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Subjects:  1. Handbooks, manuals, etc    2. Law    3. Law students    4. Legal Education    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Study and teaching    7. United States   

Subjects:  1. Law    2. Legal Education    3. Legal Profession    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Legal System    6. Social Science / Sociology / General   

Subjects:  1. Law    2. Legal Education    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession    4. Study & Teaching    5. English legal system    6. Law / Study & Teaching    7. Law | Comparative Law and National Legal Systems   

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Great Britain    3. Law    4. Law and legislation    5. Legal Education    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Legal status, laws, etc    8. Legal status, laws, etc.    9. Public welfare    10. Social Science    11. Social Work    12. Social workers    13. Sociology    14. Women's Studies - General    15. English law: citizenship & nationality law    16. English law: social security & welfare law    17. Law / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    18. Law | Health & Medical Law    19. Law-Legal Education    20. Social Science / Social Work    21. Social Science-Social Work   

Reviews (3)

Advice from a NILE veteran...and sympathetic young attorney
I have read this book and know the authors. I know them because I attended the NILE program for several years before attending law school.Whether you buy this book and use it like a bible in law school or only buy it as a perusal of "what's to come" in law school, you should unquestionably get your hands on a NILE application and invest the money to go sometime before you begin law school. The authors of this book are dedicated to educating America's aspiring attorneys, and those who are "just looking" at the profession.As a successful law school graduate and second year associate at a great firm I can tell anyone considering law school that NILE is the single best preparatory experience you can find before actually going to law school. By the way, outlines are important for studying for exams.So if you're tempted to write off the book because of its concentration on course outlines...you'll be grateful for the guide when you're sitting in your apartment two weeks before exams and everyone is talking about their "study outlines."At that point, feeling lost and alone, open this book and thank the authors for a road map to your first outline. And remember, no book can make law school easy...if it could, we attorneys wouldn't grin in knowing sympathy when you, the law student, tell us how tough it is, and how confused you felt during those first few months. You don't need a book, you need a simple roadmap...and this is a roadmap.What you fill in along the way will be your "law school experience."

This is not "The Ultimate Guide to Excelling in Law School."
Did anyone proof this book? It's full of grammar, punctuation and typing errors. "This deference to prior decisions is the principal precedental effect, also called state decisis." Don't forget to ask your law professors about state decisis on your first day of class. "They not being provided for their accuracy." Thanks for the disclaimer, Grog. Apparently a cave man or woman edited this book. The examples go on and on. The fact that no one cares enough to correct these errors is sad; it makes itdifficult to take the authors seriously. This, however, would all be a minor inconvenience if not for the fact that the information provided in Law School Companion is marginal at best. You can't help but feel as you turn the pages that The Princeton Review threw this together to make some extra money. Almost 40% of the book is devoted to sample course outlines. Sure, they call itAppendix I, but it's still part of the book. If you're looking for a book on law school preparation, this is not the one for you. The authors recommend that you read "one or two" books over the summer. That's great advice if you want to struggle to receive poor grades during your first year. The only real prep advice they give is to attend the NILE Law School Prep Program. In fact, the only phone number they give you is that of NILE. Turns out, two of the authors are NILE directors and the other is a NILE instructor! I expected more from The Princeton Review. If you're looking for a book on prep, try Planet Law School. I bought eight books on prep and found PLS gave me the most for my money. Many of the publications that the book recommends are difficult to obtain, but hunt is worth it.

experience over book knowledge
Please know that there are countless books which try to tell entering law school students about what to expect, how to deal with adversity, and reveal various strategies for success in law school. While this book isvery effective about revealing the basic facts of law school, every futurelaw school student must realize that there is no ONE set way to prepare forlaw school.If there were, there would be one book by one author and itwould be the final word.But law school is not that way, life is not thatway.Every person will have a unique experience in law school.If you arelooking for a book to calm your nerves and make you feel more secure aboutwhat the next three years have in store for you, this book is right foryou. But keep in mind that your experience will ultimately prevail overknowledge you gain from a book.I am entering my third year in law school,and the advice I recieved from other law students helped me more than any"help-book" did. My advice is for a prospective student to buya variety of books to see different takes on law school.Include thisbook, then find a book by a law school graduate and get a book by a currentlaw student. By seeing law school through different perspectives, you willbe better prepared to have YOUR EXPERIENCE, and that one is the mostimportant. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. College Life    2. General    3. Graduate School Guides - Law    4. Law    5. Law (General)    6. Legal Education    7. Reference    8. Study and teaching    9. United States    10. Vocational guidance    11. Reference / General   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. Education    4. General    5. Law    6. Legal Education    7. Legal Profession    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. Legal assistants    10. Study and teaching    11. United States    12. Business & Economics / General    13. Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law    14. USA   

