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fuller review to come.

One further comment. The interesting paradox about "my guide to success"-type law school books is this that they are rarely written by people who were at the absolute top at the top-ranked law schools .

Sometimes they are even written by people who did fine but not well enough to be in a position to teach others their so-called methods.

I have not seen a single book called "I graduated #1 from Harvard Law School and You Didn't" book. Most writers (including me) did very well, but not "future Supreme Court justice, bow before your master" well.

I guess it is because these "best of the best" students are simply working too hard at awesome cases (I am not being sarcastic), clerking for the Supreme Court, and having lesser graduates such as myself peel grapes for them (maybe sarcastic now) to write about how they did so well. Perhaps they also do not want to give up the recipe to the special sauce.

3. Treatises and Commercial Outlines

There are many products of this type--treatises and commercial outlines that summarize the law. These kinds of law school books--study aids, really--I believe are absolutely essential. However, it is sometimes hard to pick the right treatise or outline. Here is one you must buy; I will add more later.

• Joseph Glennon's Civil Procedure: Examples and Explanations (Examples & Explanations Series) is an American classic. I am only kind of kidding. Everyone buys Glennon to make sense of civ pro.

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