Suggested Reading for Incoming Law Students
Law School Study & Writing Skills
Bridging the Gap Between College and Law School: Strategies for Success*
Ruta K. Stropus & Charlotte D. Taylor
Carolina Academic Press, 2001
The Eight Secrets of Top Exam Performance in Law School: An Easy to Use, Step-by-Step Program for Achieving Great Grades!
Charles H. Whitebread
The Barbri Group, 1997
How to Read the Bible for All It’s Worth: a Guide to Understanding the Bible
Gordon Fee & Douglas Stuart
Zondervan, 2nd ed., 1993
The Elements of Legal Style
Bryan A. Garner
Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 2000
Plain English for Lawyers
Richard C. Wydick
Carolina Academic Press, 4th ed., 1998
The Elements of Style
Will Strunk & E. B. White
Macmillan Publishing Co., 4th ed., 1999
The New Fowler's Modern English Usage
Henry Watson Fowler
R. W. Burchfield, Editor
Oxford Univ. Press, 3rd rev. ed., 2000
One-L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
Scott Turrow
Warner Books, 1997
History & Philosophy of Law
Defending the Declaration: How the Bible and Christianity Influenced the Writing of the Declaration of Independence
Gary T. Amos, ed.
Providence Foundation, 1994
The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison & John Jay
Garry Wills, ed.
Bantam, 1981
Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Little Brown & Co., 1986
Debate of the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles & Letters During the Struggle Over Ratification, Part Two: January to August 1788
Bernard Bailyn, Editor
Library of America, 1993
No Liberty for License: The Forgotten Logic of the First Amendment
David Lowenthal
Spence Publishing Co., 1998
50 Questions on the Natural Law: What It Is and Why We Need It
Charles E. Rice
Ignatius Press, rev. ed., 1999
The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke
Catherine D. Bowen
Little Brown & Co., Reissue edition, 1990
The Tradition of Natural Law: A Philosopher's Reflection
Yves Rene Marie Simon
Vukan Kuic, ed.
Fordham Univ. Press, 1992
Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law & Education
Phillip E. Johnson
Intervarsity Press, 1998
The Rise of Modern Judicial Review: From Judicial Interpretation to Judge-Made Law
Christopher Wolfe
Basic Books, rev. ed., 1994
Profession of Law, Ethics, Crime & Justice
A Nation Under Lawyers: How the Crisis in the Legal Profession Is Transforming American Society
Mary Ann Glendon
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994
Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault of Truth in American Law
Daniel Farber & Susanna Sherry
Oxford Univ. Press, 1997
The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America
Philip K. Howard
Warner Books, 1996
Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality
Robert P. George
Oxford Univ. Press, 1995
The Interaction of Law and Religion
Harold J. Berman
Abingdon Press, 1974
Crime and Its Victims: What We Can Do
Daniel W. Van Ness
Intervarsity Press, 1986
Justice that Restores
Charles W. Colson
Tyndale House Publishers, 2001
Restoring Justice
Dan Van Ness and Karen Heetderks Strong
Anderson Publishing Co., 2nd ed., 2001
The Peacemaker: A Biblical Guide to Resolving Personal Conflict
Ken C. Sande
Baker Books, 2nd Ed., 2000
In Search of Atticus Finch: A Motivational Book for Lawyers
Mike Papantonio
D. Fitch, ed.
Seville Publishing, 2nd ed., 1998
Christian Principles
Burden of Thuth
Charles W. Colson, with Anne Morse
Tyndale House Publishers, 1998
The Call
Os Guiness
Word Publishing, 1998
Mere Christianity
C. S. Lewis
Harper. 1st Harper ed., 2001 (1952)
The Other Six Days: Vocations, Work and Ministry in Biblical Perspective
R. Paul Stevens
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2000
Out of the Salt Shaker: Evangelism as a Way of Life
Rebecca Manley Pippert
Intervarsity Press, 1999
Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture
Gene Edward Veith
Crossway Books, 1994
The Sensate Culture
Harold O. Brown
Word Publishing, 1996
Law in Literature
The Law as Literature
Ephraim London, ed.
Simon & Schuster, 1965
The Law in Literature
Ephraim London, ed.
Simon & Schuster, 1970
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
(any translation)
Nineteen Eighty-four
George Orwell
Signet Classic, reissue ed., 1990
To Kill A Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Warner Books, 1988 (1960)
Witness
Whittaker Chambers, William F. Buckley & Robert D. Novak
Regnery Publishing, 50th Anniv. ed., 2001
Films
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains
Columbia Tristar, 1939
The Oxbow Incident
Anthony Quinn, Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Harry Morgan
Twentieth Century Fox, 1942
Young Mr. Lincoln
Henry Fonda, Lamar Trotti
Twentieth Century Fox, 1939
Anatomy of a Murder
James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazarra, Eve Arden, George C. Scott
Columbia Tristar, 1959
Adam's Rib
Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1949
Judgment at Nuremburg
Spencer Tracy, Maximillian Schnell
United Artists, 1961
Witness for the Prosecution
Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
MGM-Pathe Communications, 1957
Breaker Morant
Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown
South Australian Film Corp., 1979
Twelve Angry Men
Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb
United Artists, 1957
A Civil Action
John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Stephen Fry, James Gandolfini, Dan Hedaya, Zeljko Ivanek, John Lithgow
Touchstone Pictures, 1999
