Thursday, May 24, 2012

Prof reissues classic pre-law primer


I teach law and in 2010 started an academic publishing project at quidprobooks.com. I wanted to let you know, in your role as prelaw program advisor, that we just released a modern edition of a great book for prelaw, summer reading before law school, or early in the 1L term. Perhaps you'd recommend that the main library acquire it, or let students know (it's very cheap and in print and ebooks: e.g., $12 in paperback on Amazon, 10 for Kindle).

* Karl Llewellyn's The Bramble Bush, with new intro and notes by Wisconsin's Stewart Macaulay. The newest and correct edition of the classic read when contemplating law school and a legal career, often found in undergrad collections and not only law schools. Our edition corrects the misprints, added italics, and undisclosed edits of all other versions printed after 1980, even by leading publishers (they used a poor scan). We present this famous book in modern format/font, yet true to Llewellyn's final version so it should become the standard edition.
Paperback ISBN 9781610271349, http://www.amazon.com/Bramble-Bush-Our-Law-Study/dp/1610271343
Clothbound ISBN 9781610271370, http://www.amazon.com/The-Bramble-Bush-Our-Study/dp/1610271378
Its page at our website, with links to all editions, ebook formats and full description, is http://quidprolaw.com/?p=2159 . 

I would also mention, in the same Legal Legends Series:
* Benjamin Cardozo, The Nature of the Judicial Process, with new intro by Harvard Law School's Andrew Kaufman.http://www.amazon.com/dp/1610270185

* O.W. Holmes, Jr., The annotated Common Law, with intro and 200 clear notes added by me to decode and demystify it for historians, 1Ls, and nonlawyer-students.  http://www.amazon.com/dp/1610270142

Thanks,
Alan Childress
Conrad Meyer III Prof. of Law, Tulane
for quidprobooks.com

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