Reddit mentions: The best law specialties books

Hang in there dude(tte). My first piece of advice is to follow 3point1415987's piece of advice. But if you are dead-set on lawschool, and you don't need a bunch of internet strangers venting their personal anecdotes as to why it's not a good idea, then buckle down, take some more practice tests and go back fighting.

I've never been very studious, but I usually test pretty well (at least in standardized tests). But this is reddit, don't we all? I read the PowerScore series, which I HIGHLY recommend, did the questions in the book, took a practice test or two, and thought that I was ready for the LSAT. It might have been nerves, or maybe I just hadn't mastered the art of managing one's time, but I scored a 156. Ehh, not the end of the world, but with my GPA, that 156 wouldn't get me far (read: my gpa wasn't very hot).

I found a study partner (I don't want to say this is "good advice" but I was rather attracted to my study partner and believe that motivated me to study harder), we scheduled practice tests together, went over each others' scores and explained why and how we came to a particular answer one got right and the other wrong, and we did this for 2 months straight. Honestly, it was an overall positive experience. And as I'm sure you can imagine, otherwise this story would be shit, I did pretty well. I know it's generally not cool to reveal your LSAT if it's decent, but no one knows me, and this is meant to convey that improvement is possible for retakers: I got a 174. The first time is NOT necessarily indicative of the next. Once you get over the fact that the LSAT is a rather unique test, and it's ALL about practice over knowledge (it's not actually studying ANY knowledge) and you apply that to your study methods (take as many practice tests as you can, and find a way that makes it rewarding--I found a study partner with which I enjoyed spending time).

Good luck to you! I only wish I could have followed my advice to study for the bar :\

The school system will do evaluations and assessments and if he does qualify for special education, they will make an IEP and then you can look for services such as ABA if that is what you would like to do. The IEP process can be confusing and intimidating, and I highly recommend buying a book about IEP & special education laws (something like this http://www.amazon.com/Wrightslaw-Emotions-Advocacy-Education-Survival/dp/1892320096/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=1EZY9R4M8VA69ZEV2Q2W )

You can also get a referral from your doctor to see a specialist and get additional evaluations done if you are not comfortable with only the school district's evaluation.

Texas has a program that offers ABA therapy and other services to children between 3-8 (once early intervention services end at 3yrs). It is funded through grants and is on a sliding scale depending on income and services required.

http://www.dars.state.tx.us/stakeholders/autism/index.shtml

I know this is all a lot to take in and try to sort out. The beginning of this journey will be tough but it gets better. The CDC has a great roadmap for what to do once you suspect your child has autism. It's got great suggestions and strategies.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/concerned.html

Autism Speaks has an awesome resource for parents in the early stages of the process that introduces everything you will need to know to make well-informed decisions . It's called the First 100 Days Kit.

http://www.autismspeaks.org/docs/family_services_docs/100_day_kit.pdf

If you have more questions while you are waiting for services, feel free to PM me and I'd be happy to help.

I bought this book and it was really helpful. Super super thorough. It was probably just as difficult if not a little more difficult than the test. I also bought this book. It was extremely easy, and I would not recommend it for preparation.

I first did the Peterson's practice test to find out what I needed to study and improve on. Then I studied out of the books. A week before the test I bought one practice tested from AFOQTguide.com. I also signed up for the news letter which got me a second (outdated) practice test for free.

I did pretty well. My scores were P94/N89/AA87/V89/Q68. I'm just a pretty average dude when it comes to academics so I think my studying is what really helped me.

Exactly.

The way I describe SLS is that for a long time, contractors worked to see how much money they could extract out of NASA while building the hardware that NASA would use to do interesting things (Apollo), slightly less interesting things (shuttle), and then mostly mundane (ISS).

Then the contractors realized that the only thing better than getting paid a ton of money to fly was getting paid a ton of money to not fly. Why should Boeing work hard to get SLS functional? It actually makes their work harder than continuing the delays, and it's not like being slow or making big mistake has cost them when it comes to incentives.

Have you read Simberg's "Safe is not an option"? It's a great discussion about taking risks when it's useful to do so, and not taking risks when you aren't doing anything interesting...

https://www.amazon.com/Safe-Not-Option-Rand-Simberg/dp/0989135519

I know they're more convenient, but I would avoid online tests as any I found were unreliable and not nearly as good as practice/study guides. I would highly recommend these two books (links below). I studied both for a couple months and scored well on every section of the test (just got selected for RPA). The books are pretty different from one another but combined, prepared me well for the test.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1628454776/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1635301041/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Keep in mind there may be updated versions. I took the AFOQT last summer.

Forget all the "about law school/1L" books. You've already read law school confidential and all the rest are exactly the same.

I strongly urge you to read Brush With the Law it is awesome and truthful. Law school really isn't that hard if you don't want it to be. All it takes is choosing the right classes and getting good outlines.

