Juris Types: Learning Law through Self-Understanding is a first-of-its-kind law school study guide. Written by law school professors and psychological type experts Don and Martha Peters, Juris Types goes beyond general study tips to help you find learning strategies ideally suited to your unique personality. The means to better self-understanding and study strategies is the well-established personality theory of psychological type, familiar to millions of people who have taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® instrument. Juris Types begins with a clear, straightforward explanation of the concepts of type, addressing the different ways we take in and process information, organize our time and attention, and make decisions. The bulk of the book is dedicated to applying knowledge of type to study routines and exam-taking strategies. Included is a CD-ROM of reproducible step-by-step exercises to help guide you through each chapter. You will discover your own methods to better organize your time, study effectively, and prepare for and perform successfully on tests. An indispensable tool for maximum law school success with a minimum of stress.

MARTHA M. PETERS, PH.D., (Marty) is an educational psychologist whose career for more than two decades has been focused on helping law students adapt successfully to law study and to law exams. She has directed academic support programs at the University of Florida College of Law and the University of Iowa College of Law. Marty is currently a professor of legal education at the Elon University School of Law in Greensboro, North Carolina. She is a coauthor with Robert F. Cochran Jr. and John M. A. DiPippa of The Counselor-at-Law: A Collaborative Approach to Client Interviewing and Counseling, now in its second edition, and has other publications in the areas of stress management, time management, and academic support. Marty has been invited to present at numerous conferences and has taught to a variety of audiences in the United States and abroad. DON PETERS, J.D., is a professor of law and a Trustee Research Fellow at the University of Florida's Levin College of Law where he also directs the Institute for Dispute Resolution. He teaches civil procedure, professional responsibility, and upper- level courses in interviewing, counseling, negotiating, mediating, and advocacy. For many years he directed the Virgil Hawkins Civil Clinics at Florida, supervising student practice in family law matters and mediating small claims cases. Don is currently a visiting professor of law at the Elon University School of Law where he teaches civil procedure. Don uses psychological type with law students in a wide variety of course settings that span their three years of law study. He has published empirical research regarding fundamental lawyering behaviors and articles about experiential education, professional responsibility issues, cross-cultural challenges exporting American approaches to mediation, and the use of psychological type in teaching and learning interviewing and negotiating skills. Don has consulted and taught lawyers, judges, and law students in sixteen countries on