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Article: Who teaches constitutional law?
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- Constitutional Commentary
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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Constitutional Law is a plum teaching assignment. William L. Prosser, then Dean of the University of California School of Law at Berkeley, complained more than forty years ago that "[t]he overwhelming majority" of teaching applicants "have wanted to teach Constitutional Law."(1) More recently, a survey of constitutional law professors established that 130 of 134 professors taught the course by their own choice; only four professors had succumbed to institutional pressure to teach constitutional law.(2)
There are a variety of reasons for the appeal of constitutional law. The subject raises provocative, highly publicized issues that are basic to our legal system. ...