6 great books that law practitioners should not miss
Always cultivating specialized knowledge is a prerequisite to improve your expertise. For me, books are good friends and good teachers that we can all learn from.
1. Lawyer’s legal thinking – Nguyen Ngoc Bich – Tre Publishing House
As I have shared, argument skills and legal thinking are skills that every lawyer needs to practice and constantly learn. If you don’t know where to begin, this book will be a good start.
The content of the book “Legal Thinking of Lawyers” is divided into 4 parts:
- Part one: Introduce you to legal thinking and outline the conditions you must have or have to change to get the legal thinking. After graduating from law school, you do not have the legal thinking ability to become a lawyer; because law school trains you to be a legal officer (which means to research laws for others to apply, and to monitor their implementation). You will know more about this from Chapter 2 of this section.
- Part two: Present legal thinking; including implementation method; cases for you to “practice” and know the nature of legal questions.
- Part three: Give some cases for you to practice on your own to test the use of legal thinking..
- Part four: Some additional reading to expand your knowledge.
2. How to be a successful lawyer – Nguyen Hoang Trung Hieu – Thanh Nien Publishing House
In the common perception of many Lawyers, practicing experience is a secret, but this secret has been “revealed” by the author through this book. The purpose of this book is to help students and those who want to pursue a career in Law with reference conditions to soon achieve success. This book offers 7 groups of skill, the author has skillfully integrated into the circuit to tell situations during his practicing time.
3. Skills to practice as a consulting lawyer – Truong Nhat Quang – Labor Publishing House
Like the above books, the book “Skills to practice as a consulting lawyer” is written mainly for readers who are young lawyers with the desire to help you train the basic skills to succeed in the environment of a professional law firm.
The book provides readers with the most basic and necessary skills for lawyers, especially young lawyers who have just entered the profession. In addition to professional skills and soft skills, issues of professional ethics and responsibilities of lawyers when practicing are also mentioned by the author.
4. The spirit of Laws – Montesquieu – Political- Administrative Publishing House
This book is one of the books that accompanied me on my journey to learn about Law. This is the masterpiece of the author Montesquieu. It took him 20 years to complete this work. The main theme of the work is to give the reasons that determine the legal status of each country, to present the necessary conformity between the law and the rule of a country, and to present the necessary conformity linked among rules.
He did not study in purely jurisprudence but he studied the soul of the law. He wanted to explore the law, the order of law in all majorities such as the Roman Empire and France or the Germanic peoples of the Middle Ages, some extremely valuable chapters such as the English Constitution, or the discussion of the three polities Republic, Monarchy, Autocracy, etc.
5. The Philosophy of Law – Raymond Wacks – Knowledge Publishing House
If you are looking to learn the law in a lively and easy to understand way, then Raymond Wacks’ The Philosophy of Law is the right choice for you. The book leads readers to learn, explore the concepts of law in an interesting way as well as bring out the role of law in our lives. The book covers and discusses many topics such as women’s rights, environmental protection, racism, etc.
Referring to the world’s key thinkers from classical to modern, he looked at the central questions behind legal theory that have always intrigued jurists and philosophers, as well as many others about the relationship among law and justice, morality, and democracy.
6. Justice – What’s the right thing to do? – Michael SANDEL- Tre Publishing House
Lawyers need not only sharp arguments, a cool head, but also a hot heart and strong empathy.
“In life, Right – Wrong, True – False always exist in parallel. On the same issue, someone says Right, someone says Wrong, someone insists on True, someone insists on False. Everyone has an opinion, everyone has a point. However, each person’s behavior is completely different and almost all those behaviors do not have a standard called legal or ethical at all. All judgment is sometimes not in the head, but in the heart.”
Indeed, the problem has many facets and our judgment is not always the same as that of others. That doesn’t mean who’s wrong and who’s right. This book helps us to see things and evaluate in the most objective and calm way.
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