Comments on: UK: Student goes to court to appeal university grade https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/09/uk-student-goes-to-court-to-appeal-university-grade/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:02:29 +0000 hourly 1 By: VMS https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/09/uk-student-goes-to-court-to-appeal-university-grade/comment-page-1/#comment-102163 Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:02:29 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=19358#comment-102163 Who knows what will be with the Alice in Wonderland jurisprudence across the pond.

]]> By: paul mckaskle https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/09/uk-student-goes-to-court-to-appeal-university-grade/comment-page-1/#comment-102098 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:44:24 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=19358#comment-102098 As a retired law professor I was always hoping that someone would sue claiming that I had given him or her a wrong grade and that a judge would allow the case to proceed and make a decision to change the grade based on his or her evaluation. Once the precedent was set, I would then file a declaratory relief action on each set of exams that I had administered for the court to decide the correct grades. Grading law exams is probably the worst part of a law professor’s job, and it would be a relief to turn the job over to someone else. (For those who may not know it, unlike most other academic subjects, law professors don’t have TAs to grade exams, it is almost universal that they grade their own exams.)

Alas, in California at least, courts have universally refused to grant relief to disgruntled students.

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