The Anatomy of a Torts Class
62 Pages Posted: 12 Dec 2017
Date Written: June 1, 1985
Abstract
It is the afternoon before my final torts class. I am sitting in the computer room trying to get the adrenaline ready and pretending to myself that I am not nervous. This is the first time I have ever taught torts and even though the semester is almost over I can still feel the mixture of longing and dread that goes with a first time preparation. I have thought about this class all semester. I have worried obsessively, celebrated when things went right, wept when they went wrong, prepared new materials, tried to apply the things I know about legal theory, borrowed ideas from my friends, psychoanalyzed the class and myself. But during this period, starting eight months ago when I first learned I was to teach the course, one thing has been nagging at me-nobody writes about teaching.
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