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Build Your Legal Library These books and prices are subject to change at any time. Please purchase the books for each term only when instructed to do so. Tuition and fees do not include the cost of books and study materials, which are the responsibility of the student. The best effort estimate of the costs of books and study materials is $800 for the first year and an average of $1,400 per year for the next three years, or $5,000 for the four year JD program. The estimates are based on using new hardcover books when available. In many cases, casebooks can be rented and/or digital versions are available at lesser expense.
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Unless otherwise noted, all books are required reading for the courses below. Please use the links below to confirm that you are selecting the correct edition/ISBN before making your purchases.
New Student Orientation Course Course Code(s)Title SF 501 New
Books & Materials Dennis J. Tonsing, 1000 Days to the Bar – But the Practice of Law Begins
Student
Now! (2d ed. 2010) ISBN:9780837738130
Orientation
SF 501 New
Barry Friedman & John C.P. Goldberg, Open Book: The Inside Track to
Student
Law School Success (2d ed. 2016) (“Friedman & Goldberg”) ISBN:
Orientation
9781454873563
First Year Law Courses Course Code(s)
Course Title
LAW 711,
Contracts I, II, & III
712, & 713
Books & Materials Brian Blum and Amy Bushaw, Contracts: Cases, Discussion and Problems (Aspen 3rd ED. 2012). ISBN: 978-1-4548-1000-1
LAW 711,
Contracts I, II, & III
Steven L. Emanuel, Crunch Time: Contracts (Aspen
712, & 713
6th Ed. 2016). ISBN-13#: 9781454870173
LAW 711,
Contracts I, II, & III
712, & 713
Tim Tyler, Nailing the Baby Bar ISBN: 9781936160044 (Law 713-Contracts III only)
LAW 721 & 722
Criminal Law I & II
David Crump, Criminal Law: Cases, Statutes, and Lawyering Strategies (LexisNexis 3rd Ed. 2013) ISBN: 978-0-7698-8270-3
LAW 721 & 722
Criminal Law I & II
Steven L. Emanuel, CrunchTime: Criminal Law, (Aspen 5th Ed. 2015) eISBN 978-1-4548-5277-3
LAW 721 & 722
Criminal Law I & II
Tim Tyler, Nailing the Baby Bar ISBN: 9781936160044 (recommended)
LAW 731,
Torts I, II, &III
732, &733
Meredith J. Duncan and Ronald Turner, Torts: A Contemporary Approach (2nd ed. 2012) (Interactive Casebook Series – West Academic Publishing) ISBN: 9780314280237
LAW 731,
Torts I, II, &III
732, &733 LAW 815
Steven L. Emanuel, Crunch Time: Torts (5th ed. 2015) (Wolters Kluwer) ISBN: 9781454840954
FYLSE Prep
Enrollment in Adaptibar FYLSE course, http://www.adaptibar.com/pricing.aspx
LAW 815
FYLSE Prep
Nailing the Baby Bar, Tim Tyler, 2015, ISBN 9781936160044
LAW 815
FYLSE Prep
Strategies & Tactics for the Finz Multistate Method, Steven Finz, 3d Edition ISBN: 9781454825067
LAW 815
FYLSE Prep
Tyler, T. (2014). Simple Torts Outline ISBN: 9781936160075
LAW 815
FYLSE Prep
Tyler, T. (2014). Simple Contracts and UCC Outline ISBN: 9781936160068
LAW 815
FYLSE Prep
Tyler, T. (2014). Simple Crimes Outline ISBN: 9781936160082
Upper Division Law Courses(Required) Course Code(s)
Course Title
LAW 741
Introduction to Legal
The Legal Writing Handbook, 6th Ed. Laurel Currie
Research and Writing
Oates & Annie Enquist, (2014) (ISBN-13: 978-1-
Books & Materials
4548-41555)
LAW 741
Introduction to Legal
The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation
Research and Writing
(Columbia Law ReviewAss’n et al. eds. 20th ed. 2015). ISBN 978-0-692-40019-7
LAW 741
Introduction to Legal
Interactive Citation Workbook for the Bluebook: A
Research and Writing
Uniform System of Citation, Tracy M. Norton, Christine Hurt & Jeffry D. Jackson, 2016 Edition. (ISBN 9781522105145)
LAW 751
Business Associations I
TBD
LAW 752
Business Associations II
TBD
LAW 761 & Civil Procedure I & II LAW 762
A. Benjamin Spencer, Civil Procedure – A Contemporary Approach – Revised Fourth Edition – Interactive Casebook Series(West Academic Publishing 2015) ISBN: 978-1-63459-272-7
LAW 761 & Civil Procedure I & II
Paula Schaefer, Developing Professional Skills: Civil
LAW 762
Procedure (West 2013) ISBN # 978-0-314-27953-8
LAW 761 & Civil Procedure I & II
William Slomanson, California Civil Procedure in a
LAW 762
Nutshell (5th ed. West Academic Publishing) ISBN: 978-1628100273 (recommended)
LAW 761 & Civil Procedure I & II
Steven L. Emanuel, Crunchtime Civil Procedure (6th
LAW 762
ed. Wolters Kluwer 2014) ISBN-13: 9781454840923 [1] (recommended)
LAW 771
Community Property
LAW 781 & Constitutional Law I & II
TBD
Massey, American Constitutional Law – Powers &
LAW 782
Liberties, (5th ed. Aspen 2016) ISBN 9781454868330
LAW 781 & Constitutional Law I & II
Emanuel CrunchTime Constitutional Law (15th ed.
