second-to-last outline of 1L

Edie outline is done! Not a moment too soon. Two days in between exams is simply not enough time to prepare, particularly when you haven't even finished outlining for the upcoming exam until one of the two days has already elapsed.

The beast is 42 pages long, which I think is a new record for me. Much of it is policy. Most of it is probably useless on the exam. Still, as with all of my big honking huge outlines, I'll be glad I included all the obscure policy butterfat should the need arise to cite to it.

Problem is, I still don't feel as though I actually know the law enough to issue-spot.

No one seems to. Rather, everyone knows the basic black-letter law -- of which there isn't really very much -- just enough to worry about where Professor Edie is going to go with it. He's such a sweet guy, such a clear professor, with no overweening political agenda and an apparently genuine interest in actually teaching us something. He also has managed to earn the sobriquet "The Killer" due both to the reputed difficulty of his exams and the documented harshness of his grading. Between the astronomical number of class-hours we whiled away in rambling policy discussions (and, I'll confess, games of Snood), and the paucity of complex hardcore rules to play with, no one's quite sure how this exam is going to bludgeon us all to pulp. But we're nervous nonetheless.

Tomorrow, which will be spent entirely on study group and practice exams, will hopefully help.

thus spake /jca @ May 6, 2003 11:26 PM