1) My Winter 1998 Torts I course did not include cases, so the exams from that year did not include cases.

2) I have four purposes in having you read cases:

a) to teach you the elements of the torts - the black letter law;

b) to teach you how tort law works with real facts;

c) to teach you what legal issues come up in tort law; and

d) to introduce you to the tort law of Missouri, because tort law is a uniquely state law creature

3) I give exams for three reasons:

a) law schools run on grades and I have to produce them somehow;

b) exams tell me what is working and not working in the course; and

c) exams give me a chance to force you to focus on learning the material.

4) How to prepare for an exam in this course (good for Tort I only):

a) do all the reading;

b) study your notes on what we have discussed in class and what came out of the discussion of the cases that was not in the study guides;

c) make sure you know all case names and the major parties in the full text cases we read as supplements to the book (the cases on my WWW sites in the torts section);

d) using the study guides, go through the cases and make sure you can answer all the study guide questions that are relevant to legal issues - you do not need to know every detail, but you need to understand what happened in the case and it's legal significance; and

e) do not worry about most of the case names for cases discussed in the book, unless we use them as a shorthand for some legal theory, such as the T. J. Hooper;

5) This is not an essay exam. I do not worship at the alter of IRAC.