Here's the schtick: exams for code-based classes, for example, bankruptcy, should NEVER be closed everything. At the very least you should get to have the frigging code. For Pete's sake, there is no possible way to remember all of the exceptions to the exceptions and whether the qualifying debt limit for secured debt is 900K in change for chapter 13 filings. Seriously. The people who win are the numbskulls who are good at memorizing, not the ones who can find wht they want with the actual language of the code.
Snarl! I'm tired, damnit
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That is honestly shocking, that they wouldn't let you bring the code into the exam. Every code-based exam I've ever had, we at *least* get that huge code text. Wow.
No exam in law school should be closed book. Lawyers don't know anything off the top of their heads. It's always "let me go look that up." Plus, it's not like lawyers are ever going to have to stand over a half-dead corpse with de-fib paddles in hand and have to make a snap decision about what IRC section to refer to...
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