Jurisprudence: Theory and Context by Brian Bix, mandatory for any NLU student. That's what will set you apart intellectually from the GLC/LawFac types who just keep interning throughout their course.
Apart from your course material, which I'm assuming, will keep you very busy, read Glanville Williams' Learning the Law, it helped me a lot getting started.
Will confirm later if it was indeed this or some other. Regardless, this too is a very good article that every law student NEEDS TO read.
Besides this, whatever teaches you to write better. Not sure if there's anything that can explain those principles well. Perhaps the book "Plain English for Lawyers", but I don't think that's as necessary in the first year itself.
There was a really good article that I had read in my first year. Can't seem to remember the name of the author; but perhaps it was this:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228205112_Logic_for_Law_Students_How_to_Think_Like_a_Lawyer
Will confirm later if it was indeed this or some other. Regardless, this too is a very good article that every law student NEEDS TO read.
Besides this, whatever teaches you to write better. Not sure if there's anything that can explain those principles well. Perhaps the book "Plain English for Lawyers", but I don't think that's as necessary in the first year itself.