Professors at Colorado's law schools rethink curriculum amid "revolutionary" Supreme Court decisions

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2. The way I studied for my Con Law Ii final was to memorize the headings of the table of contents of the case book.

I already knew the cases, and where they fit into the headings. That allowed me to be able to quickly create an outline, complete with all of the cases, at the start of the test.

That was 39 years ago. At that time, learning the cases was a worthwhile exercise. They were the actual law, and with minor changes, were likely to remain so for generations — if not in perpetuity.

It seems like so much wasted effort, now. Stare decisis is dead; the law is now just what the ideology of 5 members of the Supreme Court dictates.