Yes the Socratic method can be used to haze. It can be quite comical when it's not you who's being put through it. Are you a 1L? By 2L (and definitely) 3L year we couldn't care less about a prof calling on us...whether we had read or not. We went with the flow. At 2L and 3L level, most don't even bother asking about the facts so as long as you have an understanding generally, you can go with the flow in answering. Heck at my school it probably didn't matter whether you had read the case or not b/c the question never had anything to do with what was in front of you in the book. It was usually pretty abstract and high-level.
ETA: Not encouraging triflingness or the non-pursuit of academic success. Our grades still came out ok. I think that we had just mastered starting with the end in mind...the final is all that matters. Once you realize that, it's over. Heck, I would pull the old finals and old outlines the first day of class sometimes and spend my whole semester reading and/or reviewing with the final in mind (instead of the other way around). But yes, I said all of the time that 1L year was nothing but a haze. Stay strong.
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In graduate school--OH do they haze for Ph.D.'s...
Don't get me started on J.D.'s!!! I wish that I shove the Socratic method up some of these pompous professors' asses!
Oh, and don't get me started on what how of these professors' feel about having blacks in their classrooms (even though there may only be 3 out of 100 in the class!)!
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