David Sherwyn

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Thu, 15 May 2008 10:17:13 +0000

His class is not limited to hotelie…I took 387 and a couple non-hotelie are in it–he’ll let you in with a good reason. He also teach some labor law class cross-listed with the ILR school that’s almost opened to everyone.
His class are open-note open-book and unlimited time because the context (law) is not the hard part. His analysis is the hard part. He looks for very specific things in the analysis, and the law is never straight forward.
There’s no reason to rant about that because there are plenty of classes that gives take-home finals and final essay instead of final exam. You can think of Dave Sherwyn’s test as a final essay. The only reason why he makes us take it in the school is so we wouldn’t talk about it with other people. Everything else is up for grabs.
I will admit the class is not that much work—but the median grade is not an A. It’s a easy work class but not an easy A class as much.


**FINALLY, I will say one more thing. My friend works at an asset management job for a highly prestigious company–he claims the stuff he learned in law (particularly contracts) helps him out a lot. While it can’t substitute important classes like acquisition (if you want to do real estate) or Charles Chang’s portfolio class, it does add some interesting knowledge to your background.