I Became a Law School Genius – 28



I Became a Genius Law School Student Episode 28

What appeared on the screen was a midterm exam question from a few years ago for Constitutional Law I which I had seen before.

[Question 1. Review two or more comparative jurisprudential laws of Korea and Germany regarding fundamental rights under the Constitution and criticize the Constitutional Court precedent below. (200 points)]

“What does everyone think when they see this?”

When I asked a question Lee Haru pretended to vomit.

“Wow. “I would rather choose death.”

“Honestly I don’t know what to do.”

Yoo Taewoon also smiled bitterly.

“Of course the topic of constitutional complaints is in the professor’s lecture. Even though it’s stuck in an inconspicuous corner. “If it’s like this I don’t think it will be enough to memorize the entire lecture plan which is several hundred pages long.”

“Well that’s a valid point.”

I nodded.

The Constitutional Court’s lecture plan made no distinction between important content and what was not.

Someone once asked me why and the answer I got was ‘There’s nothing in what I teach that isn’t important.’

Therefore no one knew what would be connected and how it would appear on the exam.

If you do this you will have to memorize hundreds of pages of lecture notes.

“But as everyone knows that can’t be done.”

What subject takes up the most weight in law studies?

It is civil law.

The reason is simple.

This is because most of the legal disputes that take place in this country are civil cases that can be reduced to ‘that guy won’t pay me the money he’s supposed to pay me.’

Because we fight a lot there are a lot of precedents so there are bound to be a lot of things to memorize and analyze.

The next largest amount is criminal law.

Because the world is always full of people who commit crimes and get caught.

On the other hand the Constitution and administrative law did not occupy a large part in the law of the exam.

From the examinee’s perspective the resource of time is limited.

Naturally you have no choice but to spend a lot of time on the important things and use the remaining time to solve the rest.

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This meant that there was no room for such overinvestment in the Constitution.

“It would be better if we could at least predict the trends in exam questions.”

Hanseol pointed out the problem.

“Then you can pinpoint and prepare for it so the burden will be greatly reduced.”

It was as he said.

This was the biggest difficulty in the exam administered by the Constitutional Court.

No matter how extensive the exam is it is possible to reduce the preparation effort by predicting the questions to be asked.

‘For example like me you read with a focus on the main issues of the bar exam.’

However there was no tendency in the Constitutional Court’s test.

Bar exam? Past exam for bar exam? It is a style that is about 10000 light years away from that kind of thing in the first place.

I didn’t even know what criteria to use to write the content and adjust the strength and weakness.

In the end most students fail to properly prepare for the Constitutional Court exam and give up.

After reading at least once you have no choice but to be satisfied with creating a novel based on memory and luck.

It was an added bonus that the Constitutional Court lost its temper every year claiming that the quality of students’ answers was abysmal.

The study members who shared the awareness of the problem sighed in despair.

“…But.”

I grinned when I saw that.

“Is it really not there? Tendency.”

Everyone raised their heads as if they were surprised.

“uh?”

“What does that mean?”

“Think about it. “What does it mean to have a tendency to ask questions on a test?”

In any test it is a specific individual or group that ultimately creates and presents questions.

So what are they trying to test?

“Of course I will put out ‘what I want to put out’.”

The essence of test preparation is understanding it.

When studying for national exams there is no other reason to focus on past exam questions.

Since the test takers want to submit it there is a high possibility that it will appear so I just prepare for it.

In that case we must assume that the essence of the Constitutional Court’s test is the same.

“If only I could read the subjective standards of what this noble scholar thinks is important. “I can even predict test questions.”

“…Is that possible?”

“cancer. Whenever possible.”

I operate my laptop.

The video projected on the wall changes into a legal information DB (database) site and the Korea University library homepage that every law school student knows.

“…Why a library all of a sudden?”

Han Seol asked.

“Here’s a way to read the criteria. Now what was the keyword in the previous exam? Constitutional petition. history. Comparative law.”

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I replied and entered the same keyword into the search box and pressed enter.

Then.

[Historical development of the Korean-Japanese constitutional petition – Focusing on comparative legal review -]

A paper appeared on the screen.

“…This!”

Yoo Taewoon opened his mouth.

“Hanil-gu? “Is this a paper written by the Constitutional Court?”

Han Seol asked. Han Il-gu was the Constitutional Court’s real name.

“that’s right.”

I nodded.

The same content as the exam questions set by the Constitutional Court is included in the paper written by the Constitutional Court.

