Maggie's Farm

"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you."

Boy that brings back memories. That's one of the phrases used by Stefan Riesenfeld of Boalt Hall law school at Berkeley. Students were terrified of him. I had him for first year property law in the Seventies, and the first day of class he had a woman in tears because she hadn't read the materials and didn't know the difference between a fee simple absolute, a fee simple determinable, a fee simple subject to a condition subsequent, and a fee simple subject to an executory limitation. But I have to say, he's the one professor where, to this day, I remember everything he taught in that class.

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/1999/0224/riesenfeld.html

I understand law schools have gone soft over the years and it's not like that any more.