What books for law do I use in my personal statement??

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Nicholas McBride, Letters to a Law Student: A Guide to Studying Law at University: Good for figuring out what law studies involve, differences between Oxford and Cambridge, etc

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Glanville Williams, Learning the Law: Useful intro on how to read cases, what legal abbreviations mean…

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Allan Hutchinson, Is Eating People Wrong? Great Legal Cases and How They Shaped the World: Exactly what the title sounds like! Contains some fundamental first-year law cases too

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Tom Bingham, The Rule of Law: Interesting book on the foundational principles of UK law

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Catherine Barnard, Janet O'Sullivan and Graham Virgo, What About the Law?: Introductions on all the main legal modules you’ll study at any uni - Janet O’Sullivan in particular was one of my supervisors in first year, I love her written tone!

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The Secret Barrister, Stories of the Law and How it’s Broken: Criminal law shenanigans, especially “behind-the-scenes” stuff on the legal world and its flaws. Incredibly interesting!