Reading List

Summer reading

There is no need to conduct extensive reading before beginning your course, but you may wish to look at the following examples of texts that are relevant to your studies, if you would like to:

• Nicholas McBride, Letters to a Law Student, Pearson 2013, ISBN 978-1447922650 - A general introduction to studying law.
• Raymond Wacks, Philosophy of Law: A Very Short Introduction, OUP 2014, 978-0199687008
• Michael Sandel, Justice: What is the Right Thing to Do?, Penguin 2010, ISBN 978-0141041339 - The above two titles are most closely linked to the second term half module Legal Theory, which is a discursive subject covering the philosophical underpinnings of the law. As such, they are useful background for any area of law you will be studying at Warwick.
• Foucault’s Discipline and Punish (the first chapter at least), Penguin 1991, 978-0140137224 -recommended by your Criminal Law lecturers
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Common Law, Dover Publications 1991, ISBN 978-0486267463 - A rather old text that traces the development of key institutions of the common law and shows interesting interactions and links between them. A dense read for the really committed.

What books should I buy?

You will be told early on what books you should acquire for each module; do not buy any books until one of your module teachers gives you clear advice. The library also stocks most key texts and have a short loan service as well as longer term borrowing.