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Can i use the 4th edition or do you guys recommend the newest?

I'd recommend neither. I didn't find E&E useful for torts, personally. Just go to the library and look at Dobbs when you have a question. Unless your teacher is garbo, you should be able to get all you need from class. Do you know your textbook yet?

If you insist I'm sure 4th edition will be fine.

sandwhich wrote:I'd recommend neither. I didn't find E&E useful for torts, personally. Just go to the library and look at Dobbs when you have a question. Unless your teacher is garbo, you should be able to get all you need from class. Do you know your textbook yet?

If you insist I'm sure 4th edition will be fine.

Dont know yet. I'm trying to be productive and made a amazon cart before law school.

ahri wrote:

sandwhich wrote:I'd recommend neither. I didn't find E&E useful for torts, personally. Just go to the library and look at Dobbs when you have a question. Unless your teacher is garbo, you should be able to get all you need from class. Do you know your textbook yet?

If you insist I'm sure 4th edition will be fine.

Dont know yet. I'm trying to be productive and made a amazon cart before law school.

Trust me, we all understand 0L summer anxiety. But also trust me when I say you're not going to cover anything for at least 3 weeks that you could possibly need an E&E for. Wait and see if you need it before you buy it. Also, there will almost certainly be 2Ls dumping off their old supplements for like 5 bucks so you can save some green.

do you recommend supps for 1L?

ahri wrote:do you recommend supps for 1L?

Oh god yes. But just not E&E for anything but civ pro. There are much better supplements out there IMO

Your law library should have these books for free, especially the older editions. No need to spend money or time on supplements until you start classes and figure out what works best for you.

What supps for Contracts would you recommend?

the recommendation page says e&e's but what do you guys recommend

ahri wrote:the recommendation page says e&e's but what do you guys recommend

Here's what I used:

Dobbs for Torts
Farnsworth for K
E&E for Civ Pro
Dressler for Crim Law
Chemerinsky for Con
Sprankling for Property

As you can see I leaned on treatises more than condensed supplements. This is because I think that a "deeper" understanding of the law served me better for exam purposes. It worked for me but, as alluded to above, it's not for everybody.

For any given section, I'd read the supplement section BEFORE reading the casebook. That way, I knew what the heck they were talking about in the case. Then you just had to take down the case name to cite on an exam and have a cursory knowledge of the facts in the event of a cold call.

What to read BEFORE school starts:
1) Getting to Maybe (potentially a must-read)
2) A Civil Action by Johnathan Harr (certainly a must-read)

sandwhich wrote:

ahri wrote:the recommendation page says e&e's but what do you guys recommend

Here's what I used:

Dobbs for Torts
Farnsworth for K
E&E for Civ Pro
Dressler for Crim Law
Chemerinsky for Con
Sprankling for Property

As you can see I leaned on treatises more than condensed supplements. This is because I think that a "deeper" understanding of the law served me better for exam purposes. It worked for me but, as alluded to above, it's not for everybody.

For any given section, I'd read the supplement section BEFORE reading the casebook. That way, I knew what the heck they were talking about in the case. Then you just had to take down the case name to cite on an exam and have a cursory knowledge of the facts in the event of a cold call.

What to read BEFORE school starts:
1) Getting to Maybe (potentially a must-read)
2) A Civil Action by Johnathan Harr (certainly a must-read)

thanks. so are e&e s more like talking points? i rather have the indepth text for the same reason as yours, for exams.

The law of torts stopped developing in like 1917. New editions of supplements are money grabs, pure and simple.