Ways to add to your personal statement “super-curriculars” :

• Reading books, magazines & newspapers (e.g. History Today, New Scientist, Nature,
British Medical Journal, The Economist, +Plus Magazine)
• Look through Oxplore and answer their ‘Big Questions’
• Online news sources (e.g. BBC News online, BBC Radio 4, CNN online, Al Jazeera
online)
• Free online lectures & courses (e.g. futurelearn.com, www.coursera.org, Nrich)
• How to Design a Diet and Exercise Program
• https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/introduction-to-freehand-drawing-and-sketching-
for-architecture-and-design
• AI and Law https://www.coursera.org/learn/ai-law
• University summer schools (e.g. Oxford UNIQ Summer School) and taster days.
• Competitions & projects
• Oxford Saïd Climate Change Challenge
• Relevant experiences, e.g. work experience, volunteering, visiting museums/libraries/ex-
hibitions, finding out about your local area.
Courses
Foundation in Law: Law:
A-levels: BBB A-levels: AAA (Essay subject useful)
Admission Tests: No Admission Tests: LNAT
Written Work: Maybe Written Work: No
Law Reading List
• Introduction to the Legal System:
• Nicholas J McBride, Letters to a Law Student 5th edn (Pearson UK, 2022)
• Glanville Williams: Learning the Law, 17th Edition, by ATH Smith (Sweet
& Maxwell, 2020).
• Constitutional Law:
• NW Barber, The United Kingdom Constitution: An Introduction (Clarendon,
2021), chapter 1–3.
• https:// ukcon sti tu tion allaw .org/ blog/ )
• Tom Bingham, The Rule of Law (Penguin, 2011).
• Criminal Law:
• Jonathan Herring, Great Debates in Criminal Law, 4th edition (Palgrave,
2020), chapters 1–6.
• Jonathan Herring, Criminal Law: the basics, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2022)
• Roman Law:
• B. Nicholas, Introduction to Roman Law (Clarendon Press, 1962) pages 1–
45.
What reading should I do to prepare for my application to study Law
at the University of Oxford?
The Oxford Law Faculty does not expect candidates to have any specific legal knowl-
edge. Nevertheless we believe it is in candidates' interests to have some insight into
their chosen area of study. If you wish to gain further insight into the subject we sug-
gest that you look at one or more of the following books:
• A Bradney and others How to Study Law (5th edition, Sweet and Maxwell, 2005)
• T Murphy and S Roberts Understanding Property Law (4th edition, Sweet and
Maxwell, 2004)
• C Ganz Understanding Public Law (3rd edition, Sweet and Maxwell,2001)
• J Adams and R Brownsword Understanding Law (4th edition, Sweet and
Maxwell,2006)
• J Adams and R Brownsword Understanding Contract Law (4th edition, Sweet and
Maxwell, 2004)
• C Clarkson Understanding Criminal Law (4th edition, Sweet and Maxwell, 2005)
AW Simpson Invitation to Law (Blackwells, 1993)
• Smith and Bailey Modern English Legal System (Sweet & Maxwell, 4th edition,
2001) Part I
Architecture Reading List
We recommend you read at least one of the following before coming to
interview:

▪ Moore, R. (2013), Why we build, Picador, £12.99

▪ Pallasmaa, J. (2005), The Eyes of the Skin, Wiley, £24.99. First pub-
lished 1996
▪ Samuel, F. (2019), Why Architects Matter, Routledge, £36.21
▪ Sharr, A. (2018), Modern Architecture: A Very Short Introduction,
Thames and Hudson £8.99
▪ Till, J. (2009), Architecture Depends, MIT, £12.85
You also might also find some of the following books relevant to your
interests.

