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In retrospect a good teacher.900 pages of reading. Challenging but manageable pace.She seems to actually care about whether or not students understand material, as long as you show effort. Seems like a nice person and was approachable for clarification.Difficult exam,but doable.She won't tell you everything on exam, when she says it will be,listen!

I love Prof. Cooper. I've had her for 2 classes and I'm taking a third next semester. She's very approachable, fair, but doesn't allow nonsensical rants and cuts people off when needed. When she asks questions not explicitly covered in class (re: crim law complaints) she's rewarded those that READ instead of just show up.

Cooper is a very fair teacher. I think people improperly direct complaints at her when they underestimate the amount of nuance in Crim. Law. People assume it's easy from the go and are disappointed in May. Get this book (978-1422429877) and outline it. If you do, you'll do well. Period. She loves it and teaches right from it. Thank me later.

I felt like Prof Cooper did a great job explaining the material and was very receptive to feedback. She is extremely fair and warm. I would take a class with her again without question.

Absolutely awful professor. She used to teach undergrad and never practiced law...and you can tell. She uses power points to teach the class and reads straight from them. She chose to focus on homicide for the majority of the semester rather than teaching us about any other topic that is on the bar, like rape. Her exam was also ridiculous.

Professor Cooper's CrimLaw class was not what I was hoping. I REALLY wanted to be interested in this class. However, I could not keep focused. It really dragged. She tried to relate to the students too hard. what should have been the most interesting class of the semester=snoozefest. Exam more about rote memorization vs. analysis.

She somehow made interesting subject matter tedious and unnecessarily confusing. Be prepared to teach yourself. Will never take another class with her again. Only good thing I can say is we didn't get called on at all after the third week.

I agree that Prof. Cooper wasn't the greatest for Crim Law, but she was awesome in Ethics. She managed to make an otherwise boring class really fun. Even if you had a bad experience first year in Crim, take Ethics with her if you can. She's much better with smaller groups of upper class tudents.

First, I want to say that the majority of the negative comments here are accurate. AVOID! Cooper cannot just tell us what we need to know to master criminal law. This class should be called criminal theory. It focuses on the abstract, and then she expects us to just "know" the model penal code as distinct from common law

She is a really caring professor and the perfect person to have in charge of LRW for 1 and 2 ls. She is very helpful and although she is a stickler for the rules, she is reasonabale and flexible and she really go above and beyond to help you and do her job as your professor. I think she is a wonderful professor. The writing process can still suck.