A law prof's notes:

FAQs by law students in class:

- Will it be on the exam?

- Could you repeat what you just said?

- When are your office hours again?

- Why can’t we have an open-book exam?

- Can I bring in my paper one hour late? One day? One week?



FAQs by me in class:

- Do you remember what the court said in (such-and-such a case)?

- Are you saying that you’d like to pass today?

- Are you saying anything at all?

- Are you alive?

- What’s so funny, over there in the back row?



Unususal Qs asked by students in class:

- Do you like us enough to buy us pizza?

- Would you mind if I brought my mom and dad to class?

- What’s a blog?

- Did you see Avenue Q (the New York Broadway show)?

- Can we have wine instead of beer at your party next week (we’re so sick of beer…)?



Unusual Qs asked by me in class (just this week!)(with answers!):

- Okay, okay, you’ll do. – who is a vegetarian? – two out of twenty four.

- Who read the NYTimes today? – one, but I don’t think he read it THAT carefully.

- If you saw a baby on the railroad tracks and an oncoming train, would you save the baby? – depends...

- Why are you waving your hand excitedly? – in support of beer over wine.

- Who remembers what it was like in Berkeley in the late sixties (this is a propos of the brutal murder of Tatiana Tarasoff in 1969, leading to the famous “duty to warn foreseeable victim” court decision)? How old are you all anyway? – not old enough to remember what it was like in Berkeley in the late sixties.