Get a Running Start: Your Comprehensive Guide to the First Year Curriculum

by David Gray, Donald Gifford, Mark Graber

The first of its kind, this book offers a global overview of the first-year curriculum in a single volume. In short, available lessons, Get a Running Start covers all the major concepts taught in each of the courses most commonly offered in the first year of law criminal law, torts, civil procedure, constitutional law, property, and contracts.

Each of the courses comprising this book is written by a specialist in the field who is a decorated teacher with years of experience in the classroom. In this volume, they have distilled that experience and expertise to produce the tool they wish they had when they first were thinking about and then actually began law a clear, concise introduction to the entire first-year curriculum.

Get a Running Start is a valuable tool for first-year law students, giving them a running start on their law school careers and putting them in the best position to enter the profession. By reading through all the lessons for a course, first-year students will get a complete overview of each course early in the semester. As the semester goes forward, students can accelerate their learning and comprehension by reviewing individual lessons when preparing for class. As the semester comes to a close, the lessons in this book provide an invaluable framework for outlining and exam preparation.

Get a Running Start is also the ideal introduction for undergraduate students. For formal pre-law or Introduction to American Law courses, this book will provide students with a comprehensive overview broken into concise, digestible chunks that are ideal for further development in lecture or discussion sections. Outside the classroom, Get a Running Start offers a stimulating introduction to fundamental legal concepts that will engage those who might be thinking about going to law school and citizens who simply want to know more about the law as a central feature of public life.

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Genres: Law

728 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 8, 2016

About the author

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I am a professor at the University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law, where I teach criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, international criminal law, and jurisprudence. I also teach courses on law and society at the University of Maryland, College Park.

I have also published dozens of articles in leading law journals. Before I started teaching I practiced white-collar criminal law at a leading law firm in Washington, DC, and served as a judicial clerk.

Reviews

[Blair Lain · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book offers such a straight outline of black letter common law. I will definitely be referencing back to this when I start law school.

[Jerry Karalis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Happy I read it.