LAW 782
Wolters Kluwer 2013) ISBN 9781454881315 [2]
LAW 781 & Constitutional Law I & II
Araiza, et al., Skills & Values: Constitutional Law
LAW 782 LAW 791
(LexisNexis 2013) ISBN 9781422474518
Criminal Procedure
Joshua Dressler, Understanding Criminal Procedure: Volume 1: Investigation (LexisNexis 6th Ed. 2013) ISBN: 978-0-7698-6298-9; eBook: 9780327184232
LAW 791
Criminal Procedure
2015 Supplement to Dressler (in the course Reading Materials for Seminar 1)
LAW 791
Criminal Procedure
Steven L. Emanuel, Emanuel Crunchtime Outlines: Criminal Procedure, (Wolters Kluwer 8th Ed. 2014) ISBN: 978-1-4548-2488-6
LAW 791
Criminal Procedure
Susan L. Kay, Skills and Values Criminal Procedure (2012 LexisNexis) ISBN 9781422478431; ISBN for eBook: 9780327174301
LAW 801 & Evidence I & II
David Sklansky, Evidence – Cases, Commentary and
LAW 802
Problems (2012 Aspen) ISBN: 9781454806820
LAW 801 & Evidence I & II
John B. Mitchell & Rick T. Barron, Skills & Values:
LAW 802
Evidence (2nd ed. 2012) ISBN: 978076984908-9
LAW 801 & Evidence I & II
Chris Chambers Goodman, California Evidence –
LAW 802
Examples and Explanations 2d Ed. (2d ed. 2016) ISBN: 9781454846864 (recommended)
LAW 801 & Evidence I & II LAW 802
Steven Emanuel, CrunchTime Evidence, 5th ed. Aspen 2013 ISBN: 9781454824893 (recommended)
LAW 801 & Evidence I & II
Bar Charts Inc., Evidence, Quick Study Law ISBN
LAW 802 LAW 831
13: 9781423222408 (recommended)
Professional Responsiblity
Wydick, Perschbacher & Basset, California Legal Ethics (9th ed. 2015) ISBN: 9781634592222
LAW 831
Professional Responsiblity
Morgan & Rotunda, Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility 2016, ISBN: 9781634593960
LAW 831
Professional Responsiblity
Emanuel Law Outlines: Professional Responsibility (5th Ed. 2016) ISBN 9781454868521 (recommended)
LAW 841 & Real Property I & II
Jesse Dukeminier, Property (8th ed. 2014) ISBN
LAW 842
9781454837602
LAW 841 & Real Property I & II
Brian D. Shannon & Gerry W. Beyer, Skills &
LAW 842
Values – Property Law (2012) ISBN 9781422480472 (Carolina Academic Press) or eBook: 9780327179658
LAW 841 & Real Property I & II
Steven Emmanuel, Crunchtime, Property (4th ed.
