I had a similar moment in Bankruptcy the other day, but luckily, our school has not banned either laptops or internet in the classroom. I had earlier pointed out that the Bankruptcy Code (and the DGCL, by the way) was available online for free, so before I even had to say that again, the person on whom I had called and who had just admitted not having his paper supplement (and many others, I am told) had gone to the Code online and was now following dutifully and constructively along with the statute.

Long live laptops and internet access in the classroom!

What a great exercise, the DGCL is a good thing to get comfortable with. In some ways equally as important as the cases we spend so much time on.

Either law school has changed, or law students have changed, or both. There was a time when students, upon hearing from their lawprof that a certain book would be their next assignment, would glue themselves to the nearest copy.

The rather slack class attitude that Prof. Rodriguez describes may correlate with the many newly minted lawyers nowadays who behave like they just finished three years of extended day care.

Many statutory supplements are now longer than the casebooks they support. Indeed, some could easily be used as weapons in a law school murder mystery. I find that students don't like lugging them to class unless they are positive that the class session will be very heavy on statutes. Of course, there is a solution--namely, to use the one statutory supplement that remains a lean, mean, fighting machine at less than a pound or so. Modesty forbids me from naming names, of course.