Reviews of professor Bruno Meyerhof Salama

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Salama is an excellent teacher. Perhaps his teaching style has changed as he has gained more experience. As of Summer 2020, he's very considerate and supportive. He answers questions in great detail and doesn't mind going over things again and again until everyone understands. I found Law and Econ pretty easy, but still interesting.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Theres 3 midterms, he drops the lowest one. Midterms are worth 80% of your grade. First midterm had 5 multiple choice questions worth 20 points per question. You missed one question? Youre bumped down to a B. Missed 2? C. No partial credit. And hes stubborn about changing the format even the slightest bit. The way he teaches is so confusing.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Awesome class, probalby the best I took during my time at Cal! Bruno is a fantastic lecturer that takes the time to analyze interesting topics in law & tech & answers questions. Easy grading, 2 term papers (10 pages each), smaller written assignments given by the GSIs, and an in-person oral presentation. Overall, highly recommend this class!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I found Professor Salama's course to be very informative and a useful introduction into an unconventional and thought-provoking analysis of law. The topics he chose to cover were insightful and interesting. He was always available to answer any questions in person or over email. I left the course inspired to learn more about law and economics.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The book is posted online by him for free. Our syllabus said theres 3 tests and one of them get dropped. Quizzes are take home and theyre not graded. Its the first day of class but it seems doable

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Salama was knowledgeable but not good at divulging that knowledge in any digestible way. His quizzes were confusing, had errors, and he often responded rudely to students who found errors in his quizzes or answer keys. Quizzes were as short as 5 multiple choice questions, so missing one question is very costly to your grade.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Do your readings, the grading is fair but I don't find this class to be very easy.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
He has three midterms that are mostly multiple-choice which I don't believe is an accurate way to test students on their knowledge. Very easy class to get an A, but miss one or two questions on the exams and you have a B or a C. He doesn't employ good teaching strategies and was oftentimes rude to students

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The Professor is knowledgeable, but the way the course was structured was so we didn't really need to attend lectures except for the content you were going to write about in your papers. The GSI was chill. 2 papers worth 90% of your grade and participation worth 10%. Lots of deep, philosophical approaches for a law and economics class.