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Recommended Reading
If you have the time, you might consider reading one of the following books to help you prepare for law school.
For practical advice:
- Richard Fischl and Jeremy Paul's Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams (Carolina Academic Press, 2nd ed., 2023)
- Herbert N. Ramy’s Succeeding in Law School (Carolina Academic Press, 3rd ed., 2020)
- Charles R. Calleros’ Law School and Exams: Preparing and Writing to Win (Wolters Kluwer, 3rd ed., 2021)
- Robert H. Miller’s Law School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience: By Students, for Students (3rd Edition St. Martin’s Press, 2004)
- Molly Bishop Shadel’s Finding Your Voice in Law School: Mastering Classroom Cold Calls, Job Interviews, and Other Verbal Challenges (Carolina Academic Press, 2nd ed., 2025)
- Traci Cipriano’s The Thriving Lawyer: A Multidimensional Model of Well-Being for a Sustainable Legal Profession (Informa Law from Routledge, 2024)
- Kathryne M. Young’s How to be Sort of Happy in Law School (Stanford University Press, 2018)
For inspiration:
- Anthony Lewis’s Gideon’s Trumpet: How One Man, a Poor Prisoner, Took His Case to the Supreme Court-and Changed the Law of the United States (Random House, 1964)
- Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld, and Jim Dwyer’s Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right (Penguin Books, 2003)
- CUA Law Alumnus Brian Stolarz’s Grace and Justice on Death Row: The Race against Time and Texas to Free an Innocent Man (Skyhorse Publishing, 2016)
- Michael J. Sandel’s Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? (D&M Publishers, Inc., 2009) Additionally, for fun, you also might want to take a look at Scott Turow's memoir One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School.
Additionally, for fun, you also might want to take a look at Scott Turow's memoir One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School.