How to use/study the hypotheticals from class/casebooks?
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 10:57 am
Hey guys I'm a 1L. When the professors and casebooks give hypotheticals in class that seem to have no correct answers, how should I use them for practice? I feel like there are always limitless arguments for each side, and I never exhaust the possibilities in my head or in my notes. I've been using rules and policy considerations from the cases I've been briefing as support to both sides of each argument, but how do I know if I have a good grasp of each side's argument? How I know if I'm "reaching too far" in my applications of the rules? I feel like I could take hours (like I could write a full length paper several pages long) for each side's argument of each hypothetical I've been given so far, but I feel like there's still a bunch of points I'm not seeing.
How much time should I be dedicating to this? Everything seems so uncertain. Can someone give me a more organized approach to this sort of exercise? I feel scattered and VERY disorganized.
How much time should I be dedicating to this? Everything seems so uncertain. Can someone give me a more organized approach to this sort of exercise? I feel scattered and VERY disorganized.