Welcome to mcbridesguides. Click on the menu items above to access essays on otherwise hard-to-understand areas of law, and other materials and links that I hope will help you in your legal studies and researches. Please feel free to leave comments on any of the posts on this site – I will learn something from them, and so will other people.
Nick McBride
Your an amazing fella. Read your book and I don’t think I will ever find a comparable and avid teacher and author in one. Starting at the uni of York with your book in hand 🙂 well done and THANK YOU!!
‘You’re’* ‘as avid a teacher’*
I start doing an open university law degree in October this year, never felt more confident after reading your book many thanks, A wealth of information that will be useful to any nervous potential law student.
Thank you so much for your website and the resources you share. I find your personal advice very useful and wise, and funny at the same time. And I really enjoy the articles on equity, they really help me to solidify my understanding of the key concepts. The world is a better place with a great teacher like you. Thank you once again for sharing with us.
Letters to a Law Student is not only an excellent book for budding law students. It is a guide to approaching studies or work in multiple fields and even life I am a banker in my mid-40s and have been using it as reference and even a solace for several years now . This book is a classicand should be required reading for any high school senior or college freshman – and not just academically but even forgo how to live a good life. I see it as an extension of the stoic school of thought, with its appeal to rational thinking, calm, excellence and the supremacy of the mind over emotion. And the essays in the “Personal Advice” section on this website remind me of Seneca’s letters in their direct value. And Mr. McBride’s writing style is second too non.
My only appeal to Nick is that you provide us with some you tube videos to talk through some of your ideas or at leat
Brilliant book ‘4th Edition’ I am a mature student at the age of 30, so this is daunting however your book and your resources have made me even more hungry to study law. I start at UEL in September.
I am currently reading your book, “letters to a law student”. I am awed, excited and grateful. I am not a first year student but, how I wish I read it earlier.
The thought of reading your other books is exciting.
Thank you so much!!!
Thank you!!! A simple comment does not provide the opportunity to express how grateful I am for your book “Letters to a law student” and also for the material shared on this site. The book has been my law school bible since my very first year and find so much useful advise transferrable even out of university.
This website continues to be an amazing resource. McBride seems to be one of the (very) few authors able to blend an in-depth analytical rigour with common sense.
He’s also a relatively fearless academic. I suggest his recent paper on legality… It’s extremely interesting that very few other high profile academics have written anyting the subject.
More PQs!