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BSLW 1021

Law I--Introduction to Law and Legal Process · 12 instructors on record · 108 sections

How the curve score is built

78Teaching88 raw · 52nd percentile of BC classes

+1Easiness adjustmenteasiness 79 · 53 raw workload · lighter than 59% of BC classes

79Curve scorethe teaching curve +1 for the workload · at most ±6 either way

Boston College's ratings are bunched at the top — the median instructor averages about 88 out of 100 on the raw scale, and 44% of them clear 90 — so a raw score cannot separate anybody. Every figure here is ranked against BC classes and that rank is re-expressed out of 100, which is what turns a raw 88 — the middle of the university — into a figure that says where somebody actually stands. On this scale 77 is the median, 84 the top quarter and 91 the top tenth. Workload is then an adjustment on top of that, worth nothing at all for an ordinary one. Lighter work than 59% of BC classes.

What the course score is made of

88BC evaluations108 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021 – Spring 2026

—Student reviewsno reviews — does not contribute

—RateMyProfessorsno ratings — does not contribute

The class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it — who taught it is the board below.

How is this worked out?

That is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between: the board carries each instructor's own score for this class, and the score above is the class averaged across all of them.

What the challenge rank is made of

55thMore challenging than 55% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

91BC — “Intellectually Challenging”108 records · raw score out of 100

Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question. It is not a measure of difficulty, grading or workload.

How is this worked out?

Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question for this class only — students answer it positively about courses that stretched them, so it measures intellectual challenge and NOT grading, workload or quality. Almost every BC class scores high on it, which is why it is shown as a rank rather than a score.

What the workload rank is made of

41stMore work than 41% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

53BC — “Workload”108 records · raw score out of 100

One of Boston College's five workload bands, not a number of hours. Higher means more work, not worse.

How is this worked out?

Boston College reports workload for this class only as one of five bands, not as a number of hours, and it does not publish what the bands mean — so this site will not translate it into hours. Higher means more work, which is not the same as worse.

This course introduces students to the legal system and the social, legal, and regulatory environment of business. In addition to learning how the legal system works, students study substantive areas of business law including antitrust law, securities regulation, environmental law, employment law, international business, and intellectual property rights. The course includes an examination of the law of contracts from formation requirements to remedies for breach.

The board

12 instructors · ranked on this class onlyCompare the top 3

Find an instructor among the 12Filters the rows below. Positions are always against the whole class, so a rank does not change when the list is narrowed.

Scores are real averages. The order also accounts for how many records back each one — the count is under every score — so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them. 2 of the 12 rows carry a mark saying so.

Rank	Instructor	Curve	Easiness	Challenge	RMP overall
1	Thomas WesnerProfessor of the Practice · Business Law and Society	9197 raw · 20 records	68−2 to the score	76th	9621 ratings · all classes
2	Rachel SpoonerBusiness Law	8594 raw · 20 records	74−1 to the score	58th	9015 ratings · all classes
3	Michael FinucaneBusiness Law fewer records	8693 raw · 10 records	84+2 to the score	30th	1003 ratings · all classes
4	Elizabeth HendlerBusiness Law fewer records	9195 raw · 3 records	84+2 to the score	22nd	9810 ratings · all classes
5	Teresa CellaBusiness Law	8994 raw · 3 records	84+2 to the score	49th	1001 rating · all classes
6	Stephanie GreeneBusiness Law	8292 raw · 3 records	78±0 to the score	41st	1003 ratings · all classes
7	Ashly ScheufeleAssistant Professor of the Practice · Business Law and Society	7891 raw · 12 records	68−2 to the score	79th	9018 ratings · all classes
8	Kevin ConwayBusiness Law	7888 raw · 10 records	82+1 to the score	29th	9013 ratings · all classes
9	David TwomeyBusiness Law	7686 raw · 10 records	84+2 to the score	33rd	8830 ratings · all classes
10	David CervenyAssistant Professor of the Practice · Business Law and Society	7486 raw · 6 records	74−1 to the score	53rd	801 rating · all classes
11	Paul PellegrinoBusiness Law	7487 raw · 9 records	73−1 to the score	65th	867 ratings · all classes
12	Margaret McLeanBusiness Law Provisional	6473 raw · 2 records	—	24th	—no page

All 12 instructors listed.