What does that mean?

“no way.”

Han Seol widened his eyes.

“You’re saying on the test the topic you studied…?”

“Correct answer.”

It wasn’t just a coincidence.

There was a test question dealing with the right to hold public office so when I searched for it I found a review of case law titled ‘Criticism of the Constitutional Court’s precedents on the protection area of ​​the right to hold public office.’

When there was an issue mentioning Schmitt’s constitutional theory there was a paper titled ‘Analysis of the Yushin Constitution – Focusing on Carl Schmitt’s Sovereign Dictatorship Theory’.

If the library did not find it related writings were found in the legal information database.

When it wasn’t even in the legal information database if you googled it an opinion posted on a website somewhere popped up.

In the end for every previous exam question there was an academic work by the Constitutional Court corresponding to that topic.

At this point I could speak with confidence.

“Constitutional Justice Han Il-gu is taking the exam based on the content he covered in his writings.”

I clapped my hands to get their attention.

“In other words if you look at the Constitutional Court’s writings you can conversely figure out what to put on the exam.”

Even the Constitutional Court cannot raise questions based on concepts that do not fall within the scope of the test.

So all you have to do is extract the concepts and keywords that fall within the scope of the midterm exam and then search them in the law library to find the corresponding materials.

Exam questions must be asked therein.

To get a good grade you had to read not the lecture notes but rather papers or contributions written by the Constitutional Court.

“As expected of you Park Yu-seung! “You found a way!”

Yu Ye-seul made a fuss and made a fuss.

He looked like a new employee giving a desperate reaction to his manager’s joke.

How did this person get to this point?

However the expressions of the other study members remained dark for some reason.

“Uh… Yoo Seung?”

Taewoon Yoo spoke with difficulty.

“I think it was a good idea. Indeed this is your approach of always analyzing the intent of the test taker. but.”

Taewoon Yoo pointed to a list of Constitutional Court writings found in the video.

“Isn’t it a bit… a lot?”

At first glance the number of academic writings tagged with the Constitutional Court’s real name ‘Han Il-gu’ numbered in the hundreds.

[Dualism of existence and justification from the perspective of Han Il-gu Radbruch’s legal ideology]

[Constitutional status in National Assembly member Han Il-gu’s freedom of delegation and political power struggle]

[The development process of subjective public rights examined through Han Il-gu’s German constitutional history]

…

Indeed apart from his dissatisfaction with the Constitutional Court as a law school professor the amount and depth of his research activities as a scholar were truly awe-inspiring.

Yoo Taewoon asked fed up with the list of writings that seemed to never end.

“You want to see all of this…?”

“that’s right. “If things continue like this my belly button might get bigger than my stomach.”

Hanseol also agreed with a voice of concern.

Of course if you limit it to the scope of the midterm exam the amount will be reduced to some extent.

However the task of searching and gathering data itself took a considerable amount of time and what was left after filtering it out was not an easy task.

In the first place each one was a paper or an opinion piece contributed somewhere.

How can one read summarize and study books that are each dozens of pages long?

It was no wonder that I thought it would be better to memorize the entire lecture plan.

“That’s a valid point.”

But I shook my head.

“If only I had to see ‘the whole thing.’”

“…What does that mean?”

I explained to Hanseol.

“Look carefully. “The year in which the previous exam questions were asked and the year in which the writing was published.”

“year? … Ugh!”

“Did you notice?”

Hanseol who was looking back and forth between the writings on the screen and the Constitution I exam questions let out an exclamation.

The year in which the question of ‘subjective public rights’ was asked was 2017. And the paper on the same topic was published in January 2017.

The question about ‘Carl Schmitt’ was raised in 2019 and the related paper was published in December 2018.

The rest of the problems were similar.

The questions on the Constitutional Court’s internal exam were drawn only from works published within one year from the date of the exam no matter how old they were.

“okay. You don’t need to see it all. “The test questions only come from works written within one year.”

If you think about it it was natural.

The Constitutional Court’s tendency to present questions reflects the interests he considers important.

Naturally the more recently researched and written content was the more likely it was that people would still be interested in it.

In fact the Constitutional Court I know did not stick to one academic position but continued to revise its own views through research and discussion.

His theory as a scholar was that holding on to old ideas was nothing more than stubbornness.

There is no reason to create test questions by looking through topics covered in old books leaving aside the latest topics of interest.

