Textbooks @ the LRC

The LRC makes every effort to purchase textbooks for all upper division required courses, courses covering California Bar Exam subjects, and courses with student enrollment of over 50 students.

Upper division required courses at USD:

• Professional Responsibility    
• Tax I    

Upper division courses covering California Bar Exam subjects at USD:

• Corporations
• California Civil Procedure
• Community Property
• Constitutional Law II
• Criminal Procedure I
• Evidence
• Professional Responsibility
• Remedies
• Trusts and Estates

Other popular upper division courses with student enrollment over 50 students:

• Fundamentals of Bar Exam Writing 
• Multistate Bar Exam Review
• Entertainment Law

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. All other titles are currently on order.   

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 names 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. 

Corporations

• Business Organizations: a contemporary approach by Partnoy (4th ed. 2023) 
• Business Associations by Ribstein, Letsou & Lee (Draft 5th ed.) (copies to be provided to USD bookstore)
• Statutory Supplement for Hazen, Markham & Coyle's Corporations and Other Business Enterprises, Cases and Materials, 2024-2025 Edition

California Civil Procedure

• California Civil Procedure by Heiser (2017)

Community Property

• Understanding California Community Property Law by Jo Carrillo (2nd ed. 2022)
• Community Property in California by Blumberg (8th ed. 2022)

Constitutional Law II

• Constitutional Law by Stone, Seidman, et al. (9th ed. 2023)
• Cases and Materials on Constitutional Law: Themes for the Constitution's Third Century, by Farber, et al. (7th ed. 2025)
• Constitutional Law by Sullivan and Feldman (21st ed. 2022)

Criminal Procedure 

• Criminal Procedure: Investigation by Chemerinsky and Levenson (4th ed. 2022)
• You May Go to Prison by Brooks (2023)
• Criminal Procedure: Constitutional Limits on Policing, by Bellin and Gershowitz (2023)

Entertainment Law

• Entertainment Law: Cases and Materials on Established and Emerging Media, by Burr (4th ed. 2025)

Evidence

• Evidence by Fisher (4th ed. 2023)
• Evidence under the rules by Mueller & Kirkpatrick (10th ed. 2023)
• Evidence Law and Practice by Friedland et al (8th ed. 2023)

Professional Responsibility

• Developing Judgment about Practicing Law by McGowan (4th ed. 2023)
• Professional Responsibility, Standards, Rules, and Statutes, 2023-2024

Remedies 

• Remedies, A Contemporary Approach by Weaver et al (6th ed. 2024) 
• Modern American Remedies, by Laycock & Hasen (5th ed. 2019) 
• Remedies: Cases and Problems by Tabb (7th ed. 2021)

Tax

• Selected Federal Taxation Statutes and Regulations by Lathrope (2025)
• Selected Federal Taxation Statutes and Regulations by Lathrope (2023)
• Federal Income taxation by Bankman (19th ed. 2023)
• Federal income tax, code and regulations

Trusts and Estates

• Wills, Trusts, and Estates, by Sitkoff & Dukeminier (11th ed. 2022)