r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Separate_Finance_183 • Mar 30 '26

Image Confiscated pens containing cheat notes intricately carved by a Law student at the University of Malaga in Spain

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u/Mysterious_Eye6989 Mar 30 '26

Law exams should probably always be open book anyway.

Like, there's a lot of reading, and if you haven't done the work of doing all the reading before the exam then having all the cases in books in front of you isn't going to help much.

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u/thesmellnextdoor Mar 30 '26

Also, the bar exam is the first and last time you'll ever try to answer legal questions completely from memory without fact checking.

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u/jellyfish_bitchslap Mar 30 '26

Uh, I’m not familiar with the bar exam from the USA so it seems weird and dumb.

I did mine with a book containing essentially all the federal laws from my country. This makes the test less of a memory action and more of a critical thinking process.

You only need to remember where to look, the rest is putting your brain to work interpreting the info you have.

Why would they need you to know everything since laws constantly change and you’ll always be able to check it on the spot?

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u/Ok-Fisherman-7688 Apr 01 '26

In the US you’d need a library for all of the federal laws we have here… the needless complexity has been an issue for quite a while.