I have discovered that learning in a class-room environment can be superficial and meaningless. In order to truly learn something, you’ve gotta get out there and experience things for yourself. So I am now going to share with you how I personally prepare for my classes:

Family Law I: Go out and get married to someone with more money than you, then get divorced.

Family Law II: Before you quit your marriage ensure to have two children. Then flee with one child to another jurisdiction, while simultaneously ducking out on the child support payments to the other.

Commercial Relationships: Buy 100 (insert thing) and try to sell them in the University Tunnel.

Criminal Procedure: Get 12 pints in you. Then drive around awhile.

Advanced Crim: When the cop pulls you over and asks to breathalyze you slap him. Hard.

Sentencing: Then argue that the responsibility I owe to my many children should lessen my sentence.

Law and Psychiatry: And that all that responsibility has made me crazy.

 

Debtor-Creditor: Borrow $50,000 from RBC to go to law school and worry about how you will pay it back later. Way later.

Intellectual Propery: Go download anything from the internet and actually read the little “I agree” agreement.

Law and Culture: See a John Grisham book-turned movie. Then write down three lawyer jokes. Done.

Insurance Law: Go out and buy some house insurance. Then burn that mother down.

Municiple Law: Play Sim City; you get to build industrial, commercial, residential areas and even airports! I’m still waiting for Professor Hoehn to get to the Chapter about Bowser attacking your city. Also, if you pause the final exam and press “B, A, B, A, Select, Start” then you get unlimited money….which is pretty sweet

Professional Responsibility: Sleep with a Prof, they will definitely tell you how much trouble it could get them in.

Tax I: Claim any condoms used as a “business expense” (Pre-req: Prof Resp)

Law 418.3.2…. Sexual Assault: do NOT take this course….. totally not worth it.

ADR: Flip a coin. Or else hug someone

Multi Party DR: Make that a group hug

Immigration Law: Smuggle a truck full of Americans into Canada.

Labour Law: Make the Americans work work in your Walmart.

Environmental Law: Instead of using your bathroom, try your neighbor’s yard. Then see what happens.

Agricultural Law: Go buy a cow. Let him out to 'pasture' in your neighbour's lawn. Also milk cow in your neighbour's garage. That'll teach him to flaunt his wealth by owning a Chevy Nova.

Secured Financing: Go buy something else and tell them if you miss a payment you will give them your cow.

Remedies: Miss a payment then don’t give him the cow, then see what happens.

Wills: Get a piece of paper, write down “I give all my stuff to Shane Wagner when I die”. Congrats,. You now have a binding holgraphic will.

Human Rights: Find something that makes you different, pick a fight. If/when you lose, you have just witnessed a hate crime.

International Law: Go to another country. Repeat the above.