Textbooks @ the LRC

1L subjects at USD

• Civil Procedure
• Criminal Law
• Legal Writing and Research
• Torts
• Constitutional Law
• Contracts
• Property

Note: Course reserves for Spring 2025 are still being ordered and processed, and may not be available until January. All hyperlinked titles below are currently on the course reserves shelves.

This list was last updated as of December 13th, 2024.  We make every effort to procure textbooks by the start of the semester.  However, availability is dependent on several factors outside of the LRC's control: 

• Faculty ideally submit their syllabus and textbook information to the bookstore by the first week of December. The LRC and USD Bookstore do not know which books to purchase until a faculty member lists their textbook in their syllabus. 
• The LRC mainly purchases textbooks through the USD Bookstore.  If the bookstore has not received their shipment of textbooks it is also likely the LRC will not yet have the textbook. 

Civil Procedure

• Civil Procedure by Glannon (4th ed. 2021)
• Examples and Explanations for Civil Procedure by Glannon (9th ed. 2023)
• Civil Procedure Cases & Materials by Friedenthal (13th ed. 2022)
• Civil Procedure by Yeazell (11th ed. 2023) 

Criminal Law

• Criminal Law and Its Processes--Cases and Materials by Kadish (11th ed. 2022)
• Understanding Criminal Law by Dressler (9th ed. 2022)
• Criminal Law: Cases & Material by Kaplan (9th ed. 2021)
• Criminal Law & Procedure by Dripps (14th ed. 2021)

Legal Writing and Research

• Legal Writing and Analysis by Edwards (6th ed. 2023)
• The Bluebook, A Uniform System of Citation (21st ed. 2020)
• Plain English for Lawyers by Wydick (6th ed. 2019)

Torts

• Torts: Cases and Materials by Twerski  (5th ed. 2021)
• Law of Torts: Examples and Explanations by Glannon (6th ed. 2020)
• Torts & Compensation Concise by Dobbs (9th ed. 2022)
• Understanding Torts by Diamond (7th ed. 2023)
• Tort Law & Alternatives by Franklin (10th ed. 2016)
• Torts Process by Henderson (10th ed. 2022) 

Constitutional Law

• Constitutional Law by Sullivan & Feldman (21st ed. 2022)
• Constitutional Law: a Contemporary Approach by Maggs (6th ed. 2023)

Contracts

• Contracts: Cases and Doctrine 7th ed. by Barnett (2021)
• Contracts: Cases and Doctrine 8th ed. by Barnett (2024)
• Concepts and Case Analysis in the Law of Contracts by Chirelstein (2013)

Property

• Property: A Contemporary Approach by Sprankling (5th ed. 2021)
• Property: A Contemporary Approach by Sprankling (6th ed. 2024)
• Property by Dukeminier (10th ed. 2022)
• Property: Principles & Policies by Merrill et al (4th ed. 2022)