lazy professors

[UnbelievablyTired]

So great when one of your professors decides he/she doesn't have to turn in grades on time.  Or within a month of the deadline.  Don't worry, we don't need our rankings.  We don't need our law review results.  The world is yours. 

[new2law]

I dont start my JD untill january but I saw a lot of that same idea in undergrad. Would you say the teachers are better or worse than undergrad once you start lawschool?

[armyjag]

I don't think they are better or worse.  I just find them to be very different from my experience.  I was pretty conversational with my undergrad profs, but for the most part I avoided ls profs like the plague.  Most of them are very socially awkward people, I found.  Get to know your legal writing prof and 1 substantive prof if it kills you since having 1 who could write a letter for you for transfer/job/whatever is very important and none of your classmates will really expend time on that front.   

[new2law]

Thanks for the information. I was army for awhile and auxillery now(enlisted) but I am curious since I saw your name is armyjag. Are you active,guard,reserve,auxillery? How long you been in? Did you start out enlisted or just sign up as an officer? I wish I had done the officer thing. I probally will in the future.

I don't think they are better or worse.  I just find them to be very different from my experience.  I was pretty conversational with my undergrad profs, but for the most part I avoided ls profs like the plague.  Most of them are very socially awkward people, I found.  Get to know your legal writing prof and 1 substantive prof if it kills you since having 1 who could write a letter for you for transfer/job/whatever is very important and none of your classmates will really expend time on that front.   

[UnbelievablyTired]

Most are better, some are worse :/.  The aura of self-importance, however, is exponentially higher.  The world quite literally revolves around each of them, which seems like it would be rather difficult for the world to manage. 

[new2law]

Which university are you at? Do you think all are that way or just some campuses?

To teach law do you only have to have a JD or do they normally have the post JD masters and doctor of law degrees?
In theory couldn't some of the electives teaches legally only have a bachelors or masters degree if it was in the area that they were teaching?

[ToTransferOrNot]

Most adjuncts only have JDs. It seems to me that the majority of the tenured professors either have LLMs or the Doctor of Law; or they have a JD and a doctorate in some other field (economics, is a common one.) However, that is not universally true- several profs have only JDs.

[new2law]

So in theory if in 2013 I cant find work I can always become a teach at a calbar school? 

Most adjuncts only have JDs. It seems to me that the majority of the tenured professors either have LLMs or the Doctor of Law; or they have a JD and a doctorate in some other field (economics, is a common one.) However, that is not universally true- several profs have only JDs.