Law reading list: Oxford, New College
Oxford, New College lists 13 books for students about to start the course in Law. The list starts with What about Law: Studying Law at University by Catherine Barnard, Janet O'Sullivan and Graham Virgo (eds), East West Street by Philippe Sands and Nothing but the truth by The Secret Barrister. 3 of the books also appear on other Oxford and Cambridge lists we collected.
Law freshers reading 2026 (letter to law offer-holders) (University of Oxford), PDF. www.new.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2026-06/Law%20freshers%20reading%202026.pdf
Retrieved 3 October 2026. Check the source for the current year's version.
The 13 books
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- 1.What about Law: Studying Law at UniversityCatherine Barnard, Janet O'Sullivan and Graham Virgo (eds)
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- 7.The Rule of LawTom Bingham
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- 10.In Black and White: A Young Barrister's Story of Race and Class in a Broken Justice SystemAlexandra Wilson
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Other Law lists
- Oxford, St Hilda's College · 9 books
- Cambridge, Robinson College · 10 books
How this list was made
We fetched the list from the institution's own page or PDF on the date shown and recorded each title and author as printed. We did not add books, and we copied no descriptions. Obvious misprints are corrected and marked. The extraction was done with AI assistance and checked against the source. Lists change every year, so check the source page before you buy anything.