Congratulations on being admitted to Syracuse Law! Please see below for your next steps.

Visit the JDi Admitted Students Page for information specific to the JDinteractive admitted students.

Dates are subject to change.
All webinars take place 12 – 1 pm Eastern via Zoom. Sessions will be recorded and posted after the event with the exception of the mock classes and current student panel.

3/29/23   Current Student Panel                                                           RSVP
Panelist Bios
4/5/23      Student Affairs, Career Services & Externships     RSVP
4/12/23   Institutes, Clinics, and Faculty Panel                             RSVP
4/19/23   Financial Aid                                                                               RSVP
4/26/23   Mock Class                                                                                 RSVP
5/3/23      Alumni Panel                                                                               RSVP

Webinars are specific to the on-campus JD program

Many of the items below cannot be completed until May 2022.

As an admitted student, you are welcome to attend Syracuse Law Alumni Receptions and other off-campus events.

Please check back later for future events

To attend these events, please email Adrienne Graves, Director of Alumni Relations. Please be sure to let her know you are an admitted student.

Many of our incoming first year students have requested suggestions for summer reading that would help prepare them for law school this fall. It is that very enthusiasm and interest in the law that makes the first year of law school so exciting, and we look forward to sharing that enthusiasm with you. We have listed below a collection of books on the profession, jurisprudence, legal history and legal writing that may be of interest to you as you begin to think about the study of law. None of these books contains the “key” to success in your first year of law school. We offer most merely as suggestions for summer reading about law-related topics.

Highly Recommended

  • Binder, David, Paul Bergman & Susan Price. Lawyers as Counselors (1990)
  • Cappalli, Richard B. The American Common Law Method (1997)
  • Fischl, Richard & Jeremy Paul. Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams (1999)
  • Friedman, Barry & John C.P. Goldberg. Open Book: Succeeding on Exams from the First Day of Law School (2011)
  • Gallacher, Ian. Coming to Law School: How to Prepare Yourself for the Next Three Years (2010)
  • Gidi & Weihofen, Legal Writing Style (2018)
  • Irons, Peter. A People’s History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution (1999)
  • Irons, Peter. The Courage of Their Convictions: Sixteen Americans Who Fought Their Way to the Supreme Court (1990)
  • Levit, Nancy & Douglas O. Linder. The Happy Lawyer: Making a Good Life in the Law (2010)
  • McKinney, Ruth Ann. Reading Like a Lawyer: Time Saving Strategies for Reading Law Like an Expert (2005)
  • Sherwin, Richard K. When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line Between Law and Popular Culture (2002)
  • Toobin, Jeffrey. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (2008)

Recommended 

  • Banks, Russell. The Sweet Hereafter (1992)
  • Farnsworth, Edward. An Introduction to the Legal System of the United States (1983)
  • Harrington, Mona. Woman Lawyers: Rewriting the Rules (1994)
  • Hegland, Kenney. Introduction to the Study and Practice of Law (1983)
  • Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
  • Levi, Edward H. An Introduction to Legal Reasoning (1949)
  • Lewis, Anthony. Gideon’s Trumpet (1966)
  • Lewis, Anthony. Make No Law (1992)
  • Miller, Robert H. Law School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience By Students, For Students (2000)
  • Stropus & Taylor. Bridging the Gap Between College and Law School (2001)


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BARBRI Law Preview

Scholarships Sponsored by LexisNexis

BARBRI Law Preview (the nation’s largest law school prep course) has teamed up with LexisNexis to provide Law Preview Scholarships to five (5) Syracuse Law entering 1Ls.  Select members of our entering class can attend a law school prep course this summer at no cost. To learn more about this academic enrichment opportunity and see if you qualify, visit http://bit.ly/SyracuseLaw.