Spring 2022 Course Evaluations

What aspect(s) of the course or instruction could be improved?

More clarity with definitions and exactly what the Professor wants us to know. There was confusion when leaning on the Glannon guide for key terms and what Professor Robertson wanted us to know. writing down clear guidelines for assignments, providing concrete definitions of terms Prof. Robinson is a brilliant legal scholar. However, it is difficult interacting with him in the classroom given his hearing issues. Many of us feel that there are significant gaps in our knowledge of Torts, despite Prof. Robinson’s best efforts. Faster! lot of unnecessary repetition. There are some cases that we glossed over and others that we spent days on so I guess a little more consistency. The written assignments could be a little more tailored as they are not difficult but rather tedious considering by the time you hand the information in we have already covered it in depth. Less focus on individual cases and more on how the rules from each tie together and fit into the law. This was a very difficult class to learn from. Professor Robertson explained topics in a very confusing way and often did not provide clear definitions. There was also no clear responses given to any questions throughout class. Furthermore, at points, Professor Robertson and the TA were teaching different rules/material which led to further confusion. Although Professor Robertson was helpful in office hours/one on one after class, following class lecture/ discussion was confusing and hard to understand the points he was making. I feel as though I taught myself a lot of torts this year through the book in which Professor Robertson sometimes contradicted the rules from the book for rules that I believe are outdated. Overall, it was a very difficult class to learn from and led to a lot of confusion and difficulty in learning. First of all, a syllabus that clearly states what cases have to be read is key. Unfortunately, he barely had one. And the one that we have was based on the old version of our casebook. As much as the professor is a nice person, he is not an effective teacher. We spent two months on intentional torts and one month on negligence, rushing into one of the most important subject of torts. We have three classes left and we are at defenses of negligence and we did not talk about duty and damages yet, and we never will. This is unreasonable. Unfortunately, when asked question, the professor is not able to answer because he cannot hear very well. Asking questions in a learning environment is fundamental, and if it cannot be effectively in class, well, something does not work. The professor is really disorganized and does not provide an effective chain of connection between topics. Professor Robertson is clearly a nice and intelligent man BUT he should not be allowed to teach courses anymore. I honestly believe he does not have the mental or physical capability to teach classes anymore, especially a core course like Torts. All semester he rambled every class, he often got confused, he was not reachable by email, his TA was terrible/unhelpful, and he never

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