How to study for your law school finals....charts style

Due to the volume of people who happen upon my blawg while searching for law school charts, I decided I would give a brief tutorial as to how I used to create my charts for law school finals, as well as show you the style in which I drafted them. You're going to have to click these images in order to see the larger size, but it should be suitably ginormous when you do.

If you have ANY questions, please feel free to comment or email me at ms.dr.juris@gmail.com for more information.

The power of a flowchart....

Something I've learned through my (limited) experience with the study of law is that, ultimately, you're going in a big circle. Generally, my first assessments are typically right, although it's not for the right reasons. While this is okay in undergrad, it doesn't carry over really well on law school exams, because you are supposed to actually support your argument with a rational foundation (although this seems to be in short supply all around). So typically, my thought process goes something like this:

...............................YEAH................


As you can see, it's an arduous process. It would probably save a lot of time, energy, and hair if I did this instead: