BARBRI Con Law Forum

[#NotACop]

Right now I'm taking Con Law 1, and I was wondering if outlining the BARBRI lectures would be good enough to ace the exam. Last year (I'm an evening student) that's essentially all I did for Civ Pro and I aced it, so I'm hoping to be lazy as hell again and get away with the bare minimum.

[merlin-]

I don't think so. What do you mean by Con Law I? Structure only? If so, I highly doubt it.
Civ Pro from Freer is more useful than Con Law, mostly because of the difference between both classes.

[#NotACop]

So far in Con law 1 we've done judicial powers/limitations, congressional powers/limitations, executive powers/limitations and federalism, which are all on Chemerinsky's lecture. I think the only thing that that we touched on in class that isn't covered is war-time powers. I was hoping the lecture would be good enough because it is only an hour and a half exam with either 1 very long issue spotter or 2 short ones; so I wouldn't have much time to get into answering the hypo with a large amount of detail and I would probably be better off sticking to the analytical structure that chemerinsky gives.

[merlin-]

So far in Con law 1 we've done judicial powers/limitations, congressional powers/limitations, executive powers/limitations and federalism, which are all on Chemerinsky's lecture. I think the only thing that that we touched on in class that isn't covered is war-time powers. I was hoping the lecture would be good enough because it is only an hour and a half exam with either 1 very long issue spotter or 2 short ones; so I wouldn't have much time to get into answering the hypo with a large amount of detail and I would probably be better off sticking to the analytical structure that chemerinsky gives.

No, it's probably not good enough. Likely, you would only have 1 or 2 lectures that are relevant You asked if with his lecture it would be enough to ace, and I would say that with only that much information you wouldn't. Of course, it is possible your curve would make it possible. Con law isn't the same as Freer's Civil Procedure.

I would suggest purchasing his book and reading the relevant portions of the book that match your class's content. Should not take too long.

[AReasonableMan]

It's probably still useful, particularly if you go to a school with a lot of not so qualified students, which is the case with a lot of evening programs.

[#NotACop]

So far in Con law 1 we've done judicial powers/limitations, congressional powers/limitations, executive powers/limitations and federalism, which are all on Chemerinsky's lecture. I think the only thing that that we touched on in class that isn't covered is war-time powers. I was hoping the lecture would be good enough because it is only an hour and a half exam with either 1 very long issue spotter or 2 short ones; so I wouldn't have much time to get into answering the hypo with a large amount of detail and I would probably be better off sticking to the analytical structure that chemerinsky gives.

No, it's probably not good enough. Likely, you would only have 1 or 2 lectures that are relevant You asked if with his lecture it would be enough to ace, and I would say that with only that much information you wouldn't. Of course, it is possible your curve would make it possible. Con law isn't the same as Freer's Civil Procedure.

I would suggest purchasing his book and reading the relevant portions of the book that match your class's content. Should not take too long.

Gotcha, thank you very much!