Appreciating Our Professors: Robert F. Boden
When I applied for admission to Marquette Law School in the fall of 1971, my application was denied because over half of my undergraduate coursework was ungraded, a consequence of the policy at the Residential College of the University of Michigan from which I graduated. Upon being admitted to the Law School when my application was reconsidered, the lowest grade I received was in Professional Responsibility.
That I am a Professor of Law at Marquette University with particular expertise in legal ethics is due in large part to Dean Robert F. Boden, who caused my application for admission to be reconsidered, who hired me during my third year of law school, and who assigned me as a junior faculty member to teach Professional Responsibility even though he gave me my lowest grade in law school when I took that course from him.
Marquette had some great law teachers in my era as a student (1972-1975).