In 2000, she left teaching to pursue a career as a communication consultant and was named a professor emerita. Suppose further that your clients, the Stanleys, have assets that, at fair market value, exceed their debts. Cutthroat competition is not good for anyone, and it leads to behavior that degrades the profession and makes practice a nightmare.

This active application of the learned material is not unique to law; it appears in some form in all graduate education. Although a fantastic book covering all the major myths involving the law, the second book is not as much as a page turner as the first and may be one to pick up every-so-often. As the discipline of Law is notorious for requiring a large volume and breadth of reading, it can be daunting knowing where to start before you embark on your legal journey.We want you to distill the relevant legal rule from the reading and be prepared to apply it to new facts. Written as letters to a student, it makes the book an amiable and conversational book providing future law students and current law students with the first bit of help and advice they will need to tackle their Law degree and reach their ambitions. To understand what is so great about studying law, you first need to understand a bit about what law is. You learn from your classmates by listening to them in class, by observing their mistakes, by arguing points with them.

So, although you might by background or sympathy want to discuss why the Stanleys are upset, or how they got into this situation, or whether they are being reasonable under the circumstances when refusing to sell assets, your professors may discourage (and even disparage) this kind of discussion. Some students will begin parroting the language quite early in the process, and that may intimidate you initially. We may debate at length what the elements of the rule are, or whether the elements of the rule have been met.This view – expressed by the Latin tag salus populi suprema lex est (‘the safety of the people is the supreme law’) – actually finds some support at the end of Lord Camden’s . You leave university able to think more clearly, argue more effectively, reason more carefully and with greater insight than you could ever do when you were at school. It makes being a lawyer seem hard and magical, and this helps to inflate the value of the professional knowledge, both inside and outside the system.

Each class develops its own sense of competition; some become very supportive communities and others are schools of sharks. 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.

Some, surely, will experience failure in this environment, but everyone will achieve more than if the bar is set too low. The most famous of the three books and probably deservedly so, Letters to a Law Student is a quintessential read for all potential Law students. I may be fairly prepared for my life, yet, I still read Letters to a Law Student because I knew I needed to read to help me conquer the detrimental challenges when going to law school; luckily, this book lived up to my expectations! This critical analysis process will remain with you long after your grasp of the Rule Against Perpetuities has faded. McBride is a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge; he was formerly a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.