Professor Biden:
Here's an interesting report on Senator Biden's turn as a professor. It seems he got high marks.
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For a better sense of Biden's ability to perform in anything approaching a serious manner, see this post on his Judiciary years from Powerline.
Now that I have discounted anything positive about Biden, allow me to direct your attention to a much more important issue. Check out
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Can't wait to watch the Kossiacs go wild...
Everyone want to be able to say I had Biden as a prof back in law school. I'm sure he's a good speaker.
I think a senator teaching a class for his or her constituents, anywhere, is a good thing. And moreso, when the focus is on constitutional law. I can't possibly see how people are making disparaging remarks against a person who has been doing this for many years now (twice a year).
I'm not pro-Democrat by any means, but I imagine Biden would be a fun and engaging professor. He seems like a nice guy and he's a relatively good speaker. So long as he knew the subject well I would probably give him high marks too.
(Just curious. I've never seen any numbers before.)
It's a relatively heavy load, as I recall.
And as a Methodist with only passing interest in biology, I agree with him. And I'm entirely pro-choice.
Next.
Biden: Man of Amazing Feelings!
We must have read different articles:
How else do you dehumanize people you're convinced are your enemies?
That's certainly appropriate in the general run of things, but when you have a guest with expert knowledge, it makes sense to take advantage.
“And as a Methodist with only passing interest in biology, I agree with him. And I'm entirely pro-choice.”
Best post of the thread!
And as a biologist with more than passing interest in methodology, I agree with you.
Careful, don't want to cut too much into your bear baiting and cockfighting time...
As for Biden, I can vouch that Jimmy Carter is an engaging Sunday School teacher, although he is a Baptist, which I realize could frighten some people.
Biden's willingness to employ the Federalist Papers alone should win him some props.
I will give him his due when he has earned it (as he has apparently done here) but I am still not planning on voting for him.
At my law school (Vanderbilt), my class readings ranged from twenty to one-hundred pages per class for two or three day per week classes. Forty or fifty pages per class was typical, and the great majority of it was usually case law or, less frequently, statutory law.
In other words, fifty pages per class is on the heavy side of typical in my experience, but only where the class meets two or three times a week. I only had one or two classes that met only once weekly (like Biden's class apparently does), so I couldn't generalize.
I'd tell you what my reading load was, except I never did any reading. Too busy learning to 'think like a lawyer'.
(I think I was assigned, on average, 25-50 pgs. night per class. But that undervalues the reading- for seminars, for example, there was often even more reading. And don't get me started on WQE or article screening for Law Review. If you don't enjoy reading don't go to law school; if you don't enjoy arguing about tedious formatting rules, learning the best way to to cite unpublished cases from Zimbabwe trial courts, late nights, and reading 200 articles by professors that are so jazzed up by this internet thing they fell the need to get hip and cite Wikipedia and myspace- don't join the law review.)
Also: getting work. And finding a gig.
:-)
Really? I'm in the life-sciences and I'm pretty sure life began about 3-4 trillion years ago and has been going on pretty much continuously ever since.
Really? I'm in the life-sciences and I'm pretty sure life began about 3-4 trillion years ago and has been going on pretty much continuously ever since.
When this election is over, I'll try to get you up to speed on what issues are being debate in the contemporary public square.
if you don't enjoy arguing about tedious formatting rules, learning the best way to to cite unpublished cases from Zimbabwe trial courts,
OK. I get your point. But let's get real with the hypotheticals. I mean, what's not to love about formatting research papers on the jurisprudence of southern Africa?
But I'd like to have at least one McCain supporter on this thread make a concession to our wayward, Obamphiliac brethren: I don't agree with Biden on a host of issues. Etc.
But there's no reason to assume that his critics know more about his teaching than do his students.
I don't care for Woodrow Wilson, but he appears to have been a good lecturer. It happens.
That's not entirely fair. About half of them are vilifying opponents they're convinced aren't human.