Worst teacher I've ever had. Lots of attitude and sarcasm, very unhelpful. Doesn't use her own notes so she doesn't know what she's talking about. The exam was average but you have to teach yourself the material because learning in class is hopeless, as you spend so much time typing what she has on the screen (which she doesn't send before class)

Do not take this class with this teacher if you want to learn!! "Learning in this class is hopeless!" Class was never prepared! Textbook never used! She will sit and taped on the computer form the beginning of class until the end! You won’t learn much about law but you sure learn about her personal life! :( She didn’t follow the syllabus at all!!

I took it in winter 2014 She is NEVER prepared, she just writes things that come to mind, and is a weird person, and a tough grader.

not recommending her...

It seems like she knows what she is doing, until you ask a question or try and do homework! She follows the book, you don't get extra notes besides what's written inside. She formulates the questions differently then other profs on test, so that's why you don't do well! She corrects blindly (giving extra points) so you don't get good feedback -.-

She is probably the worst prof i've had in my college life. Avoid her at any cost. I mean the rating (1.2) speaks for itself, i don't know why she is even a university professor. Just awful.

Doesn't know what she is doing

Does not know the course material and reads directly off the slides. Also cannot understand questions when you ask them. She just does not know what she's doing.

WORST! Don't need to attend class. Everything is on the slides and textbook. Not organized. You have to learn by yourself. Asking questions will only get you more confused. Has attitude. Very boring.

I read the reviews and figured she couldn't be as bad as they said. Dropped the class because she's so bad at her job. If she doesn't know how to say a word in English she says it in French. Not knowledgable when you ask her questions. Just read the textbook and you'll learn more than you ever will from her.

I can tell Prof Paula Sauveur is a native French speakers by attending her course, But YOU WILL NEVER WITH TO GO TO HER ENGLISH CLASS. Her lecture slides are hard to understand in English, and She uses French based English in both the lectures and exams.

She reads off the slides, you don't need to show up to pass. She roams the class to make it "interactive" if you don't wanna talk, don't take her.

Horrible teaching!!! She reads from slides, is not engaging, has super disorganized slides and does not reply to emails. Don't go to class just read the textbook and review slides.

Horrible prof, nothing more to say.

I did not find her class to be worthwhile. In retrospect I could have dropped it. Difficult to understand, and not much value is added from her teaching, as she just reads the slides.

One of the worst prof I've ever had. Her class was all about memorizing definitions without putting them in context. I'm very glad I had a good basic knowledge in bio (being 4th year bio student) because she was very unclear in her explainations half of the time. Reads off slides and gets through a lot of material with no real point.

The most disorganized class, there is not point to her classes and not even to class review before the exams, she only make us memorize every single slices, her midterm was ALL open questions. Did not use the book at all, she has a lot of attitude and does not know how to teach.

I took Social Context of Business With her. The group assignment was hard because my group members were terrible, but Paula accommodated this and didn't give them any marks. Go to class because she tells you the exact questions she's going to put on the exam as 80% of her slides are irrelevant. Her exams are a lot of writing no MCQ so study a lot.

The slides were not organized at all and she goes very quickly. The grading scheme is unfair and difficult (if you don't mention one thing, no point) . She asks very specific questions on the midterm that she says in class, not from the slides or textbook. The professor is not approachable or understanding whatsoever. Wouldn't recommend.

she reads the slides and does not really teach.

Paula Sauveur is not a very good professor. Her slides are confusing and she's extremely dull in her lectures. It is without a doubt, however, that she is extremely intelligent. I guess teaching is not her thing. She's an easy marker and will tell you exactly what questions will be on the midterms and the final.

clueless on whats going on in class, very disorganized. Tells you things that will be on the mid term and not actual on it. Do not recommend taking this class at all.... No idea how she is a professor.

She's easily the most disorganized prof I've ever had. She goes on off-topic tangents that make no sense and then goes back to reading the slides, which are messy and hard to follow. She'll also tell you one thing in class and say something completely different in over brightspace/email. If she's teaching, wait to take law.

