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LAWS 3231

Contract Drafting · 1 instructor on record · 5 sections

What the course score is made of

70BC evaluations5 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021 – Fall 2025

—Student reviewsno reviews — does not contribute

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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

15thMore challenging than 15% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

83BC — “Intellectually Challenging”5 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

78thMore work than 78% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

60BC — “Workload”5 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 course provides a foundation for drafting contracts, a skill critical for all lawyers. Lawyers are writers. A big part of that writing consists of contracts, not just for transactional lawyers but also including litigators, family lawyers, regulatory lawyers (both government and private practice), and others. This class covers both the why of various contract parts and technical writing skills. Thus the course will examine contractual covenants, representations and warranties, conditions, remedies, choice of law and other provisions. Technical topics include structuring contracts and crisp drafting of substantive terms and definitions. To meet the upper-level writing requirement, after learning the various topics and drafting techniques, students will draft various contracts from scratch that together meet the 30-page minimum. That will be the primary component of the grading, and there will also be a significant class participation portion of the grade.

The only instructor on record

5 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
David MartinLaw	755 records	78th	15th

There is no ranking to read here: David Martin is the only instructor with evaluation records for LAWS 3231, so the number is a record, not a position.

Also taught by David Martin

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
LAWS 2110Critical Perspectives: Law, Context, and Professional Identity	3080 records	66
LAWS 6682Commercial Law: Secured Transactions	27 records	88
LAWS 4425Law of Money	13 records	83
LAWS 8823Life Cycle of a Chapter 11 Restructuring Case	13 records	91
LAWS 6254Introduction to Business Strategy for Lawyers	12 records	73
LAWS 3397Summer in Training Seminar	11 record	47

Other LAWS classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
LAWS 2110Critical Perspectives: Law, Context, and Professional Identity	3080 records	66
LAWS 8667Legal Practice Externship	251 records	91
LAWS 2150Law Practice 1	1032 records	84
LAWS 2155Law Practice II	1032 records	83
LAWS 8130Advanced Legal Research	829 records	92
LAWS 2190Professional Responsibility	926 records	74

The line

All 13 items · means across 5 records

The Professor4 items

Clearly Explains MaterialThe instructor was effective at creating an understanding of difficult subject matter.

8410th pctl

Available Outside of ClassThe instructor was available for help outside of class.

8510th pctl

Brings Out Your Best WorkThe instructor motivated me to do my best work.

838th pctl

Sparked My InterestThe course stimulated my interest in the subject matter.

8612th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

703rd pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

753rd pctl

Useful Beyond the CourseWhat I learned is applicable beyond this course.

8927th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

808th pctl

Gives Feedback PromptlyI received feedback on my work in a timely manner.

520th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

651st 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.

6078th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

8315th pctl

Attendance MattersAttending class was necessary to do well in this course.

8317th 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

5 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
David Martin	Fall 2025	01	90	84	60
David Martin	Fall 2024	01	78	71	60
David Martin	Fall 2023	01	77	67	60
David Martin	Fall 2022	01	74	72	60
David Martin	Fall 2021	01	58	54	60

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.