I have been accepted to Georgetowns LL.M tax program, but I have a couple of concerns. First, almost all of the LL.M. classes are taught by adjunct faculty. The regular Georgetown faculty seems to have very little involvement with the LL.M program. $42,000 a year seems like a lot just to be taught by adjuncts.

Second, a number of the classes have more than one adjunct faculty member assigned to them. So, one week one professor is teaching the class and then you have a different professor teaching the next week. That doesnt seem like a great way to learn.

I am still waiting to hear from Florida and Northwestern. At those two schools it looks like the full time faculty are much more involved in their schools LL.M. program (the full time faculty teach the core classes). For this reason I would rather go to either Florida or NW (even though NW is lower than GT in the rankings).

Does anyone have any familiarity with GTs adjunct faculty? Can anyone allay my concerns about Georgetown?

Thank you in advance.

I think that UF and NW are rare in the respect that full time faculty teach most classes. (UF does so because gainesville has no legal market. Most of NW electives are taught by adjuncts) The reason schools teach using a high number of adjuncts is because tax is a very practical field. You dont get your LLM in tax because you want to learn some profs random constitutional theory on why we have our tax system the way we do. You get a tax llm because you want to learn how to practice tax. Adjucts are the best at the practice of tax, they do this everyday. As for GT, the adjucts include judges from the tax court, government officials as well as partners at major DC firms.