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"As the saying goes, happiness is a function of expectations. If that's the case, How To Be Sort of Happy in Law School is an important correction to many harmful myths concerning law school success, opening up new ways for students to think about their legal educations and careers. With wit that is only outdone by its wisdom, this book should be included in every law student's admission packet for years to come." (Osagie K. Obasogie, University of California, Berkeley Joint Medical Program and School of Public Health)"How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School is a remarkably wise book. A lawyer-turned-sociologist, Katie Young combines a critical perspective on the law school experience with concrete steps law students can take to survive, and even thrive. Her readers will come away from the book reassured that they are not alone, and inspired to tackle the challenges in front of them with courage, common sense, and even a good laugh every now and then." (Pamela S. Karlan Stanford Law School)"How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School comes at a most important time in legal education and will be of immeasurable benefit to law students. Kathryne Young's insights―many borne out of her own experience, alongside the experience of many attorneys―offer an honest and rare glimpse into the challenges of law school. Young provides readers with a useful and hopeful path to more fully experience the excitement and realize the opportunities found in law school and the practice of law." (Scott L. Rogers University of Miami)"Where was Kathryne Young when I was trying to decide whether to go to law school? When I was trying to decide whether to drop out? When I was outlining torts, sobbing, in the library? And when I was freaking out about jobs? Never mind. She's here now. I'm so glad that generations of law students, lawyers, and legal academics, and the folks who love them will have her patient, generous, and deeply wise voice in their heads as they launch into a life in the law. Or decide not to, which is also allowed. A big-hearted look at what can be a cold-hearted time. A must-read for the young lawyers in your orbit." (Dahlia Lithwick Slate)"This is the ONE book you should read before starting law school―and then re-read every semester. Make sure your parents and your significant other read it, too. Be prepared to laugh, and perhaps to cry. Kathryne Young has seen and done, or at least heard, it all. Learn to love law school and life from her." (Nora Demleitner Washington & Lee University)"Calm, wise, funny, compassionate, creative, enlightened...law students??? Okay, so perhaps these aren't the first words that most lawyers would use to describe themselves at law school, but this eloquent and absorbing book puts such virtues within reach, even for the most harried lawyer-to-be. I'm using it as a guide to a sort-of-happier life, myself, and I'm not even a law student!" (Ruth Ozeki bestselling author of A Tale for the Time Being)
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About the Author
Kathryne M. Young is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she teaches courses on social psychology, criminal procedure, and sociology of law. Young holds a JD from Stanford Law School, a PhD from Stanford University, and an MFA from Oregon State University. She and her wife live in Northampton, MA.
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Product details
Paperback: 312 pages
Publisher: Stanford University Press; 1 edition (August 7, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0804799768
ISBN-13: 978-0804799768
Product Dimensions:
6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.8 out of 5 stars
7 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
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Laugh if you like, but my qualifications for writing this review are that I have acquired 40+ books in the genre "how to succeed in law school," 21 of which I have read in their entirety or at least significant portions thereof. So when I happened across this book a few days ago (supposedly on vacation) in The Harvard Book Store, I had a pretty jaded outlook pulling it off the shelf. Would this book really tell me anything I hadn't already learned from the many, many others I've read? I pursed my lips and skimmed the preface, not expecting much.Then I noticed it was written **by a sociologist***, at which point I knew to purchase it on the spot, practically sprinting to the cash register in a cramped, if charming, but oh-so-crowded bookstore.Most people have zero idea what sociology is or what a professional sociologist does. So, don't feel bad if you aren't in the know about such things. But the fact that someone writing a law school advice book is a sociologist is relevant, big time! I knew I needed read no further in the store, and should snap up a copy of the book immediately before they sold out. A law school advice book by a sociologist! Pay dirt! Does not get better than that!!!Basically, sociologists are ***experts*** trained in studying difficult-to-impossible-to-study (but excruciatingly important) things such as the patterns of how people in various social settings (for example U.S. law schools) interact with one another and what the consequences arising from those interactions are.There is not, to my knowledge, **any** other book in the "how to succeed in law school" genre written by a professional sociologist. It might (or might not!) be over-stating it to say it like this, but usually, when it comes to describing and explaining social settings, really only sociologists know what the hell they're talking about.The expertise of the author makes all the difference, for example, if the author is going to provide an overview of the data on phenomena such as the law school student experience (as Kathryne Young does in this book). Other law school advice books provide quotes from respondent interviewees, for example, but what sort of sampling frame did the author use? What sort of sampling techniques? How representative is the non-sociologist author's sample? (Unless the author is a sociologist, probably the answer to all the above, if a reader-critic were to ask the author, would be, "Huh?")Unlike non-sociologist authors of all the other books in this genre, Young knows what the scientific method is, how to use it to be systematic in studying the phenomenon of interest, how to collect a random sample of respondents, how to administer a survey, how to conduct interviews, how to cite to relevant scholarly sources, and much more. (Hey, tenure committee members, are you listening? This woman should be granted tenure on the spot. OK, just kidding--sort of!)In short, unlike the other law school advice book authors (many of whose books have helped me tremendously--don't get me wrong), she knows what she's talking about. She's got the chops, intellectually speaking, to write authoritatively on what she's studied here: how law school students (of T14, 2nd tier, 3rd tier, 4th tier, RNP schools) are