I would highly recommend ADR or EDR w/ Kantor at some time in your UMLS career. Prof Kantor is very experienced in the field of dispute resolution, and he does a great job combining lectures, guest speaker and exercises to make class a lot different than a typical law school lecture class. Additionally, I really feel like knowing the different dispute resolution techniques will aid you in whatever you wish to use your law degree for
I had Kantor for ADR, and he was a very enjoyable professor in that class. His reading assignments, while massive, could be skipped as long as you knew the general idea of any specific cases he assigned. Discussing reading assignments was not a big part of ADR, and for the most part, you could bullshit your way through most cold-calls (which he does fairly often) without embarrassment. Kantor takes good command of the classroom and there is little wasted motion in class discussions. Overall, a very nice guy, and his vast experience as a mediator makes his lectures practical and interesting.
Assignments can be tedious, but the class is probably one of the most useful classes you’ll take in law school. Kantor is a nice, pleasant guy, but he is old school. Be sure not to dress like a slob and attend all the classes. Kantor care a lot about those little formalities.
I have ADR with Kantor, and am loving the class. The material is pretty easy but is important and very engaging. I think the course will be useful as a practicing lawyer. Kantor has a lot of experience, and can be funny. He started the course by acknowledging a generational and cultural divide between him and us students, so asked us to let us know if he ever said or did something that bothered us, which I really appreciated. He did make a few comments that were heteronormative and potentially sexist, but honestly, as a queer woman, things can be much worse in this conservative field. I really appreciate how Kantor makes it clear that mistakes are perfectly fine in the class, since it’s an environment for learning. Would highly recommend!
Had ADR with Kantor, and have mixed feelings. The materials on mediation were very interesting, but the stuff at the beginning on arbitration is so dry and boring, and is made worse by Kantor’s style of teaching. On top of that, some of the readings were exceptionally long, and he requires you to read two full-length novels during the semester on top of the weekly readings, and while there is no in-class final, he makes you write a 15-page final paper. I also took Negotiation with Kimball in the same semester, and while the materials themselves were fairly similar, the differences in teaching style and workload could not be more different. Save yourself the trouble and just do Negotiation instead.
Disagree with the above to an extent. You can get away with skimming the readings as 90% of the material is intuitive. The beginning of the course (arbitration) is definitely boring, but I enjoyed the remainder of the course. Final paper is super easy, based entirely off of the book you read. 9/10 would recommend the course for an easy A.
Professor Kantor is a really nice person but he sometimes misses the mark when teaching the class. The first half of the semester I was wondering why I wasted a priority on it – there was a lot of reading and the classes were long lecture style. You could get away with just quimbeeing cases but we had to write a paper on a book and it required that you read the book which was a lot. Once it switches from arbitration to negotiation, the class was a lot better because the readings were not necessary and we spent class negotiating in groups which was fun. The final is based on another book so you’re reading two long novels throughout the class. Overall, the class was worth it because it was a pretty easy A. But you still had to read two books and put some effort in.
I agree with the above comment, Professor Kantor is a very nice person, but I personally had a hard time in ADR since the teaching was not particularly clear or engaging. Expectations were not clearly communicated, which could be frustrating. If I could go back, I personally would skip it because I didn’t learn much, but it is a pretty easy A.
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I would highly recommend ADR or EDR w/ Kantor at some time in your UMLS career. Prof Kantor is very experienced in the field of dispute resolution, and he does a great job combining lectures, guest speaker and exercises to make class a lot different than a typical law school lecture class. Additionally, I really feel like knowing the different dispute resolution techniques will aid you in whatever you wish to use your law degree for
ADR(Kantor): Enjoyable, you can skimp on the reading. Several short papers (3-5 pages) which you can knock out easily.
I had Kantor for ADR, and he was a very enjoyable professor in that class. His reading assignments, while massive, could be skipped as long as you knew the general idea of any specific cases he assigned. Discussing reading assignments was not a big part of ADR, and for the most part, you could bullshit your way through most cold-calls (which he does fairly often) without embarrassment. Kantor takes good command of the classroom and there is little wasted motion in class discussions. Overall, a very nice guy, and his vast experience as a mediator makes his lectures practical and interesting.
Assignments can be tedious, but the class is probably one of the most useful classes you’ll take in law school. Kantor is a nice, pleasant guy, but he is old school. Be sure not to dress like a slob and attend all the classes. Kantor care a lot about those little formalities.
I have ADR with Kantor, and am loving the class. The material is pretty easy but is important and very engaging. I think the course will be useful as a practicing lawyer. Kantor has a lot of experience, and can be funny. He started the course by acknowledging a generational and cultural divide between him and us students, so asked us to let us know if he ever said or did something that bothered us, which I really appreciated. He did make a few comments that were heteronormative and potentially sexist, but honestly, as a queer woman, things can be much worse in this conservative field. I really appreciate how Kantor makes it clear that mistakes are perfectly fine in the class, since it’s an environment for learning. Would highly recommend!
Had ADR with Kantor, and have mixed feelings. The materials on mediation were very interesting, but the stuff at the beginning on arbitration is so dry and boring, and is made worse by Kantor’s style of teaching. On top of that, some of the readings were exceptionally long, and he requires you to read two full-length novels during the semester on top of the weekly readings, and while there is no in-class final, he makes you write a 15-page final paper. I also took Negotiation with Kimball in the same semester, and while the materials themselves were fairly similar, the differences in teaching style and workload could not be more different. Save yourself the trouble and just do Negotiation instead.
Disagree with the above to an extent. You can get away with skimming the readings as 90% of the material is intuitive. The beginning of the course (arbitration) is definitely boring, but I enjoyed the remainder of the course. Final paper is super easy, based entirely off of the book you read. 9/10 would recommend the course for an easy A.
Professor Kantor is a really nice person but he sometimes misses the mark when teaching the class. The first half of the semester I was wondering why I wasted a priority on it – there was a lot of reading and the classes were long lecture style. You could get away with just quimbeeing cases but we had to write a paper on a book and it required that you read the book which was a lot. Once it switches from arbitration to negotiation, the class was a lot better because the readings were not necessary and we spent class negotiating in groups which was fun. The final is based on another book so you’re reading two long novels throughout the class. Overall, the class was worth it because it was a pretty easy A. But you still had to read two books and put some effort in.
I agree with the above comment, Professor Kantor is a very nice person, but I personally had a hard time in ADR since the teaching was not particularly clear or engaging. Expectations were not clearly communicated, which could be frustrating. If I could go back, I personally would skip it because I didn’t learn much, but it is a pretty easy A.