She is extremely condescending and disrespectful towards her students. When I tried to get marks on multiple choice questions that had more than one correct answer due to phrasing, she admitted her questions were ambiguously phrased and agreed with the logic of my alternative answer but refused to give me my marks. Avoid this professor if possible.

Very poor lecturer. She over explains everything and makes things more complicated than they need to be. Puts students on the spot with a microphone. Overall pretty painful classes to sit through

First professor I've ever seen to spend 2 hours on a syllabus.

Her lectures are incoherent. She spells contract as "Kontract". Enough said

Very poor choice. She forces everyone to spend around $100 on the textbook she wrote but justifies it by saying she barely earns anything off it. She is very condescending towards students and talks down to those who ask questions. Puts students on the spot with questions in front of the whole class. And she teaches all the sections for this class!

This professor is pure garbage. She doesn't care about students, misses all her lectures and keeps changing the rules for midterm. She doesn't know what's happening in her OWN class and doesn't know how to teach at all. Worst professor I ever had, extremely disrespectful and tough grader.

By far the must frustrating class I have taken. The notes/slide shows are a complete mess and seem random, she will put french paragraphs in notes (for the english section classes). People were so outraged by the midterm that people starting yelling during the review and she was yelling back for them to chill, it was chaos. Horrible but unavoidable

Dont bother speaking because youre wrong, and I hope youre bilingual because her PowerPoints are. She has so many rules; getting your mark reviewed is harder than filing taxes. Oh, and you're wrong.

I reluctantly enrolled in this course only because my schedule opened up for another course. After seeing past reviews, I thought it might be better to wait until the course is offered by another prof. Unfortunately, despite the unanimous negative feedback, it doesn't look like Paula is going anytime soon.

I don't even know where to start. If you could avoid this prof, do it by all means. There is absolutely no clear grading criteria, it's a lotto. We haven't covered a single sample case study in class, yet her exams/assignments are based on case studies. You'll pass the course, but don't expect much. Good luck people!

I can't believe they're still letting her teach this summer. People should write to the dean about her.

Some of these tags need opposites to describe Paula: "Gives good feedback", "Respected", "Accessible outside class", "Inspirational", "Clear grading criteria", "Amazing lectures", "Caring".

Absolutely the worst prof I have ever had in university. Terrible at keeping her students up to date. Made students teach themselves the last lecture only a few days before the final. Made us by her textbook which she has literally copied word-for-word from common law that is widely available online. Avoid her at all costs.

Maybe if everyone boycotts the engineering law course the university will finally do something about her?

In short, skip her. She has no business with teaching whatsoever. Youre literally better off learning the course yourself, because she actually confuses you by teaching. To add to that, shes a strict strict grader; I would understand that if she was any good at teaching, but she offers the worst combination. Bad teaching and strict grading.

I mean, if you look at her rating, it pretty much tells the whole story. I dont know what else I can add to that. If I could give her a 0/5, believe me I would. Shes a 0 not just as a professor, but as a person. However, to be fair , shed be a strong 2/5 as a monkey, so its not entirely all bad. Tough grader, horrible teacher.

Where do I begin, really? Very disorganized. Her lectures are all over the place. I promise you you wont even know what shes talking about for that entire lecture. Upon receiving grades for our final exam, I realized about 75% of the entire failed, so she was forced to put some kind of curve to salvage her reputation as a horrible prof.

Awful, unfortunately ratemyprof doesnt allow 0 as rating. So I was unwillingly forced to change my 0 rating to a 1.0 rating.

Really bad at communication with students.

I've had my fair share of terrible professors but most of them just suck at teaching. Paula has a special way of making you hate her and also be absolutely garbage at teaching. She focuses more on her narcissistic accomplishments than actually teaching the class. Majority of her class content was blank. She gave everyone I know a B+ on the final.

Only taught two PowerPoints all semester (she posted an additional PowerPoint on Brightspace during COVID-19) because she cancelled most of the classes and spent most of the lectures she did teach talking about material unrelated to the course.

