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ID DH Juris study plan

ID DH Juris · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Civil Law

  • Map the full Civil Law syllabus into a one-page outline covering obligations, contracts, property, family, and successions, weighting each subtopic by its likely exam share.

  • Draft a comparison table distinguishing the main contract-formation requirements (consent, capacity, object, cause) and note the practical consequence of each defect.

  • Solve 20 contract-formation questions under timed conditions and log every error with the rule that was missed.

  • Write a 300-word plain-language summary of how nullity, rescission, and unenforceability differ in Civil Law.

Your checkpoint

A one-page Civil Law syllabus map plus an error log of 20 timed contract questions with the governing rule cited for each mistake.

Week 2

Civil Law

  • Build a decision tree for the classification of obligations (conditional, alternative, joint and several, divisible and indivisible) and test it against 15 hypotheticals.

  • Compare the rules on performance, tender, and mora, and draft a checklist a practitioner could use to prove default.

  • Analyze the main extinction-of-obligations modes, especially payment, set-off, and novation, and note how each affects third parties.

  • Draft full answers to two fact patterns on breach and damages, keeping each under exam time limits.

Your checkpoint

A one-page obligations decision tree plus two timed fact-pattern answers on breach and damages, self-graded against a written rubric.

Week 3

Civil Law

  • Outline the core rules of property law: ownership, possession, usufruct, servitudes, and the modes of acquiring ownership.

  • Summarize family law essentials, including marital property regimes, separation, and filiation, in a two-page schematic.

  • Trace the intestate succession order and the rules on legitime and compulsory heirs using one worked example with numbers.

  • Complete 25 mixed Civil Law questions and score at least 70 percent before moving on.

Your checkpoint

A two-page family and succession schematic with one fully worked legitime computation, plus a timed 25-question mixed set scored and reviewed.

Week 4

Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure

  • Map Criminal Law into general principles (legality, culpability, stages of execution, participation) and specific offenses by category.

  • Build a table of the key elements of the most heavily tested offenses, with one distinguishing element per row.

  • Draft answers to three hypotheticals requiring classification of the offense and identification of aggravating or mitigating circumstances.

  • Write a one-page explanation of how conspiracy, proposal, and the stages of execution change liability.

Your checkpoint

An elements table covering at least 20 offenses plus three timed hypothetical answers graded against a self-written rubric.

Week 5

Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure

  • Outline Criminal Procedure from arrest through trial, noting the constitutional and statutory basis of each step.

  • Summarize the rules on warrantless arrest, search and seizure, bail, and arraignment in a one-page flow chart.

  • Compare the remedies available for procedural violations (suppression, exclusion, habeas corpus) and note when each applies.

  • Complete 20 mixed Criminal Law and Procedure questions under timed conditions.

Your checkpoint

A one-page criminal procedure flow chart with the legal basis cited at each step, plus a timed 20-question set scored and corrected.

Week 6

Constitutional and Administrative Law & Commercial and Corporate Law

  • Outline Constitutional Law structure: separation of powers, the bill of rights, judicial review, and the hierarchy of norms.

  • Summarize Administrative Law essentials, including administrative agencies, rule-making, adjudication, and judicial review of administrative acts.

  • Map Commercial Law topics (corporation code, negotiable instruments, secured transactions) into a one-page outline with the most tested rules flagged.

  • Draft one short answer each for a constitutional and a corporate-law fact pattern.

Your checkpoint

Two one-page outlines (Constitutional/Administrative and Commercial/Corporate) plus two timed short answers, one per domain.

Week 7

Civil Procedure and Evidence & Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility

  • Outline Civil Procedure from jurisdiction and venue through pleadings, pre-trial, trial, judgment, and appeal.

  • Summarize the rules of evidence, focusing on admissibility, burden of proof, and the main exclusionary rules.

  • Draft a one-page professional responsibility checklist covering conflicts of interest, confidentiality, fees, and candor to the court.

  • Complete 15 mixed Procedure and Ethics questions and review every explanation.

Your checkpoint

A procedure-and-evidence one-pager plus an ethics checklist, and a timed 15-question set with all errors corrected in writing.

Week 8

Legal Research, Writing and Analytical Reasoning & Civil Law & Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure

  • Practice issue-spotting on four unseen fact patterns, writing only the outline of issues and rules within 15 minutes each.

  • Take two full-length mixed mock exams under real time limits and score them against the official weighting.

  • Re-review the error logs from weeks 1 to 7 and rewrite the three weakest rules in your own words.

  • Build a final one-page 'last look' sheet covering the highest-yield rules across all seven domains.

Your checkpoint

Two scored full-length mock exams with a written error analysis, plus a one-page high-yield 'last look' review sheet.

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 65 percent on a 25-question Civil Law set drawn from obligations and contracts, with every missed rule logged.

Week 4: Score at least 70 percent on a 30-question set mixing Civil Law and Criminal Law, and confirm the elements table covers at least 20 offenses.

Week 6: Score at least 70 percent on a 30-question set spanning Constitutional, Administrative, Commercial, and Corporate Law.

Week 8: Score at least 75 percent on each of two full-length mixed mocks, with no domain below 60 percent, and submit the completed 'last look' sheet.