Reviews of professor Lahny Silva

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is an engaging professor, obviously passionate about the material. Nonetheless, lectures invariably devolve into policy debates. The law itself is given short shrift. 

Her final exam was absurdly overbroad. The prompt might have been appropriate for a take-home exam, but it was practically impossible to address adequately within 3 hours.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Silva tries to make the lectures engaging, but by the end of the semester we were off track and off topic. She acts like she can't fathom that the students don't understand how to take her exam...but she doesn't explain it. And no, the sample problems she gives are not at all representative of her exam. Overall, never again.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Mediocre prof at best. Prefers to spend class time trying to make examples out of students rather than teach and ends up wasting a lot of students time and money. Doesn't teach how she tests and doesn't explain how to take her final. Tries to project a tough guy attitude and falls way short. Got a good grade, but will never take her classes again.