JoanShear | 21 December, 2006 12:14
Question:
My nephew is a second year law student and I was hoping to buy him a gift book for Christmas. What do you suggest?
Answer:
We were unsuccessful in getting additional information from the patron about the law student’s interests, but came up with a short list of books that we thought might be good gift books, in no particular order:
Fiction Goes to Court: Favorite Stories of Lawyers and the Law Selected by Famous Lawyers, by Albert P. Blaustein (Editor), Greenwood Press, 1977, c1954.
Open Season on Lawyers: A Novel of Suspense, by Taffy Cannon, Wheeler Pub., 2003.
The New Yorker book of Lawyer Cartoons, Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1993.
The Green Bag Almanac of Useful And Entertaining Tidbits for Lawyers : & Reader of Good Legal Writing From the Past Year, Selected by the Luminaries and Sages on Our Board of Advisers, 2006; edited by Ross E. Davies.1st (and probably only) ed. Green Bag Press, 2005.
The Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations, by Fred R. Shapiro, Oxford University Press, 1993.
Amicus Humoriae: an Anthology of Legal Humor, compiled by Robert M. Jarvis, Thomas E. Baker, Andrew J. McClurg, Carolina Academic Press, c2003.
America’s Lawyer-Presidents: From Law Office to Oval Office, edited by Norman Gross; with a foreword by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor; Northwestern University Press; ABA Museum of Law, c2004.
Go East Young Man: The Early Years, Autobiography of William O. Douglas, 1st ed., New York, Random House [1974], also available in other editions.
Law and Literature: Revised and Enlarged Edition, by Richard A. Posner, Harvard University Press, 1998.
Some members of the reference staff suggested other gifts might be even more appreciated than a book. Ipods are now essential for study as well as music listening, although it might be hard to find a student who doesn’t own one yet. Two staff members remembered fondly nice pens that were given to them as gifts on their graduation from law school and suggested that getting a law student a pen that he or she can be proud to use. One librarian suggested that nothing would be as well appreciated as a bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue Label.
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