Comps

Carrie here - I am in the process of studying for comps, so I am passing on info to you for your reference during your second year:

HISTORY COMP & CONTENT COMP When you start studying for your history & content comp look for researchers in your field, once you have them, study them this way - I wish I would have done it:

1. use ERIC to search their name 2. click on full text results only 3. sort by ascending date (oldest shows up first)

This search will pull up the authors work from old to new and you can scroll the titles to get a gist of their line of research, then click on articles that are good for your purposes. This really has helped me as I do my comp revisions. I have found that the seminal articles (even if they are old) are in full text. If you feel like you are missing stuff, you can unclick on that option and see if you can find extra stuff that way.

Also, Jackie likes this website for case law:  http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com