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Law reading list: Oxford, St Hilda's College

Oxford, St Hilda's College lists 9 books for students about to start the course in Law. The list starts with Letters to a Law Student: A Guide to Studying Law at University by Nicholas McBride, Glanville Williams: Learning the Law by ATH Smith and The Politics of the Judiciary by J.A.G. Griffiths. 3 of the books also appear on other Oxford and Cambridge lists we collected.

Source

Introductory Reading Lists for Law (Law letter and reading list, June 2026) (University of Oxford), PDF. www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/asset/law-2026-27.pdf

Retrieved 3 October 2026. Check the source for the current year's version.

The 9 books

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  1. 1.
    Letters to a Law Student: A Guide to Studying Law at University
    Nicholas McBride
  2. 2.
    Glanville Williams: Learning the Law
    ATH Smith
  3. 3.
    The Politics of the Judiciary
    J.A.G. Griffiths
  4. 5.
    Eats, Shoots and Leaves
    Lynne Truss
  5. 6.
    Roman Law in Context
    David Johnston
  6. 7.
    Public Law
    Mark Elliott and Robert Thomas
  7. 8.
    Great Debates in Criminal Law
    Jonathan Herring
  8. 9.
    Smith, Hogan and Ormerod's Criminal Law
    David Ormerod, Karl Laird and Matthew Gibson

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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.