LAW 842 LAW 851
2012) ISBN: 9781454809197 (recommended)
Remedies
Douglas Laycock, Modern American Remedies, (Concise 4th Edition 2012) ISBN 978-1-4548-1255-5
LAW 851
Remedies
Russell L. Weaver, Michael B. Kelly, W. Jonathan Cardi, Remedies Black Letter Outline, (2d Edition 2014) ISBN 978-0-314-90409-6
LAW 861
Trusts, Wills, & Estates
Dukeminier & Sitkoff, Wills, Trusts & Estates (Aspen 9th ed. 2013) eISBN 978-1-4548-3756-5; ISBN-13: 978-1454824572
LAW 861
Trusts, Wills, & Estates
Peter Wendel, Emanuel Law Outlines, Wills, Trusts, and Estates (Wolters Kluwer 9th ed. 2014) ISBN: 978-1-4548-3032-0
LAW 861
Trusts, Wills, & Estates
Anderson & Boxx, Skills & Values, Trusts and Estates (Carolina Academic Press 2009) ISBN: 9781-42242-698-2
LAW 861
Trusts, Wills, & Estates
French, A California Companion for the Course in Trusts, Wills & Estates, Selected Cases and Statutes, Including All Statutes Required for the California Bar Exam, 2015-2016 (Wolters Kluwer) ISBN 978-14548-7030-2 (recommended)
LAW 871
Advanced Legal Writing
The Legal Writing Handbook, 6th Ed., Laurel Currie Oates & Annie Enquist (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business 2014) (ISBN# 978-1-4548-4155-5) [eISBN# 978-1-4548-4559-1] [3]
LAW 871
Advanced Legal Writing
The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (Columbia Law ReviewAss’n et al. eds. 19th ed. 2015). ISBN 978-0-692-40019-7 [3]
LAW 990 & General Bar Prep I & II
BarBri Outlines for Contracts, Torts, Criminal Law,
LAW 991
Real Property, available through Lexis Advance, at this link Here
LAW 990 & General Bar Prep I & II LAW 991
BarBri Outlines for Criminal Procedure and Evidence, available through Lexis Advance at this link: Here
LAW 990 & General Bar Prep I & II LAW 991
Tim Tyler, Nailing the Bar: How to Write Essays for Contracts, UCC, Torts and Crimes, (2012) ISBN 978-1-936160-00-6
LAW 990 & General Bar Prep I & II LAW 991
Tim Tyler, Nailing the Bar: How to Write Essays for Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure and Civil Procedure (Federal Civil Procedure with California Comparison) (2012) ISBN 978-1-936160-09-9
LAW 990 & General Bar Prep I & II
Tim Tyler, Nailing the Bar: How to Write Essays for
LAW 991
Real Property, Wills & Trusts, and California Community Property (2011) ISBN 978-1-936160-136
LAW 990 & General Bar Prep I & II LAW 991
Tim Tyler, Nailing the Bar: How to Write Essays for Evidence, Remedies, Business Organizations, and Professional Responsibility (2011) ISBN 978-1936160-17-4
LAW 990 & General Bar Prep I & II LAW 991
Tim Tyler, How to Write Performance Tests for Bar Exams, Practical Step Press 2016 – ISBN 978-1936160-23-5
LAW 990 & General Bar Prep I & II
Adaptibar on-line MBE program:
LAW 991
http://www.adaptibar.com/pricing.aspx (recommended)
LAW 990 & General Bar Prep I & II LAW 991
Strategies & Tactics for the Finz Multistate Method, Steven Finz, 4th Edition ISBN: 9781454825067 (recommended)
Foot Notes [1] Note that civil procedure is now tested on the California State Bar through both essay and multiple choice questions. For additional practice with multiple choice questions, you may wish to use additional sources such as Emanuel’s Strategies and Tactics for the FINZ Multistate Method, which includes 75 questions on Civil Procedure, (4th Edition) ISBN-13: 978-1454873143, or Questions and Answers Civil Procedure (4th Edition) ISBN-13: 978-1632828583, or The Glannon Guide to Civil Procedure: Learning Civil Procedure through Multiple Choice Questions, (2nd Edition) ISBN-13: 9780735579545. [2] For additional practice with multiple choice questions, you may wish to use additional sources such as Emanuel’s Strategies and Tactics for the FINZ Multistate Method, (4th ed.) ISBN-13: 9781454873143. For a big picture overview of Constitutional Law, you may wish to use the Quick Study Law Bar Chart on Constitutional Law 978-142320828-0.
