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A Short & Happy Guide to Acing Your 1L Year

1st Edition
Adam M. Gershowitz
ISBN: 9798892098748
Subject: Law School Success
Format: Print - Softbound
Page Count: 281
Copyright: 2025 | Status: In Stock
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The book provides a concise overview of the legal doctrines you will learn in your 1L classes—Criminal Law, Torts, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Constitutional Law, Property, and Legal Research and Writing. It then explains how to succeed in each of those classes by showing you the way to prepare for class, how your professor will use the Socratic Method, what study guides to buy and not buy, how to outline your classes, and the strategies for successfully taking your exams. In this book, Professor Gershowitz (a ten-time teaching award winner) shows you the forest so that you will not get lost in the trees.


Imprint: West Academic Publishing
Series: Short & Happy Guides
Publication Date: 02/14/2025
Related Subject(s): Academic Success

Adam M. Gershowitz, William and Mary Law School

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