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First Year Law Student Guide: Law School Fiction, Memoir & More

This guide provides resources to help new UCLA law students get started with Law School and become more familiar with the Law Library, UCLA and Westwood.
URL: https://libguides.law.ucla.edu/firstyearguide

For Women

All titles below are in the Stacks unless otherwise indicated.

Law and Literature / Law and Popular Culture

All titles below are in the Stacks unless otherwise indicated.

Legal Humor, Quotations, etc.

All titles below are in the Stacks unless otherwise indicated.

Law School Memoir

All titles below are in the Stacks unless otherwise indicated.

Law School Novels

All titles below are in the Stacks unless otherwise indicated.

Law School Movies

The Law Library owns many more law-related films.  Visit the Law & Popular Culture Video Collection guide for a complete list.

Lawyer / Law Anecdotes, Non-Fiction, etc.

All titles below are in the Stacks unless otherwise indicated.

Legal Fiction

Below is a selection of legal fiction available in the Law Library Recreational Reading Collection (Tower Reading Room).  This list does not include some of those really well-known authors who write in this genre, i.e. John Grisham, Patricia Cornwell, Steve Martini, John Mortimer (Rumpole series), Richard North Patterson and Scott Turow, although we do have many of those titles in the TRR (shelved by author's last name).  We also have film adaptations of the Grisham and Mortimer novels in our Law & Popular Culture Video/DVD Collection. 

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