The Law is a Moving Target

I don't remember this ever happening in undergrad: Today in Advanced Civil Procedure, the professor started off class by saying something like, "I know you had an assignment for today on the syllabus, but two days ago the Supreme Court delivered an opinion that changed a lot of what we learned in chapter six, so we're going to revisit that material instead." Indeed, Perdue v. Kenny pretty much put four or five pages of the textbook into the shredder.

The experience goes to prove something we're told by our professors all the time: we're not really in law school to learn the law. The law changes, so we're always going to have to look that up no matter how well we think we know it. What we're supposed to be learning is the methods of legal research and analysis. Then again, if we don't pick up a little law along the way, we won't get very far on the bar exam. Back to the books.