The Associate Dean teaches second year students in Evidence. Even the President of the University, Dr. John E. Murray Jr., the nationally renowned contracts scholar, teaches a six credit course on Contracts. Every year, I survey our students anonymously on the teaching effectiveness of the faculty, and every year our students rate our faculty at 4 to 5 on a five point scale. You cannot get lost here. The deans and professors will know you from the day you walk in the front door and you will know them.
Classes are small.
Professors are easily accessible to students and spend many hours with them. You can see any of the deans, including me, on a drop-in basis. There are no fences, no class system that separates us from our students. We opened the first summer school for American law students in Beijing, China, which is now in its fifth year. Last year, we opened the first Foreign Trade Ministry-based summer school for American law students in Moscow.