The Accidental Law Student: A Graphic Introduction to Law School

by Akoi, Keith; Epps, Garrett

• ISBN13: 9780814706541
• ISBN10: 0814706541
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: New York Univ Pr

Summary

Guidebooks to law school are a dime a dozen. Bookshelves overflow with volumes on how to get into law school, how to succeed at law school, how best to put your law degree to use, etc. All emphasize accomplishment, while few investigate what law school has to offer. With an elegant and provocative presentation which combines references to classic comic art with the narrative style of Art Spiegelman's Maus, accomplished artist Keith Aoki and novelist Garrett Epps here literally show us what happens -- intellectually, psychologically, logistically -- at law school. As a prospective young law student sits glumly mired in uncertainty about her future, she is confronted by two mysterious strangers who appear before her and whisk her off on a Dante-esque tour of the American law school. Alternately impudent, cynical, and supportive, the guides take her through Inferno (first year), Purgatorio (second year), and Paradiso (third year), prodding her all the while to investigate the basic purpose of her quest. Along the way, she meets such archetypal figures as Larry Leftist, Ms. Pro Bono, the Robo-Student, and Professor Deadwood. In an era of "idiot's guides" and books "for dummies, " Aoki and Epps serve up a thoughtful, entertaining, and highly original visual account of this hallowed institution.