Kevin Clermont - Cornell University

Professor: Kevin Clermont

Department: TBD

College: Cornell University

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: CIVPRO
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Clermont is a brilliant scholar but unable to make the material understandable for his students. Lectures go off on irrelevant tangents, leaving less time for important material. The exam was absolutely ridiculous and does not measure how well the students learned the semester's material. Sorry Cornell 1Ls, you're stuck with him one semester.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: CIVP1
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

The best professor I've had so far. Prepare for class and think about the material and you will get a lot out of this. So far he is the only teacher to write multiple choice questions that don't have mistakes in them that make the answers ambiguous. People see issues and know the material will do well in this class, and people who don't won't.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ADCIVADV
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

1 of the 2 finest professors at Cornell back in 82. His analysis of the overlap of attorney client privilege, work product and mental impressions should be mandatory learning for all trial judges, who I find almost uniformly misunderstand the principles.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: CIVPRA
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Great Prof. After you have done your work, he would lift you to a whole new level. The exam was not easy, but reasonable nonetheless.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: LAW500
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Clermont is tough because he wants you to take the material seriously. He's "extremely helpful" only for those people that have actually struggled with answering their own questions before coming to him. He does not suffer fools lightly. If you've given your best effort, he'll give you some direction - but no free answers.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: CIVPR001
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Difficult to understand, moody, bitter, hide-the-ball exam.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: LAW5001
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Teaches to the top 10% of the class, and the rest of his students are left scratching their heads. Prides himself on the fact that he gives out incredibly difficult finals. Unfortunately, every 1L can expect to have him.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: LAW5001
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Clermont makes it near impossible to learn civil procedure, one of the hardest first year classes. He doesn't realize his students haven't been studying it for 50 years like he has. But too bad. All 1Ls have to take him.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: CVPRO101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

A great professor - engaging and dedicated. For those of you there now, this man never missed a single class while going through a year of intensive chemo. Yeah, he loves to play jedi mind tricks on students -- if you want to be spoon fed the material, get out of his classroom.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: CIVPRO
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Brilliant; great fun; hard. He does a great job explaining the second half of CivPro. He knows what he is talking about (he did write the book, after all. I didn't care for CivPro 1st semester, but Clermont is able to both explain the subject, and make it come alive. Wait for his Pennoyer discussion. it's hilarious and tragic at the same time.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: CIVPR101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

A really fun professor but don't feel bad if you walk out of class and feel like a complete moron... In some ways, he makes the class harder than it needs to be.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: LAW5001
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Very smart, very funny. However, he sometimes forgets that not everyone understands Civil Procedure as well as he does. You end up taking a lot of notes in that class.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: CIVPRO
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I thought I understood everything until I took the exam. Very impressive to listen to, and he knows it.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: CIVPRO
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

probably the smartest professor in the law school. but it isnt worth a damn if you are set up for failure. what i mean is, this prof is known for making a purposefully hard multiple choice final for which the average is 30%. Civ pro is hard as it is without some equisite scholar traping you.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: CIVPRO
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Good professor, but I never understood a dam thing he said. Has a lot to do with subject though. Probably the smartest prof in the law school, and that is saying a lot.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: LAW431
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Powerful intellect and classroom presence. One of the law school's finest.