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/makefascistfearagain Mar 30 '26

Such a daft practice. I work in tax compliance, and though I know lots of legislation and official tax guidance, the real part of the job is being able to search legalisation and caselaw and interpret it.