Wondering what's it like to be a law student?
Stacks and piles of endless law articles.
These are not compulsory materials however. But in order to score these are like the antidotes. Staple. They make your answers stronger and louder. And it gives the examiner an impression that you're smart and hardworking. Hence reward you with higher marks. More often than not, they make me go loco before they make me smarter.
Textbooks. No comment.
Inside the textbook. Pages and pages of TEXT. There's a reason why they call it the TEXTbook. NO diagrams. At. All.
Cases and materials. These aren't compulsory either. But they help you understand the cases better. Usually textbooks state cases on their principles of laws only. They rarely state the facts of the case. Even when they do it's only a one liner at most. So in order to understand the case you'll have to refer to these.
What's inside a case and material text? TEXT. Again, NO diagram. FULL text. They don't differ much from a textbook, save for their contents.
The blue textbooks are statutes. The good thing about it is that we don't have to memorise every Act and every piece of legislation, contrary to popular belief. We can bring them into the exam hall and refer to them. With one condition, they must be virgin. That is, strictly no written notes are allowed except for simple highlighting.
These are the few most basic and essential readings that must be done. The same goes for every subject. There are other readings that complement them, but I shall talk about them another time, when I do.
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