Letters to a Law Student: A guide to studying law at university

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Many studies, articles, and polls have proven that law school students are at high risk for depression and other mental issues. Your classmates will be watching you and evaluating not only your intelligence, but your honesty and professionalism. In response, lawyers say, “Hard cases make bad law,” meaning that cases decided on the basis of emotion are not reliable as sources of future results. The book takes the form of a series of letters from a law teacher to an A Level student who goes on to become an undergraduate Law student.

Overall, Letters to a Law Student provides a creative, candid and enlightening guide to studying law at university.I would strongly recommend this book to current students, as it raises issues which are not dealt with in other texts and has many sterling qualities.

The fact that a previous generation of law-makers may have taken a particular position on what sort of society we should live in does not mean that future generations cannot take a different position, thereby bringing about a change in the law. 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.Your job is to keep your eye on the ball: you are in law school to learn to teach yourself the skills that you will need for the rest of your professional career. The requirement that judges not give effect to their own personal views as to what sort of society we should live in, but rather the emerging consensus among law-makers on this issue is a salutary one – however frustrating a particular judge (for example, one who believes strongly in the acceptability of euthanasia) might find it. Only rarely will the court be persuaded by specific facts that the applicable rule is leading to an inappropriate result, and as lawyers we tend to disparage these moments. Assimilated together the letters form a collection of essential advice, guidance and words of wisdom given throughout the significant period from first thinking about becoming a law student, through to embarking on university applications, obtaining a good law degree and subsequently, thinking about becoming a lawyer. Fearful of the stress, challenges, and unknown of where you want to go, what you want to study, and anxious about the new experience?

Suppose that you and I and a whole bunch of other people decide that we are going to go on holiday together. It develops a thick-skinned debating style, which makes lawyers both successful and disparaged in their professional lives. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. There was a lot to digest so it was quite a slow and considered read, but it was full of helpful insight.Of course, the rules are never applied “in the same way” for everyone; in particular, people with better lawyers tend to get better results. Let me now give you an example to make clearer the idea I am advancing here of seeing law as an ongoing conversation that is aimed at determining what sort of society we should live in. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who has a passionate or minor interest in law simply because I think that this book tells you the truth which could steer you away or pull you in deeper and it prepares you for law school, college, work, and many life aspects in general.