It's that time of the year again! The Blackbook Legal Blog is proud to announce that we're hosting our second annual top law professor competition. Last year's competition was a major success with hundreds of different voters from different schools casting their ballot. In the end, Professor Peter Smith of The George Washington University Law School emerged victorious. We hope this year's competition will be as spirited.As a reminder, 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. 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."
*Note that winners from the past year are ineligible to participate. Thus, nominations for Professor Smith will not be accepted in this year's competition.
Bummer. Smith was the best professor I've ever had.
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ReplyDeleteI think even the least of us must see the flaws that make this contest meaningless.
ReplyDeleteI'm going out on a limb and nominating Brian Leiter. I had him as a professor and it seems like he has gotten a bum rap recently on many message boards across the internet. The guy is actually really nice, and tries his best to help his students.
ReplyDeleteSO GO DR. LEITER!
Well, hey Dr. Leiter, didn't know you read student blogs?
ReplyDeleteProfessor John Hasnas from Georgetown Law Center
ReplyDeleteProfessor Andrew Morriss at the University of Illinois College of Law has been by far my favorite law professor thus far. If anybody wants a taste of what he's like, he's currently debating Van Jones on the Economist online regarding government creation of "green jobs."
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The guy is actually really nice, and tries his best to help his students.
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Cohen at Golden Gate
ReplyDeleteGolden Gate is a TTTTTT
ReplyDeleteSomeone did not seriously vote for Brian Leiter?
ReplyDeleteProfessor Michael Sabbath at Mercer University
ReplyDeleteBradley Joondeph, Santa Clara University
ReplyDeleteProfessor Gil Seinfeld at the University of Michigan.
ReplyDeleteProfessor Richard A. Epstein
ReplyDeleteNew York University School of Law
Alfred Yen at Boston College -- he's amazing!
ReplyDeleteNelson Tebbe, Brooklyn Law School.
ReplyDeleteJonathan Zittrain, Harvard Law School
ReplyDeleteLeiter may be nice in person. But he's a smug bully on the internet.
ReplyDeleteOne Mr. Samuel Issacharoff, of course.
ReplyDeleteStephen Smith University of Notre Dame (Stolen from UVA in the last few years.)
ReplyDeleteSeriously, Epstein?! The man may be a brilliant scholar but he is NOT a good professor.
ReplyDeleteI vote Kenji Yoshino (formerly of Yale, currently at NYU).
The guy who nominated Epstein is Leiter.
ReplyDeleteA top law prof and no discussion of Greg Maggs at GW? Let me be the first to nom him...sheesh!
ReplyDeleteBill Rubinstein - Civil Procedure - Harvard Law School
ReplyDeleteA. Benjamin Spencer-- Washington & Lee School of Law
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ReplyDeleteCheers.
Jack Beard at UCLA...hilarious, brilliant, and obsessed with getting us to think about life after law school
ReplyDeleteEric Chaffee - University of Dayton School of Law
ReplyDeleteBill Rubenstein- Harvard Law
ReplyDeleteBarry Friedman, NYU
ReplyDeleteRichard Primus, University of Michigan
ReplyDeleteErnest Smith-
ReplyDeleteUniversity of Texas
Mitch Berman at the university of Texas.
ReplyDeleteEva Hanks @ Cardozo. I just hope to be as vigorous as her when I'm 83. (Seriously, this lady must be caffeinated out of her mind)
ReplyDeleteShani King at the University of Florida
ReplyDeleteBarbara Holden-Smith, Cornell
ReplyDeleteBarbara Holden-Smith, Cornell.
ReplyDeleteBruce Mann, Harvard Law School
ReplyDeleteRoger Schechter at George Washington University Law School.
ReplyDeleteJeffery Schoenblum
ReplyDeleteVanderbilt Law School
Pamela Karlan at Stanford Law School
ReplyDeleteJoshua Dressler, Ohio State University
ReplyDeleteMichael Kaufman, Loyola (Chicago). He has to be the most hysterical professor EVER, and his compassion and interest in his students is unparalleled. Not to mention his Barbri lectures are brilliant.
