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Rashmi started teaching the first year property course in Fall of 2003. Please post your thoughts regarding the course and the quality of instruction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Rashmi is an extremely brilliant person, and the course is very challenging. There's quite a lot of reading, but that's standard for a Property course. On the down side, there's an awful lot of public policy and theoretical discussion, and the Q & A sessions go on forever, too long IMHO. Also, beware of the chalk board! EVERYTHING anyone says gets written on the board. Even if a comment from a student was absolutely ridiculous (and wrong), it went up on the board as if it was black letter law. Don't think it's right just because it's up on the board. On the up side, Rashmi is the nicest person, and she's always available and ready to help. All in all, I think the course could (and will) improve as Rashmi gets more experience teaching a first year course, and I heartily recommend this course to anyone looking for a challenging, fun, interesting time.


This class was an interesting introduction to property, but an even more excellent introduction to the way that policy and law intersects and ways to make strong policy arguments. That said, class discussion was often frustrating since Rashmi does not rein people enough. At times It was difficult to sort through some of the ridiculous, irrelevant or wrong things that people say. But, I completely agree with the previous comment - she is very approachable and will likely improve at leading discussion in the future.


the class was interesting, and very demanding. rashmi is a brilliant teacher of property and pushes you to find your own meaning within the law. unfortunately. as a first year student i need to know what is going to be on the exam not how i can save the world through changing property law. the pfc's were not well defined and i often left class unsure what the right answers were. although thinking about my role as a lawyer is important it should happen once i learn the basics. remember we are new at this.


way too much legal idealism and way too little substantive law


I LOVED Rashmi's class. Yes, there were times that people talked far too long and far too often. But, I disagree wholeheartedly with the opinion that we didn't get enough substantive law. I felt there was an excellent interweaving of policy (apparently anything you don't get in a BarBri? review is now considered policy, huh), real world, and black letter law. Viewing property as potential capital was extremely interesting. If I just wanted black letter law I would have gone to an inferior school.


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