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Law School and Exams: Preparing and Writing to Win, Fourth Edition

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Authors
  • Charles R. Calleros
  • Louis N. Schulze Jr.
Series / Academic Success Series
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Book length
384 pages
Publication Date
2025-06-02
Edition
Fourth Edition
Teaching Materials
NO
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Law School and Exams: Preparing and Writing to Win, Fourth Edition is the fourth edition of a popular book whose first edition Bryan Garner reviewed and judged to be “the best on the market.” It combines:
 
  1. Clear and comprehensive explanations of study and exam techniques
  2. Numerous illustrative samples that are truly instructive
  3. Twenty in-class exercises or take-home assignments on everything from case briefs to essay and multiple-choice exam questions.
 
Comprehensive and self-contained, the Fourth Edition is suitable for use as the textbook for a sophisticated Prelaw course, 1L Orientation, or a 1L Academic Success course. Alternatively, incoming 1Ls can work through it independently over the summer to be optimally prepared for law school in the fall.
 
New to the Fourth Edition:
  • New material throughout the book from the engaging voice and ASP teaching experience of new co-author, Louis Schulze
  • The latest in learning theory, including focus and engagement, spaced repetition with interleaving, active learning through hands-on practice; and the importance of mindset, mindfulness, and well-being
  • New material on strategies for preparing for and taking exams
  • Discussions of AI in legal practice,
    • and in student work when called for in a course, but
    • underscoring the necessity of otherwise doing one’s own work as a 1L to develop the required knowledge and skills to later harness, review, and revise AI
 
Professors and student will benefit from:
  • The way the book facilitates a flipped classroom:
    • The clear and detailed explanations and illustrations will enable students to prepare well for class, permitting the professor to provide a quick summary of key points before turning to active learning through brainstorming, problem-solving, discussion, debate, writing exercises, and formative assessment.
  • Clear explanations and illustrations for reading assignments and numerous exercises for in-class active learning
  • Sample answers in the Appendix for all in-text exercises, to help students check their understanding
  • A major in-text take-home assignment requiring case synthesis, that can be used to further gauge student’s understanding
 

 
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Table of Contents
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

Contents 
Acknowledgments 
Introduction 

PART ONE SUCCESS IN THE STUDY OF LAW 
Chapter 1 Preparing for Law School 
Chapter 2 How to “Do” Law School 
Chapter 3 The Case Method: Focus on Judicial Opinions 
Chapter 4 Reading and Briefing Cases 
Chapter 5 Taking and Reviewing Class Notes 
Chapter 6 Synthesizing Cases 
Chapter 7 Preparing Outlines and Flowcharts 

PART TWO SUCCESS IN TAKING LAW SCHOOL EXAMS 
Chapter 8 Preparing for Exams with Active Study and Practice 
Chapter 9 Getting Primed for the Task 
Chapter 10 Techniques Common to All Essay Questions 
Chapter 11 Fact-Based Essay Questions with Uncertain Conclusions 
Chapter 12 Essay Questions of a Different Kind 
Chapter 13 Objective Questions: True-False and Multiple-Choice 

Appendix A Sample Case Brief for the Exercise at the End of Chapter 4 
Appendix B Sample Syntheses in the Exercises at the End of Chapter 6 
Appendix C Sample Answers to Outlining Exercises in Chapter 7, Section III 
Appendix D Sample Answers to Exercises Relating to Fact-Based Essay
Questions with Uncertain Conclusions in Chapter 11 
Appendix E Sample Answers to Exercises Relating to Essay Questions
of a Different Kind in Chapter 12 
Appendix F Answers and Explanations for Exercises Relating
to Objective Questions at the end of Chapter 13
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About the authors
Charles R. Calleros
Professor of Law
Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University

Charles Calleros is Emeritus Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, where he taught Legal Method and Writing, Advanced Writing Seminar, Legal Analysis, Contracts, International Contracts, and Civil Rights Legislation, before retiring January 1, 2024. He directed the College’s Academic Success Program from 2018 to 2022.

Following graduation with honors from the U.C. Davis School of Law in 1978, Professor Calleros clerked for the Office of Central Staff Attorneys for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He credits his mentors there with stimulating his fascination for legal writing, prompting his request to be assigned to teach in the legal writing curriculum when he entered teaching in 1981 after completing his term as a Central Staff Attorney and then clerking for Ninth Circuit Judge Procter Hug, Jr. During his 43 years of teaching, Professor Calleros composed hundreds of law school exams, and he has closely reviewed, scored, and graded many thousands of them. His insights on legal analysis and exams became the first edition of this book in 2007. For this fourth edition, he now combines those insights with the expertise of new co-author, Professor Louis N. Schulze, Jr.

Louis N. Schulze, Jr.
Florida International University College of Law

Louis Schulze is Associate Dean and Professor of Academic Support at FIU College of Law. For two decades, he has worked to foster his students’ success by teaching “how to do” law school, as his students put it. He teaches doctrinal courses embedded with academic support and support courses contextualized with students’ current courses. He has taught Legal Analysis, Legal Reasoning, Introduction to the Study of Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure (Investigation), Torts, Evidence, and Legal Writing.

Professor Schulze implemented programs at several law schools providing curricular and co-curricular academic support. At FIU College of Law, he and a colleague created the Academic Excellence Program to improve student outcomes, including bar passage. He also consults with other law schools to help them leverage effective support methods.

Professor Schulze’s scholarship advocates for an increased use of the science of learning in legal education, focusing on concepts such as metacognition, cognitive schema theory, and self-regulated learning. He has been published in numerous law reviews and has presented those works at Columbia Law School, the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Texas A&M University School of Law, and the AALS Annual Meeting, among other venues. He served as Chair of the AALS Section on Academic Support, co-founded the New England Consortium of Academic Support Professors, served as a Board Member of the AALS Section on Empirical Study, and co-founded the Association of Academic Support Educators, serving as its inaugural Secretary. Professor Schulze lives in South Florida with his wife and two children and their two crazy dogs.

Product Information
Edition
Fourth Edition
Publication date
2025-06-02
Copyright Year
2025
Pages
384
Paperback
9798889068716
Connected eBook (Digital Only)
9798889068730
Subject
Introduction to Law
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