What Board Game Should You Play Based on Your Favorite Law School Class?

In celebration of the fall season that is loading in . . . slowly, we here at the Law Weekly want to provide you all with new ways of having fun when you’re not at Bar Review. And what better way to enjoy your Friday evening than with a board game session? Law students are notoriously fun at game night: just the right amount of competitive. So in honor of your upcoming board game nights as the days get shorter and the readings get longer, here are some suggestions of what games to partake in depending on your affinity towards a law school course. 

Property 

If you enjoyed the rules of ownership, possession, and transfers, you should join in on a game of Catan. Argue with your family and friends about who gets your wheat and where you get to build a road.  

Torts 

Did you enjoy reading about the harms done to the unreasonable man? Perhaps you’d enjoy the loud buzz of the red alarm in Operations and fixing them right up after that train or boat or car accident.  

Criminal Law  

Clue (Or Cluedo if the Brits have their way with you). Did Professor Plum really have the mens rea or the actus rea to kill Mr. Boddy? It is your mission, should you choose to accept it, it find out what is in the manila envelope.  

Contracts 

Makin’ deals is the name of the game in Diplomacy. Players make alliances, betray them, and then destroy Europe. Henry Kissinger was a fan. Diplomacy was also the first game to be played by mail! So now you can apply the mailbox rule to your hobbies too. Great! 

Antitrust 

Monopoly. Need we say more? Fun fact—initially Monopoly was invented to spread the proposed  tax system of Georgism, the land-tax system invented by Henry George. Nowadays, it’s mostly used to infuriate your extended family.  

Constitutional Law 

Learn all about government in Secret Hitler. Lies, deception, and the original public meaning of the word “fascist.” What else sounds more fun to those strong souls beaming ear to ear during another class on the 14th Amendment?   

Family Law 

You’re born, life’s a *****, and then you die. And at the end, you get to sell your kids to find out if you win. Oh, no, wait, that’s The Game of Life, unless of course you’re a citizen of ancient Rome (where you can sell your kid). Well, either way.  

Legal Research and Writing 

While not quite a board game, Telephone embodies the experience of LRW. What else says legal writing quite like passing down the same information, restated slightly differently, and likely a little incorrectly?