I've had profs who can't teach, but at least they wanted you to succeed, Paula on the other hand, can't teach and ACTIVELY TRIES to fail her students. Ethical questions aside about an ETHICS prof selling you THEIR textbook, or giving an entire class 75 for their final exam, Paula is an awful prof who fails to convey even the most basic of concepts.

gose too fast and wont right down the blanks she left in ppt

1) Ne prenez pas son cours en anglais si vous parlez français, elle est impossible à suivre tellement elle parle vite. 2)Elle ne ce souçi pas que les étudiants apprenent la matière. 3)Ne prenez tout simplement pas son cours.

In my opinion Paula Sauveur is not a good teacher at all, she doesn't seem to care about her students and speaks way too fast in class to be able to learn well. I don't recommend taking her course at all if it is a course you are not obligated to take. Avoid at all costs! P.S. online courses are not fun.

I didn't think she'd be as bad as the reviews said. I was wrong.

How does uOttawa still employ a professor who doesn't teach? Hiring Paula to teach a class is like hiring a whale to mow your lawn.

It's quite shocking how brutal Paula is at conveying the course material. She is extremely arrogant and her lectures are nonsensical. Only content provided was ppt with blanks where key terms should be, and rambling lectures to a backdrop of her scrolling through a word doc.

Has a mandatory textbook that she wrote. Goes WAY to fast and tells students to review recordings half the class cant access. 0/10 would not recommend.

Where do I start. Please stay away from her courses. Firstly, we HAVE to buy a $100 textbook which she literally copied from the Government of Ontario's documents available in public domain. Doesn't answer emails. Oh and the final? Doesn't matter if you hand in the best work or literally a blank paper - you will get a straight 75. Worst prof at UO.

I don't know why she cares about students talking to each other during the exam period if she's just going to give everyone a 75 anyways.

Paula thought the following exchange was "academic fraud" and called out two of her students (by name) in front of all their peers. Student 1: "Did anyone get their grade back for the ethics case?" Student 2: "Nope"

I'd like to write a fair review of Professor Sauveur that outlines the pros and cons of her marking strategy. Cons: you'll get a 75 on her exam even if you get everything correct Pros: you'll get a 75 on her exam even if you hand in a blank page

Very tough grader !

By far the worst professor at uOttawa. Lectures were not organized well and she is very rude towards her student. When I first read the reviews, I didn't think that she'd be this bad but after taking this class with her, I now know why people hate her so much. 0/10 would not recommend her for any course.

Refuses to teach, refuses to mark, refuses to answer student emails. She's easily the worst professor you'll ever have.

Paula is just as bad (or even worse) than the reviews say. She's rude, arrogant and a terrible lecturer. You have no idea how the exams will be structured and they're full of errors. Evaluations are also very subjective and harshly grade. It's extremely hard to get a great grade, but it's also hard to fail.

By far the worst professor I've seen in my 4 years at uOttawa.

Just Google her name and you'll learn all you need to know about her.

-no written assignment (only MC midterm) until 2 weeks AFTER deadline to drop -NO MIDTERM SOLn availablebut will reuse midterm for summer -cannot email her, only the TA -worst teacher ever -misses class for no apparent reasonhad us waiting for 30+ mins -forces participation in online class -HORRIBLE as a person/profwants you to fail AVOID

Worst professor I've ever had, and likely the worst professor at uOttawa. Terrible grader, will refuse to talk to you over email, and has no issue with insulting you straight to your face. She strives to make student's lives miserable. She makes you buy her textbook which is useless since you can find everything online. She is a terrible professor.

WORST PROF EVER. Get ready to HATE her. She will SKIP CLASS, REFUSE to ANSWER EMAIL, WORST GRADER, and will FORCE YOU TO BUY a totally USELESS textbook. She REFUSES to provide MIDTERM ANSWERS, and will do everything in her power to give you the LOWEST POSSIBLE MARK.

The worst of all

Paula gives little to no feedback for the exams and assignments. Refuses to be contacted directly by students. Mandatory textbook consists of information available online, basically a copy and paste.

She is the worst professor in the northern hemisphere. Extremely arrogant and unprofessional. Doesn't know how to translate her french notes to her english ones, leaving multiple mistakes behind. Also a genuinely bad person whose ego is so big she would have to buy 2 plane tickets to go anywhere. Absolutely disgusting display of teaching. AVOID

Just didn't teach and very disorganized. Made me never want to learn law again even though it could be an interesting subject...