Upper Division Law Courses (Electives) Course Code(s)
Course Title
LAW 734
Professional Skills I
Books & Materials Kamela Bridges & Wayne Schiess, Writing for Litigation, (Wolters Kluwer 2011) – ISBN: 978-14548-0273-0
LAW 714
Professional Skills II
TBD
LAW 735
Professional Skills III
TBD
LAW 736
Professional Skills IV
TBD
LAW 737
Professional Skills V
See LAW 734
LAW 901
Civil Trial Advocacy
TBD
LAW 902
Criminal Trial Advocacy
Trial Techniques and Trials, Thomas A. Mauet, Tenth Edition, (2017) ISBN 978-1-4548-86532
LAW 902
Criminal Trial Advocacy
Materials in Trial Advocacy, Problems and Cases, Eighth Edition (2015) ISBN 978-1-45-4852032
LAW 910
Employment Law
Marion G. Crain, Pauline T. Kim & Michael Selmi, Work Law: Cases and Materials (LexisNexis 3d ed. 2015) ISBN 978-1-63281-538-5
LAW 910
Employment Law
A.G. Harmon, The Complete Advocate: A Practice File for Representing Clients from Beginning to End (LexisNexis 2010) ISBN 978-1-4224-2992-1
LAW 910
Employment Law
Kamela Bridges and Wayne Schiess, Writing for Litigation, (2011) Wolters Kluwer ISBN 978-1-45480273-0 [1] (recommended)
LAW 910
Employment Law
Laurie Currie Oates and Anne Enquist, The Legal Writing Handbook, Sixth Ed. 2014 (Wolters Kluwer) ISBN978-1-4548-4155-5 [2] (recommended)
LAW 920
Independent Study
TBD
LAW 921
Intellectual Property I
TBD
LAW 922
Intellectual Property II
TBD
LAW 931
Bankruptcy
Tabb & Brubaker, Bankruptcy Law: Principles, Policies, and Practice (4th edition 2015, Carolina Academic Press, ISBN: 978-1-63043-081-8; e-ISBN: 978-1-63043-082-5)
LAW 935
Compliance
Miller, Geoffrey. The Law of Governance, Risk Management and Compliance. Wolters Kluwer Law and Business, 2014. ISBN: 1454845449
LAW 940
Federal Income Taxation
J. Martin Burke and Michael K. Friel, Understanding Federal Income Taxation LexisNexis 5th Ed. 2016) ISBN: 9781522103486 (Understanding Federal Income Taxation)
LAW 940
Federal Income Taxation
Michelle L. Drumbl and Deborah S. Kearns, Skills & Values: Federal Income Taxation (LexisNexis 2011) ISBN: 978-1-4224-7842-4 (Skills & Values)
LAW 950
Legal Externship
The Moral Compass of the American Lawyer, Richard Zitrin and Carol Langford, (1999) ISBN: 0449-00671-9.
LAW 950
Legal Externship
Learning From Practice, A Professional Development Text for Legal Externs, Second Edition, J.P. Ogilvy, Leah Wortham and Lisa Lerman, (2007) ISBN 9780-314-15284-8.
LAW 950
Legal Externship
In Chambers: A Guide for Judicial Clerks and Externs, Jennifer Sheppard (2012), ISBN 978-14548-0289-1. (recommended)
LAW 960
Administrative Law
William F. Fox, Understanding Administrative Law, published by LexisNexis (6th ed. 2012) – ISBN 9781422498651; eBook published by Carolina Academic Press ISBN 9780327183006
LAW 960
Administrative Law
Alfred Aman & William Penniman, Skills & Values: Administrative Law, – ISBN 9781422483282
LAW 960
Administrative Law
Crunchtime, Administrative Law, (Aspen 4th ed., 2016) ISBN-13: 978-1454868507 (recommended)
LAW 960
Administrative Law
Jellum and Jordan, Questions and Answers: Administrative Law, (Carolina Academic Press 3rd ed. 2015) ISBN: 9781630447892 (recommended)
LAW 970
Alternative Dispute
The Third Side, William Ury (2000) ISBN 0 14
Resolution
LAW 970
02.9634 4
Alternative Dispute
Skills and Values: Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Resolution
John Burwell Garvey & Charles B. Craver (2013) ISBN 978-0-7698-5119-8 ebook ISBN 978-0-32717972-6
LAW 980
Children & the Law
TBD
Foot Notes [1] You may already have this textbook if you have taken LAW 734 and/or LAW 737 [2] You may have this book if you have taken LAW 741 and/or LAW 871.
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