Three Years of Hell to Become the Devil: First Study Group Session

So we held our first study group session. One thing they tell you here is that 'study groups will form organically,' and that's certainly the truth: ours seems to have formed via the rules of propinquity. This has some huge advantages.

First off, the study session is always preceeded by a Sunday dinner, cooked communally in our (newly cleaned) kitchen. I seem to be blessed to live with three stellar cooks, which will make up for my more journeyman efforts. Tonight, for instance, was salmon, broccoli, and new potatoes, with a garlic theme. OK, none of our breath would have passed muster, and my room (our impromptu dining room) smells like a pizzeria, but the food was worth it.

This meeting we basically went through some questions and established a pattern for the study group. (Yes, this is a Letter to Wormwood--you JD2B's can follow to see how well this works.) Before every meeting I'm to compile a list of questions we've had over our weekly classes, organize them into discussion sessions, and make an agenda.

Similarly, we've got a Civ Pro project lined up: we're going to make a flowchart of a lawsuit linking all the rules of federal procedure and relevant cases. For those of you linking from Martin's MBA Experience, yes, it will be a modified IDEF chart. People in the Business School can just think we've gone mad.

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IDEF? You really are losing the plot you poor man. M

Posted by: martin | September 22, 2003 9:10 AM

You may want to start with the last chapter of Glannon's "The rules in action" - it has all the documents of a case (pretrial on) with anotations of the rules that apply to each section. It's not exactly a flow chart, but it's close.

Posted by: Debs | September 22, 2003 10:42 PM

Do they still start with Pennoyer v Neff?

Posted by: Robert Schwartz | October 1, 2003 10:16 AM

Nope. Our Civ Pro class started with Walker v. City of Birmingham, oddly enough.

Posted by: A. Rickey | October 1, 2003 10:19 AM