ReplyDeleteTroy McKenzie, NYU
ReplyDeleteSeconded: Eric Chafee; University of Dayton School of Law!
ReplyDeleteIt's like he remembers how he wished it was taught to him as a law student and made it a reality. Simply awesome.
Eyup. Chaffee. Dayton.
ReplyDeleteEthan J. Leib, Hastings (visiting, Boalt, Columbia)
ReplyDeleteBarry Friedman, NYU
ReplyDeleteAnother for Greg Maggs at GWU
ReplyDeletekathleen sullivan at stanford law
ReplyDeletePaul Marcus, William & Mary
ReplyDeleteBrant Hellwig - University of South Carolina
ReplyDeleteDale Oesterle- THE Ohio State University
ReplyDeleteI've got an enthusiastic second for Gil Seinfeld at Michigan
ReplyDeleteJoel Paul, UC Hastings
ReplyDeleteBruce Mann, Harvard Law.
ReplyDeleteJim Cox - Duke
ReplyDeleteOh definitely Prof. Mann! Bruce Mann - Harvard!
ReplyDeleteTroy McKenzie
ReplyDeleteProfessor Richard Primus, University of Michigan Law School.
ReplyDeleteScott Sundby--W&L
ReplyDeleteNo Penn love on a Penn student blog!?
ReplyDeletePHILIP BOBBITT, Columbia Law School
ReplyDeleteAntonio F. Perez--Catholic Univesity of America, Columbus School of Law
ReplyDeleteJ.J. White, University of Michigan
ReplyDeleteKaren Brown, The George Washington University Law School
ReplyDeleteGlenn Cohen
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Christopher Serkin, Brooklyn Law
ReplyDeleteDick Helmholz, Chicago Law
Spencer Waller, Loyola Chicago
ReplyDeleteEthan Yale, UVA
ReplyDeleteMichael Doran, Georgetown
Nancy B. Rapoport (when she taught at The Ohio State University), now at UNLV
ReplyDeleteMatthew Waxman - Columbia Law School
ReplyDeleteBo Rutledge, formerly of Catholic University and now of Georgia
ReplyDeleteChristopher Serkin, Brooklyn Law School
ReplyDeleteChris Serkin, BLS
ReplyDeleteCatherine Struve -- Penn
ReplyDeleteBrad Smith, Capital University Law School
ReplyDeleteI'll second Scott Sundby at W&L
ReplyDeleteProf. Brian Murchison - Washington & Lee
ReplyDeleteDan Tokaji, Ohio State
ReplyDeleteProf. Linnie Benezech-University of Florida Levin College of Law
ReplyDeleteCatherine Struve at Penn Law
ReplyDeleteLaurence Tribe, Harvard Law School -- the absolute best ever!
ReplyDeleteProfessor Ruthann Robson from the CUNY Law in New York. Not only did she essentially found Queer legal theory, she is a powerhouse on constitutional law issues (she co-authors the con law prof blog) as well. She is also an inspiring professor and invested in student publishing.
ReplyDeleteRay Gallagher, University of Notre Dame Law School
ReplyDeleteThe contest begins, and ends, with Suzanna Sherry at Vanderbilt. She's a fed courts tigress.
ReplyDeleteElizabeth Warren, Harvard Law School.
ReplyDeleteBen Sachs, Harvard Law School.
ReplyDeleteBen Sachs, Harvard Law School.
ReplyDeletePaul Marcus, W&M
ReplyDeleteJody Kraus, UVA
ReplyDeleteChalk one for Leiter.
