Call it "internalization," "learning by heart," or simply "memorization," it's an important part of law school for those intending to work at their highest levels and earn grades that correspond to those efforts. Commitment of the rules, definitions, exceptions, and other essentials to memory, so that these words, phrases, maxims and even templates for persuasive arguments become an integral part of your legal vocabulary, is required to achieve the liberating degree of instant recall you will need during exams.

Need?

Yes, in order to spend your precious limited exam answering time on the point-scoring activities of analysis and cogent writing, you need to be in a position to spend no appreciable time groping for rules of law. These should flow from your fingertips like water from a spring.

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