To Greatness
by Dale Carnegie
  
25. Public Speaking for Success
by Dale Carnegie
  
26. The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking
by Dale Carnegie
  
27. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (Personal Development)
by Dale Carnegie
  
28.
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 The Economist
by The Economist Group
  
29. Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
  
30. The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law
by Mark Herrmann
  
31.
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 Washington's Crossing
by David Hackett Fischer
  
32. In the Shadow of the Law
by Kermit Roosevelt
  
33. Economic Analysis of Law
by Richard A. Posner
  
34. Anonymous Lawyer: A Novel
by Jeremy Blachman
  
35. The Law Review
by S. Scott Gaille
  
36. A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law (The University Center for Human Values Series)
by Antonin Scalia
  
37. Double Billing: A Young Lawyer's Tale Of Greed, Sex, Lies, And The Pursuit Of A Swivel Chair
by Cameron Stracher
  
38. The TEMPTING OF AMERICA
by Robert H. Bork
  
39. The Law
by Frederic Bastiat
  
40. Treatise on Law
by Thomas Aquinas
  
41. The King of Torts
by John Grisham
  
42.
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 English Constitutional History
by S. B. Chrimes
  
43.
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 Anatomy of a Merger
by James C. Freund
  
44. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
by William Strunk Jr.
  
45. The Paper Chase
by James Bridges
  
46. The Constitutional History of England
by Frederic William Maitland
  
47. The Supreme Court
by William H. Rehnquist
  
48. A Civil Action (Vintage Books)
by Jonathan Harr
  
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Created by Marina on Jun 01, 2007.