Civil procedure, which was my most feared class at the beginning of the semester, is quickly turning into my favorite class. Granted, the order of that list changes more frequently than Ben and J. Lo's wedding date, but civil procedure has had a good solid run for the past few days, which is more than one can say for poor Ben and Jennifer.
The rise to the top was propelled by Prof. Civ Pro himself. Don't get me wrong; I will still never be late to that class or be unprepared, and I only ask a question if I am very, very sure it is a good question. But he's civil (har, har) when he's pressing for an answer, and, more importantly, I always learn something from the exchanges he has with the students.
Prof. Civ Pro doesn't use a microphone, unlike the other professors. While he's teaching he strides back and forth across the classroom, shaking his fists to emphasize a particularily important point. He doesn't just teach civil procedure, he preaches the gospel of civil procedure. Points that he wants to make are repeated, like the minister testifying before his parishioners. We, his flock, are called to bear witness to the subtlety and beauty of the civil justice system.
My notes sure bear witness to his passion for the subject. I'm not normally given to exclamation points or excessive capitalization, particularly in my own notes, but my notes for this class are littered with both. ("The obligation which is sued upon here arose from activities in the state of WA!!! For those reasons it is FAIR and REASONABLE to require the company to defend in WA.")
I can't say that I ever used exclamation points while in engineering school.
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Sounds like my Tort I Prof....except as he was preaching with such fire he would develop this white foam in the corner of his mouth.....thank goodness I didn't sit in the front row.....LOL
Hmm, must be nice to have a Civ Pro professor who gives you cases involving issues of civil procedure... I like our professor but no one in the class feels they've learned the first thing about procedure. It's apparently going to be a do-it-yourself class.
That's sort of how I feel about my contracts class, to an extent. Luckily it's a year-long course, so we only have 2 hours a week of constracts anyhow this semester. He's entertaining, but I get the strong feeling I'm missing a lot that I'm goign to have to know. I certainly don't feel that way with civ pro!
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