experiencing law school, and what interactional strategies they can use to increase their chances of feeling less anxious and depressed. Every claim she makes, every insight she proffers, she is basing in actual, honest-to-Dog social science research. She is a hero for our times!Maybe no one other than sociologists would care about causally modelling what collection of factors contributes to the confidence-rattling, self-doubt inducing pressure cooker that is law school (even at the "nice" schools). But for me (a sociologist, did ya figure that out?), I greatly appreciate her explanations as to *why* law school is so stressful. In my experience, if I can understand how a social context works, I can do much better navigating it with my sanity intact.I think this book could prevent suicides and thus save lives. If that's not an important reason for a book to exist, I don't know what is. Thank you, Professor Young, for expending the effort, and I do not know how many late nights and long months (years?) of your life, to produce this gift for all of us law school hopefuls and law school inmates at present.Young acknowledges there are a good number of books other than hers dedicated to helping students study for exams, helping them know how to maximize their chances to make law review or land a clerkship--saying those are topics beyond the scope of her book, which is a book to help students reflect on why they're feeling what they are feeling in law school and how they can change their outlook. Then she goes ahead and delves into all of those "extra" topics in a succinct, incredibly wise, nurturant and insightful manner. (!) For the budget conscious (and the time-strapped), her brief (quick-to-read) chapter on how to study, alone, is worth the price of the book.Are you listening to me? Buy this book! Stat!At the date of writing this review, I have read about 70% of the book. (I've read the first eight chapters, the last 2-3, and several of the middle chapters, kind of skipping around as has suited my priorities--or my ADHD. ;) I hope to post an update at a later date (once I've read more of the book) going into more detail on what I see as the most beneficial and distinctive contributions to the (law school advice book) literature she's made.But for now, I just want to say that if you're on your way to law school, read the first three chapters of this book. Sit down and write out your list of reasons for going to law school, as she instructs, as well as writing out your responses to other questions she poses to you in self-reflection exercises appearing in those earliest chapters. I can almost guarantee you will learn something about your reasons for going to law school that you, yourself, did not know previously. You might even realize you don't really want to, or need to, go to law school, and can save yourself $240,000 and a lot of heartache and stress. Writing helps a person gain clarity. Clarity is good. :)I'll close, here, by explaining the photo I uploaded. This book is so amazing, it's worth it to me to have bought the Kindle edition so I can read it at the gym walking on the treadmill (Kindle in the book rack) *plus* the paperbound edition so I can read the book in bed at night and de-tox from too much screen time.Best of luck, everyone reading, as you find your way forward thinking about, or surviving, law school. I highly, highly recommend Kathryne Young's book.
There are a lot of books about law school out there, but this one is different from all the others. There are at least 10 reasons why I loved it.(1) It is based on interviews and a survey of students from over 100 different law schools! So you get the real deal about what students think, not one person’s idiosyncratic experience.(2) It doesn’t assume that everyone can (or wants to) just waltz into a law firm and make a pile of cash. Nor does it assume you don’t want to. It’s a book written for all different kinds of students.(3) It respects law school but doesn’t idealize or valorize it the way some law school books do, as if law review and clerkships are the only thing worth doing. Tells it like it really is.(4) It gives you concrete steps rather than saying trite things like, “Be sure to take some time for yourself.†Yeah, the author thinks you should do that, but she also gives you a bunch of ideas about how to put this into practice.(5) Parts of it are funny AF and I actually enjoyed reading it.(6) The author actually talks about things like race, class, gender, and sexual orientation and how they affect people in law school. I don’t think any other law school book does this, and these kinds of things really do affect us in law school. It was cool to read about sociological patterns of how this affects other people too.(7) The author is not elitist even though she went to an elite school. She is also not contemptuous of elite law schools even though she went to an elite school. It is a clear-eyed look at the law school experience for students at all different places.(8) There is SO MUCH I would have never known. This book let me go into law school with my eyes OPEN.(9) Available in audiobook which was nice for me.(10) Would really be useful for ANYONE who wants to know how the “game is played†and feel like they don’t fit into law school or anywhere else in higher ed for that matter!!Basically I guarantee that whoever you are, whether you’re a law student or the friend or parent or spouse of a law student (or anyone in any professional school for that matter), you will find plenty of useful advice in this book that will make your life better. It’s the kind of book you will carry with you throughout your whole life, not just in law school!
I read this book this past weekend and found myself constantly nodding and saying "Yes!" out loud. There were just so many points in reading the stories and anecdotes that so completely resonated with my own law school experience (which was, unfortunately, felt largely miserable and lonely). I wonder how things might have been different, at least for me emotionally and mentally, if I'd had this book with me as a companion during those three years. Certainly, I would have known in many respects, the experiences of alienation and self-doubt that I was having were much more universal, and I know that even that would have been a great comfort.I've already gifted this book to two friends of mine -- one is in her first year of law school, and one is about to start in the fall. The friend who is in her first year has already professed how helpful the book has been in helping to allay so much of the anxiety that crops up during her first semester. I'm so thankful to Professor Young for putting this book out there, and it makes me happy to know that in giving her book to others, I am hopefully helping them find a better way to muddle their way through the experience that is law school, than I had myself.
Probably would have been smarterto read before I went through law school. Should be required reading in year 1
Gave this book to my son who really enjoyed reading it.
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