Open Book by Barry Friedman; John C. P. GoldbergCall Number: KF283 .F75 2016
ISBN: 9781454873563
Publication Date: 2016-04-18
Open Book: The Inside Track to Law School Success is a book that every JD and LLM law student needs to read, either before classes start or as they get going in their 1L year. Open Book introduces them to the basic structure of our legal system and to the distinctive features of legal reasoning. The book explains in clear and careful detail what exams are designed to test. It then devotes a single, clearly written chapter to each step of the process of answering exams. It also contains a wealth of material, both in the book and digitally, on preparing for exams. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Open Book comes with a free suite of 18 actual law school exams in Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Property and Torts, written and administered by law professors. These exams include not only questions, but: (1) annotations from the professors explaining what they were looking for; (2) model answers written by the professors themselves; and (3) actual student answers, with professor comments that explain why certain answers were stronger of weaker. As Open Book explains, there is no better way to prepare for exams than by practicing, and these unique materials will enable students to get the most out of their pre-exam practice.