How to study international law? Forum

[bdm261]

3L here. I absolutely hate this class and wish I never took it. We have an 8-hour take-home exam coming up and I lost interest early on in the course, probably spending most of class time on Reddit starting about mid-September, so I'm pretty much unprepared.

I have all the "Sum & Substance" lecture recordings by Professor Sherry Burr but those are unhelpful and don't cover half of what we learned this semester. Our textbook is "International Law: Norms, Actors, Processes" 2nd Ed. by Runoff, Ratner, and Wippman and it's an awful book. Apparently no outside sources are allowed (not sure how this is enforced on a take-home) and only the book and class discussion (which I zoned out on) is fair game.

So how should I study this topic? I cannot find any helpful supplements or anything that seem to cover what's in this text.

[jbagelboy]

I'm in a similar boat except we have an in class exam. The int'l law class has been all over the place and the textbook is massive. I have no idea how I'm going to write passable exam answers. What a sad waste.