Sorry that I might have sounded like such a tool in my post but I was trying to ask whether I needed to keep my outlines and such along with my supplements while I studied for second semester. In other words, how cumulative is the second semester? Will it be imperative that I use the first semester information to study effectively during the second?
If you have two-semester courses (e.g., civpro over two semesters), it might be useful to have the previous semester's notes handy at a few points. Keeping them in your file cabinet will be just fine. You might want to keep your outline for that course on your computer as well so that you can reference it if something comes up in class. But seriously, if you don't remember, it won't be a big deal. Most of the time when professors cross-reference your courses or refer back to your previous semester, it will be a kind of idle question like "Does anyone remember another case we read last semester where Rehnquist made a similar argument?" or "Does this sound familiar from your reading of
Pennoyer?"
If you have conlaw first year and learned the structural stuff first semester, that will be helpful in many of your other classes. Otherwise, most of what you learn 1L is how to read cases and stuff and the specific information is not all that important.
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