PEOPLE UNEASY ABOUT Professor-Student Relationships. As a faculty brat and long-time faculty member, my impression is that those usually don’t work out. But there are exceptions: My old law professor Charlie Black married one of his students, who herself went on to become dean of Columbia Law School. It was a long and close union, and a rule that would have blocked it would have been a bad thing. But maybe it’s just something about Columbia Law School. Or maybe it’s just the whole Johnny Depp thing in a different setting. . . .