Summer Reading
Below is a list of optional and suggested resources that may be helpful to entering law students.
Books and Papers
- Expert Learning for Law Students, by Michael Hunter Schwartz
- Legal Analysis: The Fundamental Skill by David S. Romantz & Kathleen Elliot Vinson
- Painless American Government by Jeffrey Strausser
- The Little Red Writing Book by Brandon Royal
- How to Write Law Exams: IRAC Perfected (2d edition) by S.I. Strong & Brad Desnoyer
- The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- A Lawyer Writes: A Practical Guide to Legal Analysis by Coughlin, Malmud Rocklin & Patrick
- Switch: How to Change When Change is Hard by Chip and Dan Heath
- Grit by Angela Duckworth
- Mindset by Carol Dweck
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- Using Science to Build Better Learners: One School’s Successful Efforts to Raise its Bar Passage Rates in an Era of Decline, Louis N. Schulze, Jr. FIU Legal Studies Research Paper Series, No. 17-11, April 2017
Websites
- An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
- VARK: A Guide to Learning Styles
- A Stanford Researcher’s 15-minute Study Hack Lifts B+ Students Into the As
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
- Personality Type Indicator Test
- Project Implicit: Implicit Bias Tests
- Empathy Quotient Test
- US Civics Practice Test
- US Foreign Service Officer Practice Test
- Grammar – Khan Academy Lessons
- G Suite Learning Center
- Typing Test
TED Talks
- Law – Ted Talks
- How great leaders inspire action by Simon Sinek
- Why we all need to practice emotional first aid by Guy Winch
- The power of vulnerability by Brene Brown
- How to gain control of your free time by Amy Vanderkam
- Your body language shapes who you are by Amy Cuddy
- The puzzle of motivation by Dan Pink
- The power of believing that you can improve by Carol Dwek
