The Law School Trip (the insider's guide to law school) [Paperback]

Andrew J. McClurg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 30, 2006

The Law School Trip (the insider's guide to law school) is a hilarious step-by-step guide to applying for, enrolling in and succeeding at law school.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A delicious read from beginning to end." -- Grif Stockley -- author of Probable Cause and Religious Conviction

"Fly, drive, walk, or crawl to buy The Law School Trip, a superb and highly entertaining parody of legal education." -- Professor Timothy R. Zinnecker

"Heaps and mounds of undulating and ululating laughter. ... McClurg makes the law school experience sparkle and shine." -- The Law Teacher (Fall 2001)

"Howlingly, gut-wrenchingly, turn purple and blow food out your nose funny!" -- The Bimonthly Review of Law Books, July-August 2001

"McClurg brings legal humor to new heights. ... Very, very funny!" -- Professor Myron Moskovitz

"More pure pleasure than anything I've read in months." -- Professor Marianne Wesson -- bestselling author of Render Up the Body and A Suggestion of Death

"The perfect antidote for legal education... A must read for law students, professors, and lawyers." -- Professor Gerry Hess -- Director of the Institute for Law School Teaching

"What a ‘Trip'! ... Truly a classic of legal humor." -- Professor David G. Owen

"[A] one of a kind piece of work that you don't have to a lawyer or law student to love." -- Text-Book.com, reviewed by Jessica Bradburn

"[D]ispense[s] buckets of advice without ever removing tongue from cheek. ... [A] loving parody ... from the eyes of one who knows." -- National Jurist, The Magazine for Law Students (Jan. 2002)

About the Author

Andrew J. McClurg is a professor at Florida International University College of Law, and has previously taught law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, the University of Colorado, Golden Gate University, and Wake Forest University. A well-known "serious" scholar in the areas of tort law and firearms policy, McClurg has won several awards both for his teaching and publications. His academic articles have been cited by numerous state and federal courts and in more than 100 different law reviews. His co-authored book, Gun Control and Gun Rights, was recently published by the New York University Press.

McClurg is the world’s most widely recognized legal humorist, through his award-winning Web site (lawhaha.com), twisted monthly column in the American Bar Association Journal (1997-2001), and humor presentations to lawyer groups.

He has been quoted as a humorist by sources such as the Associated Press and CNN.com, and as a legal expert by National Public Radio, Time, U.S. News & World Report, the New York Times, Washington Post, National Law Journal, Miami Herald, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday, and many other sources.

Contact McClurg at [e-mail].

Product Details

• Paperback: 196 pages
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing (June 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1552126463
• ISBN-13: 978-1552126462
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,192,489 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A different take on the law school experience..., September 3, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Law School Trip (the insider's guide to law school) (Paperback)

Product Warning: This book may help save your mental health, although it will inflame your funny bone. Stressed to the max by the heavy reading, Socratic method, and other burdens of starting law school? Buy this book! Laughter really is the best medicine and this book provides plenty of it. I read one Amazon customer review of The Law School Trip that compared it to the "how to succeed in law school" books, but it's not that kind of book. Although it contains a lot of insights -- sometimes subtly disguised -- it's primarily a hilarious parody of the esteemed institution we call legal education. I couldn't recommend it more highly.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great giggles, May 28, 2001

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This review is from: The Law School Trip (the insider's guide to law school) (Paperback)

This book should be required material for every first year law student, although they will appreciate it in an entirely different way when they've got a semester or two behind them. There was not a single page of this book that didn't make me laugh out loud. If you are thinking about going to law school (and who isn't?), a law school student, a lawyer, or someone who is related to a person in one of those categories, buy this book!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You'll laugh out loud!, May 25, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Law School Trip (the insider's guide to law school) (Paperback)

A must for anyone who has ever thought about going to law school (which, as the author reminds us, is just about everyone.) McClurg must be the funniest law professor around. And there's a kernel of truth in just about everything he says. McClurg is dead on in describing types of law professors (including "The Legend," "The Radical Feminist," and "The Strange Creature from Outer Space.") He can make the deadliest dull (and most famous) cases studied in the first year of law school seem funny. And McClurg's suggested improvements to actual product warnings are absolutely hysterical. It's quite an accomplishment to make me, a lawyer, laugh out loud. Read the book and you will too.