If you are anything other than a very liberal person, taking a class with this professor will be extremely tough. She is very biased and makes it very clear that opinions other than hers are not acceptable. The class is very interesting but has a hard workload. I’ve learned more about why she doesn’t like republicans than I did about the class during lectures. Thankfully, the readings are thorough.

My initial impression of the class and the professor was bad, as weeks gone by, I realized I severely misjudged Lebow. I thought she fed off from flexing her authority and intelligence, but she actually deeply cares about her students and their education. But you have to make it known that you care about your learning experience through effort, by going to her office hours, attending every lecture, showing you are engaged during lecture. She will recognize your face and your EFFORT. Discussions in class are usually engaging and thought provoking. It's amazing to see deep and civil discussion among your peers despite their polarizing ideologies and principles. Students may be intimidated by Professor Lebow's cutthroat demeanor, but I believe she does it to prepare her students for the professional world (especially if you plan to become a Lawyer or Politician). The workload in the class is heavy, but by the end of the quarter, you will immensely learn about the Supreme Court and how the Government and people of the United States deal with controversial issues. And if you haven't already, you will develop discipline and the skill of time management, because the class is simply hard. I vehemently recommend this class to students that are passionate about the specific subject or even just Political Science. Most importantly, you must be prepared for a challenging course, Ultimately, if you are genuinely interested, the satisfaction you will get from class is indescribable.

I hated this class, I have taken 2 courses with Professor Lebow and she is the absolute worst. She is so draggy and there is SO MUCH MATERIAL TO MEMORIZE for the midterm. She is also a really hard grader.

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Rude, unhelpful professor. Her classes are dreadful. The material was extremely interesting, but she truly is a bad professor. Harsh grading, a midterm in which you had to know EVERYTHING and had to write 10 essays in 2 hours (like, for real???). I am a good student but GOODNESS THIS CLASS WAS HARD. Also, she makes preferences, so be prepared to go to every OH and be THAT type of student that would do anything to get in her graces.

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS unless you like spending $200, being overwhelmed by readings, and wasting 4 hrs/wk of your life. Lebow is a nice lady, but she does not make students feel welcome in seeking help. In one instance, she moved the day of our class and—since a lot of students couldn’t therefore attend—as a result, many students went to her office hours for help. The following class, she yelled at the students because she didn’t “have the time.” She asked for students to get the notes from their group partners, but no one in my group was able to attend the class. In addition, Lebow is biased to the point of blindness. I felt as though she was trying to indoctrinate the class, rather than actually educate her students. One student brought it up in office hours—that she was very biased—and her response was that ‘that is how [she] teaches and only addresses another side if it is raised by a student.’ Even her readings were blatantly biased. I felt very uncomfortable raising my hand in class in fear that my views would conflict with her personal beliefs that she constantly promoted in class. Personally, I didn’t put myself through thousands of dollars of debt to be indoctrinated; I could have gone to a church for that. As an educator, she was supposed to educate us rather than preach to us. She should have given us the pro/cons (better yet, she could have asked students for the pros/cons) of the different judicial ideologies and let students use their own brains to figure out what is best. The readings are beyond unnecessary and excessive, almost compensating for her lack of actual teaching. I would rather have a professor who just lectured off of the slides than listen to professor Lebow talk for two hours. It would have been more productive for us to have 1.25 hours of lecture twice a week & and actual 50 minute discussion class. The discussion would have been more beneficial for students and would give us the ability to actually speak and discuss the material. Most weeks, we had between 300-400 pages of reading. Many of the assigned materials were redundant. For example, we had to read the entire oral argument for Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstadt AND read a summary of it by Lyle Denison. If I was going to read the entire oral argument for this case, why would it be necessary to read the summary of it too. It seems as though Lebow did not take care in choosing the assigned materials we were required to read—as if she took articles and threw them into the course reader without giving a thought to what was actually important for us to read. Most of the readings were completely unnecessary and did not add any clarification or additional information in regards to the subject. For example, the Bush v. Al Gore reading did not provide me with any important infor and barely discussed the USSC at all. We were required to purchase 3 books, totaling over $200 (and I looked everywhere—ebay, thriftbooks, halfbooks, etc.—to find cheaper versions but were unavailable). It was completely superfluous. She did not explain what she wanted in terms of the midterm, so I spent 15 hours studying 1,000 pages of text for no reason rather, than just studying the court cases. She should have given students a better idea rather than them going in blindly. I shouldn’t have had to go in to office hours just to be told what to expect. Only the people who constantly went to office hours got an A. During the second half of the class, the professor forgot to put up the handouts we were required to read for weeks, putting each student even more behind than he/she was already likely to be. I only missed 2 classes, so it wasn’t for lack of attendance. I love constitutional law so this should have been the class I loved the most... But I hated it because of the lack of actual teaching.