Visiting Professors
Part of the law school culture is to allow visiting professors, law firm partners and associates, and professors from other departments to teach. This has some obvious advantages: it promotes collaboration among law schools, professors and students; it exposes students to different perspectives and teaching styles; and it gives students a chance to take courses not otherwise taught at BLaw. It also has some obvious disadvantages: you have little warning if the visiting professor is a DB. In our continually shrinking world, we're able to mitigate this somewhat.
I've gotten pretty lucky so far... In particular, M@ssey seems great. In fact, he informed Patrick not 5 seconds ago that the exam format wasn't bargain-able. :)
How have ya'll fared? Any upsides/downsides I've missed?
I've gotten pretty lucky so far... In particular, M@ssey seems great. In fact, he informed Patrick not 5 seconds ago that the exam format wasn't bargain-able. :)
How have ya'll fared? Any upsides/downsides I've missed?
posted by Toney at 2:13 PM
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In my defense, his syllabus says one thing and his mouth says another.
Although, the course description did say take-home exam.
Its unfortunate, but one way or another he was going to disappoint either the Hershs & Toneys or Patricks & Milads.
I'm just happy he disappointed the Milads & Patricks :D
Hersh, while I agree with your point, the lack of consistency between the course syllabus and course description that Patrick takes (valid) issue with is the exact same lack of consistency you make in your post by referring to the second group as "Patricks & Milads" and then "Milads & Patricks".
No its not. Milad & Patrick means the same thing as Patrick & Milad. Take-home doesn't mean the same thing as in-class closed-book.
What are you, some kind of lawyer?
I know of some VPs who are not informed about Boalt's policy re Sub-Ps and/or they are more generous in handing them out then they should be. So, approach with care.
*THAN. Ugh.
When you said 'policy regarding sub-Ps', did you mean '"policy" regarding sub-Ps'?
Yeah, "policy," custom, tradition, willful ignorance of, avoidance at all costs, etc. Same thing.
Just checking...
you spelled "y'all" wrong. -southerner
I had an adjunct who thought that HHs were something to be given only once in a generation (akin to A++). He gave 1 in a 60 person class. Fucker.
6:31 - Apologies. If it's any consolation, my wife (also a Southerner) also yelled at me.
The Patent Litigation = a job. And it's a good class.
Adjuncts/visiting profs need to be schooled in Boalt grading policies. While regular Boalt profs are familiar with our grading system, how it translates into GPA, etc., few visiting profs are. As a result, their policies vary wildly.
Also, visiting profs are bad from a recommendation perspective. It's hard to get a good rec from a visiting prof, and they seem to prefer to help their home school students for clerkships, etc.
M@ssey is teaching!? I'd take Con Law I again if I could (took it w/ Chper) or would have deferred taking it until now if I'd known he'd be teaching it. He is awesome. I hope he still wears bowties.
Worst professor of my life, undergrad or law, was a VP. Tax I, Fall '07, 8:10 AM.
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