(From the perspective of an engineering student taking this for a tech breadth) This class is incredibly boring, and though the material isn’t particularly difficult, the way it was taught made it very hard to force yourself to do. It was only pre-recorded lectures from April, with the grades being entirely the midterm and final. The subject itself is very dull and the lectures worsen this (thank god for 1.6x video speed). That said, it was a very light load of work, which was really nice when taking more work-heavy classes, so would recommend if that’s what you’re looking for in a tech breadth class.

I got an A+ in this class so I am a little biased, but I have to say that I really, really loved this class. Klein has ALL the lectures recorded and posted before the class even starts, and there is no homework, projects, etc. but rather just a midterm and a final. This means that the overall workload is very light and you can focus on the lectures. And that is exactly my biggest piece of advice: don't worry about ANYTHING else... just take notes on everything he says during lectures, especially all of his example scenarios, and memorize it all. As long as you can memorize them, you're golden. Midterm and final is ALL ABOUT NUANCE. Nuance, nuance, nuance. You need to understand the details behind the concepts and realize when things are ambiguous or if there's a tiny detail that changes the whole question. In summary, the quality of your lecture notes, how well you've memorized the concepts taught in lecture, and whether you can spot the "devil in the details" will determine whether you succeed or fail in this class.

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Klein, although a smart man, does not seem to be a great educator from my experience with his Business Law class.
Here are the following complaints I have about his competency as an instructor.

1. Not reviewing midterm exams with students and leaving students with a TA that did not take business law at all and a sheet of paper that barely helps students understand why they got specific questions wrong. The students are not even able to take the exam home and review on their own time or go to his office hours and ask for clarification because they cannot have the questions with them.
2. Not providing sufficient practice questions and supportive resources to help students do well in class. He told me that the business law textbook questions are nothing like his exams when I was solving them and asking him questions. He gave us one 2 page sheet to solve for the entire weeks without any other guidance on how to prep for his exams.
3. Providing lecture content that contradicts information from the textbook he provides. When I and other students ask him during office hours, he simply told us that the textbook is very different, insinuating that we should not use their questions. Then, what should we use as practice to prep for his exams?
4. Holding office hours in one slot per week for two different classes at once. Business law students have one day a week to ask him questions but we have to spend a portion of that time listening to tax law students and their questions.
5. Making exams completely different format from his practice questions. His sample questions are in written format and ask individual questions but his actual exam is multiple choice (stripping you from the opportunity to REASON as you do in law). He could have prepped us better with similar sample questions and resources like quizzes, homework, and resources to help us enhance our understanding throughout the course. Yet, he seemed as if he did not want to bother with that extra time he has to put in, which is the instructor's duty. The median for our midterm exam was 50, which shows that he failed to successfully teach and enhance students' learning.
6. Not giving any partial credit and making exams short and multiple choice so each question has a lot of weight. This type of exam does not make sense in a business law class. Klein himself said that law is ambiguous and can be reasoned in multiple ways. Yet, his exams are black and white and do not give any partial credit even though students use the correctly applicable law but just did not get the correct answer he wanted, which drops students' scores significantly. Although he can argue that he curves grades, that still curves the students' scores from an average of C to a B. Shouldn't good instructors try to help students get As and not Bs in their classes? These low scores take away the fun of the content of business law and gives immense stress to students. Good instructors try all they can to help students' learnings and their success in the class. Klein seems to have no intention or care to do so.

Sir. Like what the heck... First and foremost, I will try to be as objective as possible but it is very difficult to do so when it feels like this fall quarter has been a trainwreck with him. Let's start with the lectures first: so, he posts like 30-35 lectures on CCLE in which he has examples that literally do not show up anywhere on the midterm and final. In all fairness, he tries to come up with some relevant and celebrity-based examples but it does not work. You have to watch ALL his lectures at least twice to understand what he is saying. However, that does not really help you at all on the final.

When we were first starting off in the class, he gave us his course reader material which was two PDFs that were basically the overview but never a good view of anything test-able. That is about it...when it comes to the material that he provides. He did say to use the book sometimes but literally, if you do not read all the chapters, you will definitely fail on the final. He is not accessible and even if he was, his answers are so monotone you might as well as a brick wall. He had a TA session but honestly, it did not help since each TA had a different explanation for everything and everyone's response was "just read the book and practice." PRACTICE WHAT?

In the end, the class was a trainwreck. I think the grading was like 10% midterm and 90% final, and basically, the final WRECKED me and welp, it was a mistake taking this class. I took this class before at community college and when I say that the COMMUNITY COLLEGE professor was 100x better, I am definitely not lying. I hope Klein can reevaluate his teaching method and try something else because it clearly isn't working right now.

I'm going to be as objective as I can with this review given the circumstances surrounding this professor at the moment.

Klein gives engaging lectures with a lot of clear, relevant examples, which is pretty rare for an accounting professor. It's not like Gardner where she goes off on a tangent and doesn't always have a clear way of connecting it to the material. Klein clearly know what he's talking about and he's genuinely a good professor + the material is really interesting! Since everything was online this quarter, his videos were pre-recorded so thankfully we did not have to wake up at 8am or connect to Zoom. He released the entire video collection for the class in the first half of the quarter (and we never met), so that sort of helped figure out how behind or ahead we were in the course.

Cons: Our grade depended 100% on a "simple, short final". Those were his exact words. Obviously, I can't tell you what his intentions were, but that wasn't really helpful/accommodating, at least to me. I feel like that's a lot of pressure and one exam isn't going to accurately reflect our knowledge because some people might be having off days, others are just bad test takers, etc. The final was 29 MC questions and it wasn't terribly difficult, but honestly, 29 questions for 10 weeks worth of material?? And then, the graders sent out an email saying (this is just a paraphrase) that the solutions were created by some brilliant professor and not to dispute them as if they were incapable of making a mistake..

Overall, interesting material, it's something that will probably stick with me in the long run. Would I take this specific professor? I don't think I would..but if you do, don't even bother buying the textbook, the course reader has everything you need to know + some midterm/final sample questions!

Don't get intimidated by negative reviews about Mr. Klein. He is not a bad professor. In fact, I think Mr. Klein is one of the best professors at UCLA Anderson school. He has extensive career experience as a lawyer, and he explains difficult legal concepts very effectively through real-world case examples. His lecture is nothing like "reading off from the slide" that many lazy lecturers would do, but involves practical application of concepts, and focuses on enhancing critical thinking and analyzing skills. You don't need to waste your time on reading the textbook since his lecture and course reader explains the concepts way better than the book. I would recommend to record his lecture and go over it after the class to make sure you understood everything he explained during the lecture. Don't just memorize stuff but make sure you "understand" it--meaning, being able to apply the concepts through case examples in different scenarios.
No H/W, No required readings. Great class to earn an A and improve my GPA.

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Klein is a tough, but good professor. His lectures mainly go over examples of concepts covered in the course reader. You gain a lot of real-life knowledge about how business is conducted in the real world, and what is considered lawful.

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I absolutely fell in love with the material and I feel Klein was very good in elaborating on what he was teaching. His examples were spot on and translated very easily to the midterm and the final. I personally found his class to be easy, though my friends found it extremely difficult and suffered, I think it depends if you are compatible with his teaching style. You will NEED the course reader, so definitely get that.