1 of 12 rows are marked provisional: fewer than 3 records stand behind the number. That is thin evidence, not a bad instructor — the record count is in every row. The RateMyProfessors column is an instructor's overall figure across everything they teach, not a figure about this class.

How this board is built and ordered

Positions account for how many records stand behind each number, so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them. Every score shown is the real average — only the ordering is adjusted. The comparison here is the class itself: a thin record is read against how this class was rated overall, not against the university.

Every instructor with an evaluation record for this class is on this board — it is not a top ten, and nothing is hidden behind a “show more”. Curve is the instructor's score for THIS class only, ranked against every instructor we hold and printed back out of 100, with the raw BC average underneath it; nothing on this board is an average across the other things they teach. Easiness is an adjustment on top of it, worth up to about ±6 — BC's workload item, ranked and turned over, so a lighter section gains and a heavier one loses, while an ordinary one changes nothing — and each row prints the adjustment, signed. The board is ordered on the same figure it prints, adjusted for how many records back it. Challenge is BC's “intellectually challenging” item shown as a rank against every class we hold; students answer it positively about courses that stretched them, so it is not a measure of difficulty or grading, and it is never marked better or worse.

That site has no course dimension, so its figure is shown for information and kept out of the ranking.

The line

All 13 items · means across 108 records

Instructor4

Course3

Feedback3

Workload & Challengenot ratings

Bars are ranks, not raw scores. Nothing here is graded good or bad.

What each item asks

Explains Clearly: The instructor was effective at creating an understanding of difficult subject matter.
Available: The instructor was available for help outside of class.
Motivating: The instructor motivated me to do my best work.
Sparks Interest: The course stimulated my interest in the subject matter.
Organized: The course was well organized.
Clear Goals: The learning objectives for the course were clear.
Useful Later: What I learned is applicable beyond this course.
Assignments: Assignments and exams contributed to my learning.
Fast Feedback: I received feedback on my work in a timely manner.
Useful Feedback: The feedback I received on my work was meaningful.
Workload: How much work the course took outside class, on Boston College's five-band scale — the band boundaries are not published, so this is not a number of hours.
Challenge: The course was intellectually challenging.
Attendance: Attending class was necessary to do well in this course.

Why these numbers are curved

Both the number and the bar are the rank against every comparable record we hold, printed back out of 100. BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so on the raw scale every cell here would read in the high eighties and every bar would be nearly full — thirteen numbers that tell you nothing. Each cell prints its raw BC figure and its percentile underneath, so nothing is hidden by the transform. Every bar is one ink colour — nothing here is graded green or red. The hatched bars are not ratings at all: a higher number on either describes a different course, not a better one.

Game log

108 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Rachel Spooner	Spring 2026	01	90	86	60
Rachel Spooner	Spring 2026	02	98	96	60
Thomas Wesner	Spring 2026	03	97	93	60
David Cerveny	Spring 2026	04	94	87	40
Kevin Conway	Spring 2026	05	89	85	40
David Cerveny	Spring 2026	06	88	81	60
Thomas Wesner	Spring 2026	07	98	96	60
Michael Finucane	Spring 2026	08	90	90	40
Ashly Scheufele	Spring 2026	10	91	88	60
Ashly Scheufele	Spring 2026	11	94	88	60
David Cerveny	Spring 2026	12	93	88	—
Kevin Conway	Fall 2025	01	83	79	60
Rachel Spooner	Fall 2025	02	96	92	60
Rachel Spooner	Fall 2025	03	96	92	60
David Cerveny	Fall 2025	04	76	69	60
David Cerveny	Fall 2025	05	82	78	60
Ashly Scheufele	Fall 2025	06	95	90	60
Michael Finucane	Fall 2025	07	94	90	40
Thomas Wesner	Fall 2025	08	95	92	60
Thomas Wesner	Fall 2025	09	98	96	60
David Cerveny	Fall 2025	10	85	79	60
Paul Pellegrino	Fall 2025	11	89	85	60
Ashly Scheufele	Fall 2025	12	94	82	60
Ashly Scheufele	Fall 2025	13	97	90	60
Rachel Spooner	Spring 2025	01	95	93	60

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How to read this board

Instructors are ranked on their record in this class only, never on their average across everything they teach. Scores are out of 100 — Boston College's 1–5 agreement scale, ×20, the way these numbers were printed for years. Workload is BC's own five-band figure, not a number of hours, and is shown as a rank. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero.