Academic Rules & Certifications

  1. Columbus School of Law Academic Rules (Rules)
  2. Columbus School of Law Rules of Professional Conduct (Honor Code)
  3. Academic Rules, Honor Code, and Bar Disclosure Certification Forms 
  4. Catholic University Code of Student Conduct

Orientation Required Reading

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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 1999)
  • Herbert N. Ramy’s Succeeding in Law School (2nd Edition Carolina Academic Press)
  • Charles R. Calleros’ Law School Exams: Preparing and Writing to Win (2nd Edition Wolters Kluwer)
  • 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)
  • Molly Bishop Shadel’s Finding Your Voice in Law School: Mastering Classroom Cold Calls, Job Interviews, and Other Verbal Challenges (Carolina Academic Press 2013)
  • Traci Cipriano’s The Thriving Lawyer: A Multidimensional Model of Well-Being for a Sustainable Legal Profession (Informa Law from Routledge 2023)
  • Kathryne M. Young’s How to be Sort of Happy in Law School (1st Edition Stanford University Press)

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 2001)
  • 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.