Chicago Law Professors, Like Their Students, Must Also Suffer Through Class During World Series

The law school should have canceled all evening classes.

Jake Arrieta of the Chicago Cubs (Photo by Jason Miller/Getty)

Jake Arrieta of the Chicago Cubs (Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images)

You try to teach the Uniform Commercial Code while the World Series is going on. It’s brutal.

— Professor Ann Lousin of John Marshall Law School in Chicago, lamenting the fact that she had to teach a three-hour sales transactions course during the first night of the World Series. Students showed up, but by hour two of the class, she mercifully cut her lecture short and let them leave (but she actually wanted to watch the game, too).


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