Legal Quandary

Just Out of Curiosity

Does anyone have any experience taking a class from a professor who authored or co-authored the text? Better? Worse? More or less nitpicky? Doesn't matter?

Our Con-Law professor was purportedly writing a text and inflicted it on shared it with us, but that doesn't so much count.

We also had a prof at TVPNU who was, for many years, *the* expert on Property law. So much so that the Property book I used (not in his class, thankfully) would refer to him on about every other page. But he had a reputation for being the worst 1L professor out there. And for giving bad grades to boot. The administration finally "strongly encouraged him to retire," and I heard that he cried openly on the last day of class.

They kept an office for him (after all - he was a legal legend.) Last I heard, he was still showing up to school every day last year.

posted by Legal Quandary at 22:00