Introductions to modern architecture

▪ Colquhoun, A. (2002), Modern Architecture, Oxford, £14.99

▪ Hernandez, F. (2010), Beyond Modernist Masters: Contemporary archi-
tecture in Latin America, Birkhäuser, £70
Sustainability

▪ Berners-Lee, M. (2021), There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make

or Break Years, CUP, £9.95
▪ Brand, S.(1994), How buildings learn: What happens after they’re built,
Viking, £24
▪ Monbiot, G. (2023), Regenesis, Penguin, £7.99
▪ Hagan, S. (2015), Ecological Urbanism: The Nature Of The City,Rout-
ledge £51.99
▪ Stephenson, F. (2019), Housing Fit for Purpose, £32.99
Social Justice and community

▪ Akala (2019), Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of the Empire, Two
Roads, £6.49
▪ Blokland, T. (2017), Community as urban practice, Polity Press, £14.66
▪ Boys, J. (2014), Doing Disability Differently, Routledge, £37.59
▪ Escobar, A. (2018). Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence,
Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds. Duke University Press. £21.99
▪ Fields, D. W. (2015). Architecture in Black: Theory, Space and Appear-
ance. Bloomsbury Publishing,.
▪ Schneider, T., Nishat, A. and Till, J. (2011), Spatial agency: other ways
of doing architecture, Routledge £43.99 Alternatively see
https://www.spatialagency.net/
Spatial Justice & nature

▪ Cowen, R. (2016), Common Ground, Windmill £10.11

▪ Minton, A. (2009), Ground Control: Fear and happiness in the twenty-
first-century city, Penguin, £3.32
▪ Shrubsole, G. (2020), Who Owns Britain? William Collins, £9.99
▪ Hayes, N. (2022), The Trespasser’s Companion, £12.46
▪ Cramer, D., The Narrow Edge, Yale £15.32
▪ Tree, I., Wilding: The return of nature to a British farm, Picador, £8.19
Cities

▪ Steel, C.(2013), Hungry City, Vintage, £12.99

▪ Gehl, J. & B. Svarre (2103), How to Study Public Life, Island
Press£25.18.
▪ Tonkiss, F. (2013), Cities by Design: the Social Life of Urban Form, Polity
Press,£15.65
▪ Mc Guirk J. (2015), Radical Cities: Across Latin America in search of a
New Architecture, Verso, £15.28
▪ Engel, J. et al (2022), Sacred Civics: Building Seven Generation Cities,
Routledge. Free online at https://www.routledge.com/Sacred-Civics-
Building-Seven-Generation-Cities/Engle-Agyeman-Chung-Tiam-Fook/p/
book/9781032059112
▪ Simone A. and Pieterse E. (2017), New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting
Dissonant Times, Polity, £18.99
Economics

▪ Mazzucato, M (2021), Mission Economy, Allen Lane, £7.99

▪ Raworth, K. (2018), Doughnut Economics, Penguin, £10.99
Practice

▪ Jollife, E. & Crosby, P. (2023), Architect: The Evolving Story of a Profes-

sion £32.00
▪ Ratti, C. (2015), Open Source Architecture, Thames and Hudson £9.29
▪ Samuel, F. (2023), Housing for Hope and Wellbeing, Routledge, £15
Drawing and making architecture

▪ Coates, N (2012)., Narrative Architecture, Wiley, £32.99

▪ Dernie, D.(2016), Material Imagination in Architecture, Routledge,
£37.99
▪ Farrelly, L. (2012), The Fundamentals of Architecture, AVA, £13.51
▪ Francis Kéré (2021), Momentum of Light, Lars Muller, £51
▪ Unwin, S. (2014), Analysing Architecture, Routledge, £22.94
▪ Wigglesworth, S. (2011), Around and About Stock Orchard Street,
£34.99
Fiction classics for inspiration

▪ Calvino, I. (1997), Invisible Cities, Vintage. Originally published in 1972.

£6.99
▪ Perec, G. (2008), Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, Penguin, £10.99.
Originally published in 1974.
Some of these websites may be of interest:

https://www.aisforarchitecture.org/

https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Home

https://www.decolonise.space/

https://thefunambulist.net/

https://www.urbanista.org
https://www.thenatureofcities.com

https://www.dezeen.com

https://www.archdaily.com

https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org

https://www.bl.uk/projects/national-life-stories-architects-lives

https://parlour.org.au/

https://blackarchitectsarchive.org/

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