I do not question the expertise of these professors in their legal field, nor do I envy their task of talking at a camera for hours on end in what appears to be a J.C. Penny Portrait Studio.
I sometimes question why these professors are willing to have themselves recorded for the benefit of law graduates, whose resentment at having to sit indoors watching them grows with each completed Mad Lib page. But then I remember that these poor professors are just standing alone in that Portrait Studio, trying to earn an extra buck or two to tack onto their six-figure salaries.
I always question the outfit choices of these professors. The dreariness of watching men in neutral suits and ties speak against a neutral backdrop is hard to take, and is likely the reason I so often open a new browser tab for celebrity gossip updates.
The monotony of the lecturers' appearance is also the reason for a new segment I would like to call "Faculty Flair Favorite" (name subject to change). Each week in Faculty Flair Favorite I will highlight one bar review lecturer whose personal style (fashion, lecturing, etc) did not cause me to minimize or click out of his or her video within the first 15 minutes of his or her lecture.
This week, the Faculty Flair Favorite is Professor Susan Vivian Mangold from the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School for her PTA meeting style and confident, if lengthy, self-introduction. Professor Mangold adds some Coldwater Creek-chic to her Family Law lectures with a robin's egg blue cardigan and turquoise necklace. Additionally, at the beginning of each lecture, Professor Mangold makes clear that, though she may dress like your mother, she has a fifteen word title, and she is not embarrassed to use it twelve times over. So kudos to you, Professor Susan Vivian Mangold from the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School.
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