SERA
“You are the best student I have had in eleven years of teaching this course.”
Professor Adeyemi said it at the end of Sera’s second year contracts examination with the directness of a man who had decided that hedging was a form of dishonesty and had stopped practicing it.
She looked at him across the examination table.
“That is a significant thing to say,” she said.
“I say significant things when they are true,” he said. “You argue from the inside of the material. Not from having studied it but from having used it in conditions that most lawyers encounter only after a decade of practice.” He held her gaze. “The contracts paper you submitted last month on the enforceability of accountability clauses in pharmaceutical agreements. The case study in section four. I recognized the fa