Paula Sauveur is the reason 0/5 should exist on Rate My Professors. She is the worst professor the University of Ottawa has ever hired. Don't believe me, just google her name and look at the Reddit post.

If you're deciding which University to go to based on prof rating, I think this tells you all you need to know about uOttawa

Horrible professor. She is very high on herself, almost feels like she bullies the TA in a way. VERY rude in general, will not answer questions if the answer to them is even vaguely mentioned in her notes (which are lack lustre at best). Despite a large portion of the notes having blanks, she fills less than half of them and glosses over the rest.

One of the worst, rudest prof that you can't skip in uOttawa. Not accessible outside the class. If she force you to buy her useless $200 book, just ignore her broke asss, you can find all legislation or law online for free. A friendly reminder, don't attend the live lecture, she talk quick and don't repeat, go watch recording, make your life easy.

This lady has a big ego problem. She'll tell you that you absolutely HAVE to buy her book multiple times, this is a lie. Many people don't buy her book and pass her class. I bought the book, it's terrible quality (spine broke first week), it's split 50/50 down each page English and french, many sections are only in french. Just google the PEO act.

She is so bad she had to fake her OWN rmp rating last year. USELESS BOOK! DON'T BUY! 100% of her book can be found online. This monster MUST be fired. Our tuition & tax dollar cannot be used to fund her incompetent as*. She is the reason humanity's ethical standards deteriorate. CURRENT STUDENTS: Remember to downrate her on RMP and evaluation forms

Her course is not hard but is a considerably hostile environment in which she tries to strip students of as many marks as possible. Course material is very light though, don't buy the textbook: everything is online. Whatever you do, make sure she doesn't figure out your name; don't email or talk in class because she will make your life miserable.

Everyone has said everything there is to say about her. It's shocking she can have a job with how toxic a professor she is.

I'd say the only reason her rating is this high is because you're not allowed to give a rating of 0. Only graded on three things throughout the course. Tells you to buy her mandatory textbook that is identical to free laws found online. Disrespectful towards her TA's and very full of herself.

I'm baffled that the school charges us money for this. We only saw her 5 times during the semester, the rest were pre-recorded lectures that were over a year old, and one of those 5 times she delivered the lecture on her phone while out shopping in a store. I wish I could make this up. Worst prof in at the school hands down

Graded on a case study, a midterm, and a final (which is a quiz and a case study). If you have access to anything from past years she will copy paste, don't expect to see your midterm because she gatekeeps her content and treats her students like little thieves which is ironic since her textbook is highway robbery. Rude, unreasonable and lazy.

Honestly this is the worst teacher in history

Taking this as a remote class, she only live-lectured maybe about 4-5 times, and most of the time when she did do a live lecture it involved guest lectures lol. She doesn't like being asked questions and has an attitude. Course content is not difficult, the professor is the one who complicates things. Also, don't buy her textbook.

Rude, arrogant, easily irritable. Toxic, disrespectful, makes your life miserable. Does not create a nurturing educational environment for us to grow as students. I feel bad for her children *IF* she has any.

Lots of students like to complain about Aziz on the subreddit but Paula is on a whole other level. Refuses to answer emails, teach, or mark. I am shocked how she can do literally no work and not be terminated 5 years ago. Future engineering law students should boycott the class. Maybe low attendance will finally get the university to do something.

I really appreciated how she opened home studies and options to FaceTime her for extra office hours. We had a few study sessions at her house. She wanted us to share her address and phone number for all students: 124 Rue de Roquebrune in Gatineau & 1-819-712-7219.

Awful. Sadly there's no way out of taking her class for most students in eng. she teaches the most useless class of your degree but makes it seem like the most important.

Holy she sucks, she sounds like she has no idea what she's talking about. She goes through slides without even giving you the chance to read them and clearly doesn't care about the students academic progress and is just there to ''get the job done''. She sucks

Before I had to take the class, I saw the reddit posts, and these reviews. Going into the class, my expectations were already low, and she did nothing that would make me disagree. Number one: Her book is a complete waste of money and riddled with errors. (Sadly she "took administrative leave" before I could get her to sign my copy).