Hint to Law Professors: Think Goldilocks
Resist the urge to assign too much reading. Resist it!
I know you mean well. Those 17 cases you want us to read for each class are all interesting and precedential. But if you’re going to only discuss 2 of them, and that is what you do each class…here comes the unintended consequence…students will read NO cases.
Sure, we’ll read a commercial outline, scan summaries and headnotes so that we have a clue about the cases, but we won’t invest time where there is little payoff.
Reading assignments need to be “just right.”
On the bright side, I now feel justified not hauling that 1500 page casebook to class.