Outlines
It has been probably over a year since I posted. I promise that I did not abandon the blog…I was just busy with, you know, law school. I’ve seen some people out there with the time and energy to blog and do law school simultaneously but I am not one of those people. After a full day of reading and writing the last think on my mind was writing about my day spend reading and writing.
Anyway, my efforts paid off and I ended up in the top 10% and on law review — probably the two most important measures of law school success. Since I did well I want to share the wealth. There were so many assets out on the internet that I used during the year that I feel like it is necessary for me to give back to the community.
Each outline is the final version that I used during my exams. I also had other outlines too but those are probably not the most useful. Generally, I would make a huge outline for each class. Then a month before exams I would rewrite each outline while simultaneously condensing the materials. Once my short outline was complete I would begin to shorten it even more by removing stuff that I didn’t find coming up on practice exams. I was better at this in some classes than others but the general idea was to try and get the outline down to the shortest possible form.
You will find that I put the grade I revived in each class in the outlines. I did this not to brag or anything stupid like that. I decided to do this so you have some idea of what your looking at and if you can trust it. I wouldn’t trust my outlines 100% if I were you but my guess is they are probably more trustworthy than someone who didn’t do so well. During the school year I was always annoyed when people would post their outlines but not how well they did. I wanted to know I was getting something I could trust.
There are a few suspect outlines that I am posting. For example, my legislation outline is not that great. This class was not my favorite and there weren’t many practice exams out there that I could use to narrow it down/turn it into an exam tool. You might also wonder about my contracts outline. Even though I didn’t do so hot in the class, I still stand by it. I think my low grade in that class was more a function of the exam (very weird) than my actual knowledge. In fact, contracts was perhaps my favorite class and definitely was the one I spent the most amount of time doing hypos for.
One last note — the outline don’t represent my views or really anyone else’s views. They are really just a form of highly organized notes designed to help me do well on my exams. Since they are notes for school you would be absolutely insane to use them for legal advice.
Torts Exam Outline – Chamallas
Property Exam Outline – Cohen
Legislation Exam Outline – Tokaji
Crim Exam Outline – Federle
Contracts II Short Exam Outline – Cardi
Con Law — National Power and Federalism – Zipkin
Con Law — Indv Rights – Zipkin
Civ Pro – Fairman
October 6, 2011 at 4:45 pm
Hey there, just wanted to thank you for your Torts outline, I’m taking Chamallas this semester and so far I’ve found it incredibly helpful in crafting my own. Did you focus on negligence exxclusively? Or did you simply think that was the only topic worth outlining?
October 6, 2011 at 9:23 pm
Glad I could help you. Professor Chamallas really was a great professor, so you are lucky to have her. Regarding negligence, we did negligence almost exclusively up until the last week or two of the semester and then did intentional torts. I had a separate outline for this because I had learned intentional torts before the semester to do practice exams with, so really I didn’t need it. But I put it in the back of my outline for reference just in case.
Another **very important** note: you probably noticed that the “reproductive rights” section was incomplete. I did actually outline this area but I added it to the end of my outline, just for reference, because I didn’t think it would be on the exam. I tell you this because I was so wrong…If I remember correctly, there was at least one part of a question devoted to the subject.
I will go ahead and post the parts of the outline I left off for you. Good luck.