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Trying to figure out which elective is best for my last semester. Factors:

Common law > statutes;
Many fact-intensive inquiries (i.e. "reasonableness" in torts); and
Quality supplement availability.

What say you, TLS?

This seems like something you need to ask your fellow students who've taken the classes at your school, because a professor could make all the difference.

BigRob wrote:Trying to figure out which class will make it easier to coast through my last semester. Factors:

Least amount of substantive law;
Common law > statutes;
Many fact-intensive inquiries (i.e. "reasonableness" in torts); and
Quality supplement availability.

What say you, TLS?

I took First Amendment, media law, and an IP survey course that included copyright. Copyright concepts were easier for me to memorize because it's all statutory and pretty easy to compartmentalize.

If you prefer common law over statutes, First Amendment is all case law. The problem is there are many modes of analysis and lines of cases within each, because First Amendment includes speech, press, religion, assembly. The public forum doctrine made me want to slit my wrists. So in that sense, there's more substantive law in First Amendment.

One thing you might want to consider is that First Amendment is heavily tested on the MBE. (Copyright is not.) If you master it before you start studying for the bar, you'll save yourself a headache or two.

I appreciate the advice - it makes a lot of sense. I'm definitely leaning toward Copyright, then. Discrete analyses makes me happy (should have included that as a factor in the OP).

P.S. I'm not worried about the bar at all. 95% of first-time test takers from my school passed this year. e.z.p.z.

It depends. My copyright class was the hardest class of my entire law school experience.

rinkrat19 wrote:This seems like something you need to ask your fellow students who've taken the classes at your school, because a professor could make all the difference.

So much this