Spring 2022 Course Evaluations

In what way(s) did this course benefit your professional or intellectual development?

Great background and intro to Torts. Helps a lot with tort understanding. Prof. Robertson’s class was stressful with all of the reading, but I think that benefits us, in the end. Although, when I say "all of the reading," I mean the 100+ cases that were assigned throughout a single semester. I certainly have a good view of the scope of the caselaw throughout the country, but at the end of the day, the impact of the "important" cases was minimized because of the needlessly complicated, unimportant cases that have since been overruled and provide us no help on the exam nor bar. Also - "deep pockets theory." I really appreciated his candor and truthfulness about money, especially for lawyers seeking to go into personal injury law. n/a Reasons listed above (: I felt like a lot of my learning was independent based on the readings and maybe I would take a few things away from the lecture but overall reading the casebook and the Glannon supplement was how I learned. I think this course taught be how to find legal information for myself. Understanding of negligence and intentional torts. I thought the readings were helpful. I had to do a lot of independent learning because sometimes the classes were not educating enough for the material expected to be learned The in class discussion of various different situations that could change the outcomes of cases aided in my ability to develop skills such as practical application of the law to a variety of situations (even if some of the hypos were crazy!). It didn’t really. Yes, instead of a traditional class with heavy emphasis on reading and doctrines --> his method approach incorporates it all but focuses more on HOW YOU GET THERE, Super helpful. Torts really got me thinking about how my everyday actions can lead to actionable consequences. I have started to notice torts in my every day life, and that has been very cool to witness and apply my learning to every day life. It was interesting to take a class with closer "real-world" ties than our other doctrinal classes. I appreciated the two additional assignments as a way to further engage with the material and make sure I understood it. Professor Robertson truly taught us how to "think like lawyers". The concepts in torts were pretty straight forward, and intertwined with that was his approach on logic and handling any tort fact patterns the way a lawyer should. That benefitted my professional and intellectual development. The class discussion presented many questions about how the tort law could apply in various

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