Product Description

What would you get if you crossed Dave Barry, psychedelic substances and law school? Something like The Law School Trip (the insider's guide to law school), a dizzying, hilarious tour of legal education.

Dozens of books have been written about law school, but The Law School Trip is the only insider's account written by a law professor. It's also the most twisted. McClurg – the world's most widely-read legal humorist – takes readers on a wild ride through law school from application process through the bar exam, blending true insider insights with his unique brand of laugh-out-loud parody.

Sing along with Law's Greatest Hits. Meet Strange Creatures from Outer Space and other law faculty. Learn to survive the Socratic method with treatable injuries. And be prepared to hold your sides and laugh out loud the whole way.

The Law School Trip isn't a typical "how to succeed in law school" book. It's more like a "how to succeed in keeping your sanity while freaking out about law school" book. But it's not just for law students. Every lawyer who has suffered through three years of law school needs to read this book.

Even non-lawyers will appreciate this upside-down, inside-look at legal education. Ever wonder what law school is like? Ever worry about why all those lawyers on Geraldo turned out the way they did? Ever "think about" going to law school? Join the 99.9 percent of Americans who do.

Take the law school trip. Come along if you dare.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #286877 in Books
• Published on: 2001
• Released on: 2006-06-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 196 pages

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 mcclurga@fiu.edu.

Customer Reviews

A different take on the law school experience...
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.

Great giggles
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!

You'll laugh out loud!
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.