I Became a Law School Genius

Chapter 43

Episode 43

[Lawyer Exam Channel]

[A space to share stories about the lawyer exam and law school life.]

The 'Lawyer Exam Channel' was a small bulletin board attached to an internet community that was famous for covering all sorts of topics.

You might think that real law school students wouldn't use a bulletin board that anyone could access, but surprisingly, quite a lot of them were using it.

'There's no other place to talk about law school or share information.'

Of course, each university had its own community, and within that, there was a bulletin board where you could talk about law school.

However, in reality, where many students went to law schools that were different from their undergraduate programs, not everyone could use their undergraduate community.

In the end, the place where law school students from all over the country gathered was this Lawyer Exam Channel.

[Looking for recommendations for a Civil Law memorization textbook for 3rd year students.]

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[Has the results for the Taejong internship come out?]

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They would share or look for information like this.

[Can you guys please take out the smell of cigarettes when you enter the reading room?]

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They would also express the difficulties that they experienced in law school life.

But the true value of this bulletin board was somewhere else.

[Title: Guys, why is the answer 4 for this multiple-choice question from the 2016 Civil Law exam?]

[Content: The fourth option is, ‘Even if the debtor and the third debtor have mutually rescinded the contract after the notification of the exercise of the creditor's right of subrogation, the effect of that rescission cannot be asserted against the creditor’, right?

But there's a precedent that says that since having the contract rescinded is not a disposition, the disposition prohibition effect doesn't apply, right?]

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A fresh question that had just been posted.

The essence of a law school student was that of a test-taker.

Naturally, the Lawyer Exam Channel also had a strong nature as a community for test-takers.

As if they were trying to live up to their name, various questions related to the lawyer exam were posted on the Lawyer Exam Channel.

Then, mysterious experts would pop out from somewhere and write replies.

[ᄋᄋ(27.615): Are you stupid? That's only the case when there's a default on an obligation.]

[Author(38.64): What does that mean?]

[ᄋᄋ(27.615): Seeing that you don't understand even when I tell you, it seems like you're going to fail the lawyer exam lol, bye]

[Author(38.64): No, wait;]

However, since most of the users were active anonymously, there were many cases where the way they spoke wasn't very polite, and because of that, fights would often break out.

'But, there's no need to be active anonymously.'

There were many people who didn't want to draw attention or be identified, so it was mostly anonymous, but it wasn't forbidden to create an account and be active with a unique nickname.

And for my purpose, I had to draw attention and be identified. As much as possible.

To do that, a name that stood out, even if it was a bit childish, might be better. After thinking for a bit, I started to tap on the keyboard.

[InvincibleSupremeLawGod: In cases where the debtor defaults on an obligation to a third debtor, and the third debtor rescinds the contract, the default itself is a factual act that does not bring about a change in rights. The one who exercised the right to rescind the contract is the third debtor. Therefore, the disposition prohibition effect of the creditor's right of subrogation, which applies to the ‘debtor,’ does not apply.]

[InvincibleSupremeLawGod: On the other hand, in the case of a mutual rescission, since the debtor is disposing of the subrogated claim with their own will, it cannot be asserted against the creditor.]

Since it was a comment that a law school student, not a layman, would be reading, I didn't explain it in simple terms, but instead, I wrote about the legal principles that were at the root of the precedent.

As expected, the author wasn't completely useless, as they quickly wrote a reply.

[Author(38.64): Oh, I understand now! The issue was whether the debtor themselves had disposed of it, thank you thank you]

That resolved the author's concern.

But that wasn't the end of it.

That was because anyone could see and react to questions and answers on a public bulletin board.

[ᄋᄋ(117.111): The explanation is clean, though?]

[ᄋᄋ(118.235): The explanation was the most expert-like that I've seen recently. I admit it.]

[ᄋᄋ(27.615): But who does he think he is, with the nickname 'God of Law'? So funny.]

[ᄋᄋ(27.615): Did he pass the judicial exam or something? Does he go to Korea University Law School?]

As expected, there were replies that praised the answers, but there were also reactions that were picking a fight over the nickname.

"I had been agonizing over it for three days, but when I heard the explanation from the God of Law, I understood it at once. The nickname is a bit cringey, though."

"I took a question from the professor and asked about it, and it was the first time I understood what it meant. The nickname is a bit cringey, though."

'Just praise or criticize, do one or the other...'

I hadn't thought about it.

The Lawyer Exam Channel was a site that quite a lot of law school students used, so if it became a hot topic there, it was possible that it would be talked about in real life.

Of course, they didn't know that the God of Law was me.

Even so, hearing it in front of me was quite an embarrassing experience.

"InvincibleSupremeLawGod! InvincibleSupremeLawGod!"

"Who could it be? The depth is not normal, maybe it's an active lawyer who has already graduated?"

"Maybe it's someone who passed the judicial exam. The sense for making a nickname looks like an old man."

"Yeah. There's no way someone our age would use a name like that."

'Ah.'

As those guys had said, an old man who was well over thirty was trapped inside of this body.

But even if that was the truth, it still hurt to hear that my sense was old-fashioned to that extent.

'It's unfair. I made it like that on purpose to draw attention.'

As I was swallowing that protest that I couldn't say to anyone, Han Seol, who was running up to me with an excited look, tapped my back.

Don't tell me it's you too.

I asked with a gloomy voice.

"Is InvincibleSupremeLawGod that cringey...?"

"Huh? What's that?"

Han Seol asked back with a puzzled expression.

"...No, it's nothing."

Come to think of it, Han Seol wasn't very familiar with the internet.

She was someone who lived a very busy life, and her parents had managed her strictly since she was little.

Instead of that, Han Seol started to speak.

"Rather than that, look. It's up."

"Up? What?"

"This."

I took the smartphone that Han Seol had handed me.

[Notice Regarding the Preliminary Rounds of the Jaine Moot Court Competition]

'It's here.'

The Jaine Moot Court Competition.

It was a competition where, on a set agenda, they would be divided into the plaintiff and defendant for civil cases, and the prosecution and defense for criminal cases, and would compete by presenting legal arguments as if they were in a real court.

The winners and losers would be decided by the judges who were sitting in the judge's seat.

Since the method was completely different from a typical exam, participating in the competition wasn't necessarily helpful for studying.

Naturally, the people who got high scores on the exam and the people who showed excellent performances in the competition didn't match.

Even so, the Jaine Moot Court Competition was very popular among many students, regardless of their scores.

There was only one reason.

"Park Yoo-seung, you're going to be a prosecutor, right. You're going to participate, right?"

When selecting people for public office, such as prosecutors or court researchers, those who had won the Jaine Moot Court Competition were exempt from the first round of screening.

Since the first round of screening reflected a variety of documents, such as grades and self-introductions, those who were preparing for public office would try to win the Jaine Moot Court Competition to eliminate the uncertainty.

'If you have low grades, it's practically your only chance.'

Moreover, in my case, I was Jang Yong-hwan's protégé.

As he had declared at the beginning of the semester, he wanted his protégés to experience various activities, and he had even offered a reward of writing a recommendation letter for an internship in the prosecution for those who had excellent participation in activities.

'But the points that are given for the Jaine Moot Court Competition are really high.'

The Legal Clinic activities that you had to do all year were 5 points, but the Jaine Moot Court Competition, which would end in two months even if you went from the preliminary rounds to the finals, was 20 points.

If you didn't participate, your recommendation letter would be as good as gone.

Therefore, the answer was set.

"I am..."