ReplyDeleteAlice Abreu
ReplyDeleteTemple Law
I would like to second the nomination for
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New York University School of Law
Neil Williams - Loyola Chicago
ReplyDeleteRichard Pugh- University of San Diego
ReplyDeleteKaren Burke- University of San Diego
Charles Tabb - University of Illinois
ReplyDeleteKit Kinports - Penn State
Professor Gil Seinfeld at the University of Michigan. Hands down, the best prof of any I've had in undergrad, grad or law school.
ReplyDeleteTabb one for Chuck Tabb
ReplyDeleteBrian Murchison at W&L and
ReplyDeleteBrian Clarke, also at W&L
I go to BC and Yen is pretty awesome. But, I'm nominating Jim Repetti, he's an amazing professor AND he's a tax guy.
ReplyDeleteCatherine Struve from Penn. She is brilliant, sweet, and an awesome professor!
ReplyDeleteRegarding Struve, not to mention she is H-O-T
ReplyDeleteBrian Murchison at Washington & Lee. He's a stand-up guy with tremendous, genuine empathy for his students. In addition to his full class load (and serving as interim dean), he set aside an astonishing amount of his time to assist students with everything from career development to litigation prep (for a clinic he's no longer formally involved with). He's an apparently-bottomless well of heartfelt avuncular advice. ..All of which I say despite the fact that I got my lowest grade in law school in Murch's Torts class.
ReplyDeleteThat said, Scott Sundby also deserves recognition. As the story goes, he once (2006, or so) showed up to a house party in the middle of the night to personally DD students home while the over-zealous Lexington PD were threatening all inside with public intoxication.
Larry Ward, IOWA
ReplyDeleteBarbara Holden-Smith, Cornell
ReplyDelete2nd Sam Issacharoff
ReplyDeleteJody Kraus left UVA. At UMich now, Columbia Next year. But definitely a kickass prof.
ReplyDeleteMike Cassidy - Boston College Law School
ReplyDeleteEric Talley- Berkeley Law School
ReplyDeleteRichard McAdams, U Chicago Law
ReplyDeleteOmri Ben-Shahar, U Chicago, formerly UMich
ReplyDeleteSusan Rozelle, Stetson
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Alexander Somek, Iowa Law
ReplyDeleteJohn Eason, Tulane University Law School
ReplyDeleteLuize Zubrow- GW Law
ReplyDeleteJim Repetti - BC Law
ReplyDeleteBob Peroni - Texas
ReplyDeleteProfessor Jonathan Harris of the Birmingham Law School in England.
ReplyDeleteXuan-Thao Nguyen at SMU
ReplyDeleteDavid Post, Temple Law School
ReplyDeleteAnthony Bocchino, Temple Law School
ReplyDeleteSecond John Eason, Tulane
ReplyDeleteTHE Deborah Schenk - NYU LLM. She may be small, but damn she packs a punch. You walk out of her class everyday thinking you could serve as tax counsel in negotiating a multi-million dollar transaction...but that's after she's accused you of malpractice twice that same day.
ReplyDeleteThomas McGarity University of Texas
ReplyDeleteSecond Peroni at Texas.
ReplyDeleteRob Nassau, Syracuse
ReplyDeleteinspired many a law student to go into tax law and even has a former student now clerking on the US Tax Court
Dan Ernst, Georgetown Law.
ReplyDeleteI would like to nominate Chris Sagers, professor at Cleveland Marshall School of Law
ReplyDeleteMichael Doran @ Georgetown University Law Center. The man somehow made tax law fun and comprehensible, even for those of us who clearly have no business going into BigLaw.
ReplyDeleteAnother vote for John Eason at Tulane (Tax and Trusts & Estates).
ReplyDeleteProfessor Richard Pierce, The George Washington University Law School
ReplyDeleteRalph Steinhardt (GW Law)
ReplyDeleteDale Oesterle, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
ReplyDeleteMichael Collins, UVA
ReplyDeleteGeorge Geis, UVA
3rding Gregory Maggs (GW Law)
ReplyDeleteBo Rutledge -- University of Georgia
ReplyDeletePeter Lake - Stetson Law
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