“Obviously if this happens the amount of content you have to watch will be significantly reduced but…”

“It’s still a lot.”

Yoo Tae-woon and Han Seol muttered as if they were sorry.

As expected it was difficult to read the papers in their entirety to study for the exam.

I don’t know if it’s civil law but I couldn’t devote that much effort to a constitutional exam where I could only invest a limited amount of time.

But there’s no way I wouldn’t know that.

“I knew that would happen and prepared for it.”

I snapped my fingers.

“It’s time disciple. “Show me that.”

“Yes sir.”

Lee Haru jumped up and switched places with me.

Question marks were floating around on the faces of the study members watching.

“Introducing you. “A masterpiece of this body filled with the wish to earn test scores day by day.”

Lee Haru tapped the laptop and ran a program.

“Name it a search engine ‘Nal-Muk’!”

With a whining sound a program called ‘Nalmuk’ opened two windows.

In the left window concept keywords from the lectures and covering the scope of the midterm exam were lined up in a row.

– Principle of legal reservation

– Trust protection principles

– Constitutional Petition

– Subjective public rights

– Fundamental rights subjectivity

– Carl Schmitt Constitutional Theory

…

“This is a keyword chosen by the teacher. “If you type this here.”

When Haru hit enter a list of writings popped up in the right window.

[The development process of subjective public rights examined through Han Il-gu’s German constitutional history]

[Analysis of Han Il-gu’s Yushin Constitution – Focusing on Carl Schmitt’s theory of sovereign dictatorship]

…

The total number is twelve.

“There are a lot of documents like this that match the keywords.”

There was no need to search for each item one by one to check whether the data was available elsewhere and if not search for it.

The search program created by Lee Ha-ru automatically retrieves the necessary documents from the sea of ​​information with just one click of a button.

‘But even though I set it to select only those related to the latest one-year midterm exam scope there are still twelve.’

Not all law school professors were energetic researchers like the Constitutional Court.

Some professors were scolded by the evaluation committee for failing to publish even two papers in five years.

Certainly the Constitutional Court was a great human being in one sense or another.

To write this much on a limited topic in just one year.

Thanks to this I felt like I was dying from a preparation standpoint.

There are twelve words but if you count the number of pages it would be hundreds of pages.

The study members were looking at the list with expressions of boredom and confusion.

It’s good that it saves you the effort of selecting the material you need to see.

But anyway it was too much of a burden to have to read it all myself and extract the parts I needed to prepare for the exam.

“I wish I had someone to read and summarize it for me.”

“Isn’t that possible? Generative AI is popular these days. If you ask AI wouldn’t it magically organize it for you?”

The conversation went back and forth like a joke.

At that time Seungpil Kim who had been silent intervened.

“That is difficult.”

he explained.

“Generative AI language models are still in their early stages. “You may be able to answer a simple question or summarize a short text but a legal paper is a completely different problem as the vocabulary usage and structural grammar are completely different from everyday texts.”

“You know it very well don’t you?”

“It was a hot issue. “I studied a bit to write a related article.”

Seungpil Kim shrugged his shoulders in response to Taewoon Yoo’s question.

“The meaning will be different from the original text some of the core content will be lost or sentences that do not fit the context will be mixed in. To catch errors you will have to read the paper from the beginning anyway. “So what does it mean?”

What Seungpil Kim said was not wrong.

The setting of ‘In the Law School’ took place a few years before my death.

At this time an early version of the AI ​​language model had just been announced and was causing a stir but it was not powerful enough to completely polish dozens of pages of legal text.

In the future better versions will be released and models that are familiar with legal knowledge will also be developed.

But at this point it was still a long way off.

In order for a program of today’s level to digest the Constitutional Court’s difficult text without error the settings had to be adjusted by an excellent programmer who is comfortable with natural language processing models and fine tuning.

In this day and age there was no way there could be such a person in law school a place where people only read texts their entire lives.

“Is it okay?”

“…?”

[‘The development process of subjective public rights examined through Han Il-gu’s German constitutional history’]

Lee Haru clicked on a paper and the cover appeared on the screen. The number of pages displayed at the bottom is as many as 75.

At that time a notification window appeared.

[Would you like to summarize the material?]

Lee Haru indifferently clicked on the notification window. The moment everyone looked at her with a puzzled expression.

[… in progress… ]

[Completed.]

[Elapsed time: 75/75p -> 5/5p]

In the video on the wall the dozens of pages of thesis were everywhere and there was a five-page summary.