As I've made clear in prior postings, I place a pretty high premium on teaching ability. And we know law students love ranking things because it's "prestigious" to categorize and classify; it is, after all, the "law school way."So, pursuant to a tipster's advice, we're pleased to announce our efforts to perpetuate the obsession with rankings by starting our own competition to determine who the "best" law school professor is--based on classroom performance, of course.
Here's how it works: e-mail us or leave us a comment to this posting nominating a professor. Be sure to specify what school the professor teaches at. In a week or two, we'll put everything together and create a poll of some kind. We'll pull the top five professors from that poll into another poll, and will determine--from there--who our readers think should be crowned "Blackbook's Top Law Prof."
Here's your chance to grade your professors...enjoy!
Richard Epstein - NYU Law & U of Chicago Law
ReplyDeletePenn 2L ... I would have to nominate the best 1L Professor --- Tobias Wolffe
ReplyDeleteCary Coglianese. University of Pennsylvania.
ReplyDeletePeter Smith, The George Washington University Law School
ReplyDeleteJoseph Glannon from Suffolk
ReplyDeleteJoshua Dressler-Ohio State
ReplyDeleteEcho Peter Smith
ReplyDeleteJay Tidmarsh - Notre Dame
ReplyDeleteErwin Chemerinsky, UC Irvine
ReplyDeleteCharles DiSalvo WVU Law
ReplyDeleteDavid Rudovsky, University of Pennsylvania
ReplyDeleteDean Maggs, GWU Law
ReplyDeleteSean Murphy, GW Law. And I'd definitely vote against P. Smith...
ReplyDeleteI'm shocked to hear that 10:51. I thought Smith was fantastic, and am terribly upset he didn't teach any courses this year.
ReplyDeleteI guess we'll get a chance to see if most agree with me when this goes to the polls.
10.06- "okay, let's get started."
ReplyDeletePaul Butler--The George Washington University
ReplyDeleteHoward Shelanski, UC-Berkeley
ReplyDeleteProfessor Phillip Genty: Columbia law
ReplyDeleteI nominate Alen Garfield from Widener
ReplyDeleteLarry Cunningham, GW law
ReplyDeleteI'm a bit more of an A.J. Bellia fan, but I can get behind a vote for Jay Tidmarsh.
ReplyDeleteEdit from 10:16 - Jay Tidmarsh from Notre Dame.
ReplyDeleteNoah Feldman -- Harvard
ReplyDeletei 2nd the nomination for Larry Cunningham. you with me?
ReplyDeleteAdd 1 for Prof. Genty -- Columbia
ReplyDeleteUp and Comer- Brian Fitzpatrick, Vandy.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to see we've received several nominations already. Some e-mails have pointed out that this could not possibly be representative or scientific; we realize this. This is intended to be for fun, and we're thrilled to see that many have come out to support their school's professors.
ReplyDeleteTally one for Genty Columbia
ReplyDeleteButler GW
ReplyDeleteNo one from Cornell?
ReplyDeleteNorman Spaulding -- Stanford
ReplyDeleteAaron Twerski - Brooklyn
ReplyDeleteHenderson and Alexander - Cornell
ReplyDeleteTroy McKenzie - NYU
ReplyDeleteMaggs - GW. Most organized way of teaching a traditionally complex subject ever imaginable
ReplyDeleteTroy McKenzie
ReplyDeleteTobias Wolffe, Penn
ReplyDeleteThat this will not be "scientific" is really understating the matter. It will be 100% pointless, because people can only vote for professors they've had, and each of us attends only one or at most two schools.
ReplyDelete@ 7:12--
ReplyDeleteI understand your point, and agree that we will not be able to draw any substantive conclusions about who the best professors are based on the results. However, I disagree that this "will be 100% pointless." This is supposed to be for fun, and has already (and will continue to) draw people to vote for their favorite professors. If nothing else, it'll acknowledge what a great job these professors have done in inspiring their students--if only on an individual level.
You tell them craig! It makes no sense that you should have to defend this to people. Only law students would be dismissive enough to question something like this for not being official enough when its' obviously not supposed t obe.
ReplyDeleteI haven't nominated yet, but I promise I will soon.
Neal Katyal @ Georgetown
ReplyDeleteNeal Katyal no longer teaches at G-town...right?
ReplyDeleteHe's w/ gov't now (Katyal)
ReplyDeleteArt Miller, HLS
ReplyDelete9:41..Miller's at NYU
ReplyDeleteYou guys are all voting for the most famous professors..lol
ReplyDeleteDean Lawrence ;)
ReplyDeleteLarry Cunningham from GW!! I think so!
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