Welcome to Word on the Street, our new feature that posts random tips and tidbits about the law school community.
Our first installment is about new professor Richard Storrow (law school bio here), who will be teaching Property and first year seminar.
Word on the street is that he is the highest paid professor in the law school and was hired outside of the union's pay range.
Word also has it that Dean Anderson also extended an offer to his partner, but he turned it down to work at Rutgers.
All this at the objection of faculty members.
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James Garland has been a property and real estate professor for the last year or two at CUNY Law. Garland is a good professor and I found his real estate class extremely helpful in preparing me for the bar exam. He also made a very good argument on why teaching tax law at CUNY Law would serve the public interest. I hope he is not being let go or forced to resign.
Administration, please respond.
Also, I find it strange that adjunct professors bio's are not posted on CUNY Law's website. I think they should be.
Dan, when I spoke with Professor Garland in May, he gave the impression that he's got an ongoing project that is coming to fruition out in California. He'll probably be in CA working on it during early 2009. He also said bringing on a new professor to teach property is a good idea because it can be intellectually stifling to have the same person teaching the same one or two classes without any break. He gave no indication at all that he was being forced out. To round out this hearsay trifecta, he also said he really enjoys the students at CUNY.
As to professor Garland, I don't think it's a plot or anything. I got the impression from somewhere that he was never really supposed to be the permanent property prof (but of course, that's all CUNY hearsay).
That said, I'll be sorry that the classes after us won't have him for that class. I keep having the same conversation with people from other law schools, where I tell them that property was my favorite class and how inspiring it was, and they say "god but it was SO BORING! WTF is up with the rule against perpetuities anyway?"
Plus - the tax class is no longer in the subjunctive: it's on the schedule for next semester. So he's definitely not been forced to resign.
Thanks for the info Liz and Farah.
Farah - Property was your favorite class!? Awesome. And totally different from my experience, which was that property sux!
This is my first comment new professor storrow wish he all the best.
CUNY Law School's list of Performance Goals and Targets for 2007-2008 (available here: http://web.cuny.edu/administration/chancellor/performance-goals.html)
includes among its objectives: "Hire two experienced scholars to enhance quality of faculty and its focus on research." Makes you wonder if this was the motivation behind Prof. Storrow's rapid rise to the top of the pay scale.
While I'm glad that CUNY has some good scholars on staff, here's hoping that the quality of teaching continues to match or exceed that capacity.
You have added an amazing professor to your school. I had Prof Storrow as a student at PSU law and after having him as my 1L Property instructor I sought to take classes he taught because of his ability to connect with the students and genuine desire to teach. I think you will really enjoy having him as a professor as we were sad to see him go.
(beware of the hopper)
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