| Topic Name: |
Hastings |
| Message Name: |
Case outlines |
| Date Posted: |
05/01/2000 |
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Excellent posting gurdonark. I for one thank you for your advice.
Now, what exactly is a case outline? :-) |
| Message: |
"excellent posting..."
Thanks for the kind words.
I seem to recall a case outline being that
summary you made of all the cases you already summarized (i.e., outlined). The key challenge in law school is not
memorization, but insightful distillation.
There's a law school saying I like:
if you're not confused by October 1 of
your first year, you should be worried;
if the confusion is not lifted a little by November 1 of your first year, you should also be a bit worried.
I found in my first year that if I ran
50-100 pages ahead of the class in my case reading and outline making, I got a great deal more from each class. With this hindsight, I could have been studying for finals by October 1 if I had been working a little harder the summer before school
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