Teach your students the core principles of studying law with this helpful companion.

Letters to a Law Student, 5th edition, introduces law for aspiring law students in a personable read, with practical advice and insights on transitioning from school and studying law to build confidence and embed core study and legal skills for career success.

Learn the skills it takes to succeed as a law graduate with this essential text. Letters to a Law Student, 5th edition, Global Edition by Nicholas J McBride, provides a thorough introductory guide to higher education and learning context for law studies. Voted in the top 6 books that future law students should read, it is an approachable and easy-to-follow guidebook. The text flows as a series of letters between a lecturer and aspiring student, divided into chronological parts from thinking about a law degree to preparing to study law, studying law, writing like a lawyer, and thinking about the future.

McBride adds practical advice throughout the book, supporting your transition from school to studying law as a first-year undergraduate. The 5th edition helps to build confidence and encourages the essential study and legal skills you will need to succeed. Packed with new and revised material, Letters to a law student remains a current and helpful reference.

This text is a great companion for general law modules on skills, legal system, jurisprudence and law, government, and society to keep you thinking critically, analysing and understanding the law.

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Nicholas J. McBride is a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was formerly a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is (with Roderick Bagshaw) the author of Tort Law, now in its sixth edition.

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Explains how your students can make a success of a law degree and a career in law.

Letters to a Law Student by Nick McBride introduces law for aspiring law students in a personable read, with practical advice and insights on transitioning from school and studying law to build confidence and embed effective study and legal skills for career success.

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Preface

About the author

Publisher acknowledgments PART ONE. THINKING ABOUT STUDYING LAW

• Letter 1 What is law?
• Letter 2 Five reasons for studying law
• Letter 3 Defending the law
• Letter 4 Why not do something else?

• Letter 5 Is law for me? PART TWO. PREPARING TO STUDY LAW

• Letter 6 Two hard truths
• Letter 7 On free speech
• Letter 8 Means and ends
• Letter 9 Acts and omissions
• Letter 10 The many and the few
• Letter 11 The harm principle
• Letter 12 Justice and rights
• Letter 13 How to argue

• Letter 14 On doing the LNAT PART THREE. STUDYING LAW

• Letter 15 General tips
• Letter 16 Avoiding problems
• Letter 17 Making the most of your time
• Letter 18 Using a textbook
• Letter 19 Reading cases
• Letter 20 A brief history of law reporting
• Letter 21 Making sense of statutes
• Letter 22 Getting through articles

• Letter 23 Making the most out of where you are PART FOUR. WRITING LIKE A LAWYER

• Letter 24 How to write an essay
• Letter 25 How to write a problem answer
• Letter 26 Writing a dissertation

• Letter 27 Revising for and doing exams PART FIVE. AFTER STUDYING LAW

• Letter 28 Moving on
  APPENDICES

  Appendix A

  A mini-dictionary of law

  Appendix B

  End notes

  Index