Academic Rules & Certifications
- Columbus School of Law Academic Rules (Rules)
- Columbus School of Law Rules of Professional Conduct (Honor Code)
- Academic Rules, Honor Code, and Bar Disclosure Certification Forms
- Catholic University Code of Student Conduct
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.