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He's a great in-classroom orator, and can be funny, but he is way more concerned with his own reputation in the community of being the top banana of putting the fear of God in students about his tests, and what he writes in his evaluations, than the actual learning of the subject matter by the students.

Civil Procedure is an intellectual challenge probably regardless of the professor but I thought Subrin did a great job breaking complex issues down to simple concepts anyone could understand. There is a lot of reading (typical of any first year course) and he can be a bit of a dry orator at times but I always felt like I left class understanding what it was we were supposed to understand.

I agree completely with the above and add this advice to all future 1st years: don't worry about "getting it" until at least Thanksgiving. Its the kind of subject that only really makes sense when you have the complete picture.

I would like to counter the comment about him being a dry orator. I think it's great the way he gets so psyched up about some of the geeky distinctions in the doctrine. Makes the otherwise inherently dry material a little livelier and much more interesting.