TOPIC: Exam Taking Skills, Outlines, and Advice for Law Students

During the week of Oct. 17, 2005, CALI’s Director of Curriculum Development, Deb Quentel, spoke with six law professors about outlines, studying for class, preparing for exams, time management, and how professors grade exams. The conversations were recorded as podcasts. While these podcasts are not intended to take the place of a conversation with your professor, the professors hope that these podcasts give law students additional insight into the exam process.

Several of the professors have graciously offered to field questions from students about the exam process. Please send your questions to Deb Quentel <dquentel@cali.org>. She will forward them to the professors.

Panel 1: Professors Ron Eades, John Farago, Patrick Wiseman
Panel 2: Professors Ron Brown and Joe Grohman
Panel 3: Professor Darryl Wilson

• Click here to download Panel 1 – running time: 21:38 Eades_Farago_Wiseman_exam.mp3

• Click here to download Panel 2 – running time: 12:19 Grohman_BrownExams.mp3

• Click here to download Panel 3 – running time: 11:48 Wilson_exam.mp3

Guests: Professors Ron Brown and Joe Grohman, Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center

Topic: Property Law/Real Estate Law: Real Covenants and Servitudes of Land

Running Time: 13:05

Click here to download the mp3 file:GrohmanBrownCov_2.mp3

Professors Brown and Grohman, authors of several CALI lessons on covenants, give students a framework to approach studying the material and offer real-life applications of the doctrines. They also discuss the interrelatedness of the law and explain why it’s an artificial distinction (and one that complicates learning) to study property issues separate from civil procedure issues, for example.

Related lessons are:

• Covenants, Equitable Servitudes and Restrictions 1: Creation
• Covenants, Equitable Servitudes and Restrictions 2: Determining the Validity and Scope
• Covenants, Equitable Servitudes and Restrictions 3: Who Has the Right to Enforce Covenants and Equitable Servitudes?
• Covenants, Equitable Servitudes and Restrictions 4: Against Whom May One Enforce the Promise?
• Covenants, Equitable Servitudes and Restrictions 5: Defenses to Enforcement

Guest: Prof. Bill Andersen, Judson Falknor Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law

Topic: Constitutional Law: The Dormant Commerce Clause

Running Time: 6:28

Click here to download the podcast. Andersen_Bill_DCC.mp3

Prof. Andersen has written a CALI lesson that provides students with extensive flowcharts designed to aid in learning the analytical framework necessary for understanding the Dormant Commerce Clause. In this podcast, Prof. Andersen gives an overview of the Dormant Commerce Clause, including a brief discussion of the June 2005 U.S. Supreme Court Gonzales decision, concerning states regulation of medical marijuana. He also offers tips for tackling this topic and explains the best way to use his related lesson.