Do you have your summer reading list yet?

Tia Gibbs, the new ASP Professor at St. Thomas in Miami, placed a request on the listserv this past spring asking ASP'ers to recommend books and articles for a summer reading list. Many ASP'ers responded, and Tia kindly shared the suggested reading list with the listserv. In case you missed her posting and are considering your own summer reading, here is the list that she shared:

Suggested Reading Material for ASP Professionals

Books

1. Expert Learning for Law Students by Michael Hunter Schwartz
2. How to Raise an Adult  by Julie Lynthcott-Haims
3. Excellent Sheep –The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Wait to a Meaningful Life by William Deresiewicz
4. Reading Like  a Lawyer by Ruth Ann Mckinney
5. Bridging the Gap from College to Law School by by Ruta K. Stropus, Charlotte D. Taylor
6. Law School Exams: A Guide to Better Grades. By by Alex Schimel
7. Bridging the Gap by Charlotte Taylor
8. Reading Like  a Lawyer by Ruth Ann Mckinney
9. Succeeding in Law School by Herb Ramy
10. First Year Law School Success: The Ultimate and Essential Guide for Every 1L by Ira L. Shafiroff
11. The Companion Text to Law School: Understanding and Surviving Life with a Law Student (for families and significant others) by Andrew McClurg
12. Juris Types: Learning Law through Self-Understanding (based on MBTI types) by Marty and Don Peters
13. "Why Don't Students Like School" by Daniel Willingham
14. Critical Reading for Success in Law School and Beyond by Jane Grise
15. “Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning” by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III & Mark A. McDaniel
16. Small Teaching by James M. Lang
17. Teaching with Your Mouth Shut by Donald Finkel
18. Pass the Bar: A Practical Guide to Achieving Academic & Professional Goals by Sara Berman
19. A Short & Happy Guide to Being a Law Student by Paula A. Franzese
20. A Weekly Guide to Being a Model Law Student by Alex Ruskell
21. Off the Charts Law Summaries: An All-in-One Graphic Outline of the 1L Law School Courses by Julie Schechter
22. Teaching Law by Design by Michael Hunter Schwartz by Sophie M. Sparrow,Gerald F. Hess
23. Learning Outside the Box: A Handbook for Law Students Who Learn Differently by Leah M. Christensen 
24. Mastering the Law School Exam (Career Guides) by Suzanne Darrow-Kleinhaus  (Author)
25. How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching by Susan A. Ambrose 
26. Exam First Aid by Jennifer Kamita, Christopher Hawthorne, Sascha Bernsinger (help identifying mistakes with multiple choice/ teaching multiple choice)
27. A Weekly Guide to Being a Model Law Student by Alex Ruskell (extremely helpful for those students that let time slip away quickly during their first year)

Law Review Article

28. The Art and Science of Academic Support by Kris Knaplund
29. Mary Ann Becker, Understanding the Tethered Generation: Net Gens Come to Law School, available at  https://lawecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1531&context=facpubs
30. Louis N. Schulze, Using Science to Build Better Leaners…, available https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2960192
31. Helicopter Professors by Emily Grant  available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2904752