Commercial Crew's problems are primarily down to NASA's fear and Congress not funding it properly. The technical issues were never the hardest part. SpaceX could have flown people on the original Dragon capsule, but for NASA. For an excellent look at how NASA has hampered rather than enabled space exploration, settlement, and more, I highly recommend Safe Is Not An Option.

...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age by Walter Mcdougall is a solid work on spaceflight and how it came to be, but it's prett heavy if you don't know much about the subject.

Also, Crowded Orbits: Conflict and Cooperation in Space by James Clay Moltz can be used as a primer on Space exploration and policy. It is more focused on the 21st century use of space, but he explains very well how the beginning of the space age still affects the way space is being used today.

My third suggestion is a more basic and simple approach, Space Exploratiom for Dummies will take you through a quick history of each space program.

Read on!

Do you have the Law in Higher Ed book by Kaplin & Lee? If so, there is an index of cases used in the back of the text. If not, you can find that index on the book's Amazon Page and find some cases that way. It's been a while since I had to know any case law, but interesting and historical cases that I remember had to do with Title IX and Affirmative Action. Sorry about the vagueness and likely unhelpful response. Like I said, it's been a while...

Study for the October LSAT. Kill it. Apply as soon as your score comes out (if not before).

Make sure your recommendations are great. These matter more than people think. Make sure your personal statement is great. This matters more than people think.

As far as studying the LSAT, probably get the Powerscore Logical Reasoning Bible and the Powerscore Logical Games Bible to study from. Also get a bunch of preptests. If your score plateaus for a while and you can't seem to get past it, hire a tutor. Starting at a 167 means its unlikely you will need to take a course.

I must say after all this I am starting to lean twords the 21. And of course safety is number 1. I was also thinking about picking up this book just for some "safe" reading. I still have alot to think about but like I said im now leaning twords the 21.



http://www.amazon.com/How-Stay-Jail-California-2002/dp/0964286408/ref=lh_ni_t

Not too many active players mentioned, but this book was pretty eye opening http://www.amazon.com/Out-Bounds-Inside-Culture-Violence/product-reviews/0060726024.

I took a class with the same name and same casebook last year as a 1L. In my class, we split the semester between statutory interpretation and admin law. Our exam was a prompt that asked how a court would interpret a proposed statute that had some agency tie-ins, but it tested the statutory interpretation material more heavily than the admin law material. I used this supplement, so, hopefully, it will help you if your exam turns out to be similar to mine.

> Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, former president of the National Lawyers Guild, deputy secretary general of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers and an advisory board member of Veterans for Peace. Cohn, who has testified at military hearings and courts-martial about the duty to disobey unlawful orders, is co-author (with Kathleen Gilberd) of Rules of Disengagement: The Politics

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Currently looking to buy the following to study for my AFOQT:

This one

Maybe this one

Or this one


Which one do you all recommend?

Here is a link to a Special Ed. Law textbook to get you started in the meantime though: https://www.amazon.com/Special-Education-Pearson-Loose-Leaf-Version/dp/0133399850/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495505890&sr=1-5&keywords=special+education+law. It costs 67.16-70.84 dollars ($67.16-70.84) for the loose leaf version. You might need a 1 inch ring binder to put it in.

Edit: The exact dollar amounts being put in.

Specifically: http://www.amazon.com/How-Own-Gun-Stay-Jail/dp/0964286459

I dont advice you to use this, the art is copyrighted https://www.amazon.com/Kids-Books-Adventure-adventure-pirates-ebook/dp/B01CNVP4FY

i'm not being funny, but if they treated every incident the way they're treating Rice, they would have to remove 25% of the players from the game

the NFL and NBA are full of felons, there have been books written on the subject

http://www.amazon.com/Pros-Cons-Criminals-Who-Play-ebook/dp/B001IWL2EC/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=undefined&sr=8-2&keywords=nfl+felons

http://www.amazon.com/Out-Bounds-Jeff-Benedict-ebook/dp/B000FC1RBY/ref=pd_cp_kstore_0

http://www.amazon.com/LSAT-Logical-Reasoning-Bible-Comprehensive/dp/0980178258/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b these things. Kaplan the one LSAT prep group I would avoid, using them actually brought my practice scores down, but powerscore helped me a lot, especially on the logic games, but I guess everybody's different.

Some other good works to read about "the banality of evil" are Eichmann in My Hands, People of the Lie and Nuremberg Diary.

Source: Blind Eye to Murder by Tom Bower (Granada Publishing: 1983) page 272, figure 8. The caption for the image reads: “Colonel Gerald Draper of the British War Crimes Group photographed as he finally secured the confession of Rudolph Hoess, the commandant of Auschwitz, to the murder of three million people.”

That's the premise of Rand Simberg in his book Safe Is Not An Option.

In a trial and error learning process we will make mistakes and there will be loss of property and possibly life. If we can't accept that, we're done -- some will argue.

I partially agree. I think focusing on improving the robotic state of the art and robotically establishing infrastructure on other bodies can largely mitigate risk to human life. But you will still lose expensive payloads in a trial and error process.