When I left the day-to-day practice of the law for a job as a law professor, I brought with me what I imagine are common expectations and anxieties. One of my great fears was that in each class that I taught I would be bombarded with hypertechnical or convoluted questions about the law that I would be unable to answer. I imagined myself standing before a classroom of expectant students, paralyzed in ignorance, as the beads of sweat slowly rolled down my face.
Happily, over the past five years, I’ve found that my fear wasn’t rational (or, at least, I wasn’t prescient). There has rarely been a time that I was so thrown by a student’s question that I lost my composure. Those times when students have asked questions for which I did not have an immediate answer have been far from traumatic and have generally provided an opportunity for the students and me to investigate an interesting, if somewhat insular, point of law.
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