John Jay College Of Criminal Justice | The City University of New York

Pre-Law Focus

• 1L of a Ride: A Well-Traveled Professor's Roadmap to Success in the First Year of Law School, Andrew J. McClurg
• 10 Actual, Official LSAT Prep Tests, LSAC (Several different editions would be helpful to have.)
• ABA-LSAC Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools, Wendy Margolis (LSAC)
• Careers in Law, Gary A. Munneke
• Deconstructing Legal Analysis: A 1L Primer, Peter T. Wendel
• Getting to Maybe:  How to Excel on Law School Exams, Richard Michael Fischl and Jeremy Paul
• How to Get into Law School, Susan Estrich
• How to Get Into the Top Law Schools, Richard Montauk
• Ivy Briefs: True Tales of a Neurotic Law Student, Martha Kimes
• Law School Confidential, A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience: By Students, for Students, Robert H. Miller
• Nonlegal Careers for Lawyers, Gary A. Munneke
• One-L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School, Scott Turow
• Should You Really Be a Lawyer? The Guide to Smart Career Choices Before, During and After Law School, Deborah Schneider and Gary Belsky
• The Best Law Schools’ Admissions Secrets: The Essential Guide from Harvard's Former Admissions Dean, Joyce Curll
• The Idealist.org Handbook to Building a Better World: How to Turn Your Good Intentions into Actions that Make a Difference, Idealist.org and Stephanie Land
• The Ivey Guide to Law School Admission: Straight Advice on Essays, Resumes, Interviews and More, Anna Ivey
• The Law School Labyrinth: A Guide to Making the Most of Your Legal Education, Steven R. Sedberry
• The Lawyer Myth: A Defense of the American Legal Profession, Rennard Strickland and Frank T. Read
• The NAPLA/SAPLA Book of Law School Lists
• The Official Guide to Legal Specialties, NALP and Lisa Abrams
• The Official LSAT Superprep, LSAC
• What Every Law Student Really Needs to Know: An Introduction to the Study of the Law, Tracey George and Suzanna Sherry

Law School Focus

• Walt Bachman, Law v. Life: What Lawyers are Afraid to Say about the Legal Profession
• F. Lee Bailey, To Be a Trial Lawyer
• Susan J. Bell, Full Disclosure: Do You Really Want to Be a Lawyer?
• Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, The Nature of the Judicial Process
• Ronald Dworkin, Law's Empire
• Lois Forer, Money and Justice
• Hindi Greenberg, The Lawyer's Career Change Handbook: More Than 300 Things You Can do With A Law Degree
• Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action
• H.L.A. Hart, Punishment and Responsibility
• Martin Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law
• Peter Irons, The Courage of their Convictions
• Richard D. Kahlenberg, Broken Contract: A Memoir of Harvard Law School
• David Kairys, The Politics of Law: A Progressive Critique
• Michael J. Kelly, Lives of Lawyers: Journeys in the Organizations of Practice
• Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven
• Arthur Kinoy, Rights on Trial: The Odyssey of a People's Lawyer
• Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
• Anthony Kronman, The Lost Lawyer: Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession
• Edward H. Levi, Introduction to Legal Reasoning
• Anthony Lewis, Gideon's Trumpet
• Sol M. Linowitz, The Betrayed Profession: Lawyering at the End of the Twentieth Century
• Richard W. Moll, The Lure of the Law: Why People Become Lawyers, and What the Profession Does to Them
• Brian Porto, May it Please the Court
• Frank Schubert, Introduction to Law and the Legal System
• Enika Schulze and Susan Patterson, Introduction to the American Legal System
• Benjamin Sells, The Soul of the Law
• Gerry Spence, With Justice for None
• Gerald M. Stern, The Buffalo Creek Disaster
• Christopher D. Stone, Should Trees Have Standing? And Other Essays on Law, Morals and the Environment
• Cameron Stracher, Double Billing: A Young Lawyer's Tale of Greed, Sex, Lies, and the Pursuit of a Swivel Chair
• Jeffrey Toobin, Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the Election of 2000
• The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
• Ralph Warner and Toni Ihara, 29 Reasons Not to Go to Law School
• Alex Wellen, Barman: Ping-pong, Pathos, and Passing the Bar
• Bob Woodward, The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court