Law Book For Students In Chicago
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A casebook is a type of textbook used primarily by students in law schools.
Approximately 80 percent of our first-year law students live in Hyde Park, the neighborhood immediately surrounding the University of Chicago campus.
University of Chicago Average LSAT Score: 173 The average LSAT score of successful University of Chicago Law School applicants was 173 in a recent admissions cycle.
Law school is an academic challenge; most students agree the first year (“1L” year) is the most difficult. In part, this is because law school is taught using methods entirely different than the lecture method used in most college classrooms.
I used a backpack throughout law school and use one currently for work. Carrying textbooks and a computer, among other things, in a messenger bag is no joke on your shoulders/neck/back. For law school, I definitely recommend a backpack. In my experience, it's what most everyone else will have anyway.
Pens and pencils: I found pencil helpful for working out calculations because the maths can get a little messy. I found some really cool eco-friendly pencils on Amazon which are made from recycled newspaper! I have linked them here. Plastic tabs: Tabs will be your best friends during the LPC.
1. CPC by Takwani 2. CrPC by Kelkar 3. Constitutional Law by VN Shukla 4. Contract law by Mulla 5. Law of Tort by Ratanlal Dhirajlal 6. Family law by Poonam Pradham Saxena 7. Property law by Poonam Pradhan Saxena
Black's Law Dictionary is the most widely cited law book in the world and is the standard for the language law.
The most practical starting textbook is ``laying down the law'' (lexis) - gives an overview of the basics of law, how statutes and the common law work etc.
