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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.

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.

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.

#NotACop wrote: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.

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.

merlin- wrote:

#NotACop wrote: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!