In law school, students are expected to read multiple cases to identify rules that will be applied on exams. Using non-law sources, students will learn how to extract individual rules from multiple articles to create one synthesized rule that can be used to solve new problems.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of the lesson, the student will be able to:
1. Identify factors and elements of the rule in specific cases.
2. Extract the rule from individual cases.
3. Create a synthesized rule using multiple cases.
4. Apply a synthesized rule to new cases to predict an outcome.
Author(s)
Courtney Abbott Hill
Courtney Abbott Hill is the Associate Director of Student Affairs, Academic and Bar Support Programs, at Syracuse University College of Law. Ms. Abbott Hill is responsible for helping law students reach their full academic potential, with an emphasis on the skills needed to be successful on the bar exam. She develops and implements programming focused on academic success for students throughout their career at the College of Law. Ms. Abbott Hill received a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from Nazareth College of Rochester and earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from the College of Law in 2009. After graduation, she served as a Court Attorney with the New York State Appellate Division, Fourth Department, before transitioning to a career focused on law student success as a Regional Director with a national bar review provider.
Associate Director of Student Affairs, Academic and Bar Support ProgramsSyracuse University College of Law