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Class record · LAWS · LAW

LAWS 2110

Critical Perspectives: Law, Context, and Professional Identity · 30 instructors on record · 80 sections

What the course score is made of
66BC evaluations80 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2022 – Fall 2025
Student reviewsno reviews — does not contribute
RateMyProfessorsno ratings — does not contribute

That is the class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it. Who taught it, and how each of them scored, is the board below — that is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between.

What the challenge rank is made of
1stMore challenging than 1% of BC classesranked against every one we hold
69BC — “Intellectually Challenging”80 records · raw score out of 100

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
1stMore work than 1% of BC classesranked against every one we hold
21BC — “Workload”80 records · raw score out of 100

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 is a required, one-credit, pass/fail Fall course for incoming 1Ls. The course will introduce a core set of critical perspectives that will give 1L students the basic skills to begin to think deeply about the role of race, gender, wealth, and power in the law, in the law school, and in their own professional identity formation.

The board

30 instructors · ranked on this class onlyCompare the top 3
Filters 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. 7 of the 30 rows carry a mark saying so.

RankInstructorOverallWorkloadChallengeRMP overall
1Filippa AnzaloneLaw944 records0th2ndno page
2Daniela UrosaLaw914 records0th3rd801 rating · all classes
3Elisabeth MedvedowLaw fewer records923 records0th3rdno page
4Stephanie FarneLaw Provisional fewer records932 records0th3rdno page
5Reena ParikhLaw895 records1st1stno page
6Joseph LiuLaw Provisional fewer records941 record0th0thno page
7Daniel FarbmanLaw Provisional912 records0th4thno page
8Geraldine HinesLaw884 records1st2ndno page
9Amanda TeoLaw Provisional fewer records931 record0th0thno page
10Ana RiveraLaw Provisional931 record0th1stno page
11Aziz RanaLaw Provisional931 record0th3rdno page
12Felipe ColeLaw Provisional931 record0th4thno page
13Mary HolperLaw Provisional902 records0th1stno page
14Maureen Van NesteLaw Provisional892 records0th0thno page
15Brian QuinnLaw Provisional892 records0th2ndno page
16Judith Mc MorrowLaw Provisional891 record0th0thno page
17Laurel DavisLaw8612 records1st1stno page
18Claire Donohue PronoLaw866 records1st0thno page
19Jenna CobbLaw Provisional851 record0th0thno page
20Evangeline SardaLaw853 records0th1stno page
21Heather ArroyoLaw Provisional841 record0th0thno page
22Raul CarrilloLaw Provisional831 record0th18thno page
23Alan MinuskinLaw Provisional fewer records741 record0th0thno page
24Paulo BarrozoLaw804 records0th1stno page
25Lumina SatoLaw Provisional fewer records691 record0th0thno page
26Cheryl BrattLaw817 records0th0thno page
27Karen BredaLaw Provisional fewer records752 records0th0thno page
28David MartinLaw773 records0th0thno page
29David OlsonLaw Provisional631 record0th0thno page
30Vik KanwarLaw Provisional501 record0th0thno page

All 30 instructors listed.

How this board is orderedPositions 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”. Overall is the instructor's blended score for THIS class only, and its one contributing source is Boston College's evaluations for the sections in the row's record count — nothing on this board is an average across the other things they teach. Workload and Challenge are RANKS against every class we hold, not scores: BC's questions all sit near the top of the 1-5 scale, so a raw number would put almost every row in the high eighties and tell you nothing. Challenge is BC's “intellectually challenging” item, which students answer positively about courses that stretched them — it is not a measure of difficulty or grading. Neither column is ever marked better or worse. 19 of 30 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; that site has no course dimension, so it is shown for information and kept out of the ranking.

The line

All 13 items · means across 80 records
The Professor4 items
Clearly Explains MaterialThe instructor was effective at creating an understanding of difficult subject matter.
8923rd pctl
Available Outside of ClassThe instructor was available for help outside of class.
8817th pctl
Brings Out Your Best WorkThe instructor motivated me to do my best work.
8822nd pctl
Sparked My InterestThe course stimulated my interest in the subject matter.
8817th pctl
The Course3 items
Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.
8011th pctl
Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.
775th pctl
Useful Beyond the CourseWhat I learned is applicable beyond this course.
815th pctl
Assignments & Feedback3 items
Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.
753rd pctl
Gives Feedback PromptlyI received feedback on my work in a timely manner.
8730th pctl
Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.
8624th pctl
Workload, difficulty & attendanceNot ratings
WorkloadHow 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.
211st pctl
Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.
691st pctl
Attendance MattersAttending class was necessary to do well in this course.
787th pctl

Bar length is the rank against every comparable record we hold, not the raw score: BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so a raw-scale bar would be nearly full on every row and would tell you nothing. 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

80 sections · newest first
InstructorTermSecInstrCourseWork
Laurel DavisFall 202501746420
Raul CarrilloFall 202502837420
David MartinFall 202503684920
Ana RiveraFall 202504936920
Amanda TeoFall 202505936620
Laurel DavisFall 202506907820
Felipe ColeFall 202507936820
Laurel DavisFall 202508928220
Claire Donohue PronoFall 202509906820
Reena ParikhFall 202510938520
Laurel DavisFall 202511837320
Brian QuinnFall 202512897120
Aziz RanaFall 202513938020
Evangeline SardaFall 202514927820
Daniela UrosaFall 202515887620
Geraldine HinesFall 202516877020
Filippa AnzaloneFall 2025171009120
Paulo BarrozoFall 202518908020
Elisabeth MedvedowFall 202401897120
Geraldine HinesFall 202401877120
Paulo BarrozoFall 202401807120
Reena ParikhFall 202401937120
Paulo BarrozoFall 202402776620
Elisabeth MedvedowFall 202403967920
Geraldine HinesFall 202404897440

Showing the first 25.

How to read this boardInstructors 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.