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Professors at Berkeley Law are, for the most part, “incredible” and “accommodating,” and “even the older professors—who tend to have more traditional styles—impart progressive views and attitudes about the law.” Other students say the school’s professors are “not great,” even “cold”; they say that while “professors are certainly brilliant, they are not good teachers.” While some students praise Berkeley Law’s pass/fail grading system for cutting down on law school’s inherent cutthroat attitude, others lament that “giving 60 percent of the class the same grade (P for ‘pass’) diminishes the incentive for people not to completely check out once they have a job. The grading system is not informative enough. The lowest score in the class gets the same grade as several above-average scores.” Students who describe their professors as “top-notch” say that the faculty “genuinely care[s] about their students and make time to help them with questions both related to the course and issues outside the scope of the class.” Classrooms at Berkeley Law are “awesome and newly renovated” and “after the renovation, [Boalt’s] exterior isn’t amazing, but it is pretty nice.” The resources at a school like Berkeley Law are, as expected, world-class, and the library has research librarians who “are passionate and proud of what they do and look forward to helping students and make themselves available.”
The administration, according to some, “is highly responsive and that might be largely due to the fact that students are incredibly involved in school policy decisions.” Others say, “The administration seems disorganized and not very communicative. I have no idea what to do most of the time.” Some students would like more administrative support when it came to career counseling, particularly “setting up field placements (i.e. externships, study abroad, and [the] UC-DC program). Right now, the process is largely left up to the students.”
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Berkeley, CA 94720-7200