Subjects:  1. Contracts    2. Criminal Law - General    3. Law    4. Legal Education    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Study & Teaching    7. Criminal law   

Subjects:  1. Business Law    2. General    3. Law    4. Law (General)    5. Legal Education    6. Legal System    7. Politics - Current Events    8. Popular works    9. Study and teaching    10. United States    11. Business & Economics / Business Law   

Reviews (3)

Over and Under as well as "Leaving the Bench"
This was an approach studying indivdual justices rather than casesin describing the Supreme Court.Would highly recommend social science instructors use the material when discussing the workings of the Court.Would like to have seen more information on the problems and contributions of the many law clerks who are essential to the operation of the Court.

Unique and fascinating
This book gives the details on the death and/or retirement of every Supreme Court justice, and gathers information not easily found any place else.The book is meticulously researched, and presents, after the examination of the problems sometimes encountered with Supreme Court justices who would not resign, a simple and I think probably effective solution which would not require a Constituional amendment. The book also includes an appendix which lists the burial site of each Justice.Ten are buried in Arlington Cemetery and none are buried west of Boulder, Colorado.Anyone interested in Supreme Court history will find this book hard to lay down.I did.

Curiously addictive scholarship
I am a Supreme Court junkie but I confess this is one of the most curious books about the court that I have ever read. If you thought that there was no aspect of the lives of US Supreme Court justices too obscure for CQ'sThe Supreme Court Compendium to answer, think again.Read more

Subjects:  1. Courts - Supreme Court    2. Law    3. Legal Education    4. Legal Profession    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Biography: general    7. Constitution: government & the state    8. Courts & procedure    9. USA   

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fascinating study of modern governance
Valverde's book represents a refreshingly novel combination of theoretical sophistication with historical sensibility and empirical care.Disregarding conventional disciplinary boundaries that separate social theory, legal theory, political theory, and criminology, Valverde provides a searching and totally original analysis of governance at work.In her hands, the praxis and theory of governance yield a surprisingly complex variety of techniques that challenge the traditional distinction between liberal and regulatory modes of governance.The ubiquitous, yet woefully understudied, technique of licensing, for instance, emerges as an attempt to integrate exercises of the state's age-old "police powers" into a liberal regime of governance that, in effect, offers up the dream of self-government through self-police. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Ethics & Moral Philosophy    2. Jurisprudence    3. Knowledge, Sociology of    4. Law    5. Legal Education    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Psychological aspects    8. Psychology    9. Social aspects    10. Jurisprudence & philosophy of law    11. Law / Jurisprudence    12. Political Science and International Relations    13. Sociology   

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Law    3. Legal Education    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Jurisprudence & General Issues    6. Law / Study & Teaching    7. Law | Comparative Law and National Legal Systems   

Subjects:  1. Administration - General    2. Education    3. Education / Teaching    4. Educational law and legislatio    5. Educational law and legislation    6. Leadership    7. Legal Education    8. Reference    9. School management and organiza    10. School management and organization    11. United States    12. Education / General    13. Educational administration    14. Industrial or vocational training    15. Legal skills & practice   

Subjects:  1. Law    2. Legal Education    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession   

Subjects:  1. Constitutional    2. General    3. Law    4. Legal Education    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights    7. Law / General   

Subjects:  1. General    2. Law    3. Legal Education    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Remedies & Damages    6. Courts & procedure   

Subjects:  1. Educational    2. Law    3. Legal Education    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Law / Educational Law & Legislation    6. Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law    7. Organization & management of education    8. USA   

Subjects:  1. Case method    2. Law    3. Legal Education    4. Methodology    5. Philosophy   

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Borrow This Book At the Library!
I went to the library and went through pretty much the whole book.There really isn't anything unique this book has to offer, as most of its tips are rather practical and known.Read more

Subjects:  1. Admission    2. College applications    3. General    4. Graduate School Guides - Law    5. Law    6. Law (General)    7. Law schools    8. Legal Education    9. Professional Education    10. Reference    11. Study and teaching    12. United States    13. Business & Economics / Careers    14. Higher & further education   

Subjects:  1. Education / Teaching    2. Higher    3. Law    4. Legal Education    5. Education / Higher    6. Legal skills & practice