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U of Minnesota Releases “Cultivating Change in the Academy”, Highlights Future of the Book

Posted Tue, 07/31/2012 - 10:35am by Elmer Masters

This collection of 50+ chapters showcases a sampling of academic technology projects underway across the University of Minnesota, projects that we hope inspire other faculty and staff to consider, utilize, or perhaps even develop new solutions that have the potential to make their efforts more responsive, nimble, efficient, effective, and far-reaching. Our hope is to stimulate discussion about what’s possible as well as generate new vision and academic technology direction. The work underway is most certainly innovative, imaginative, creative, collaborative, and dynamic.

Farewell to Austin Groothuis

Posted Thu, 07/19/2012 - 4:52pm by Elmer Masters

First of all, it’s pronounced “GREAT-house”, not “grue-THEW-ee-us”.

How Law Schools Could Save Students $150 Million

Posted Wed, 07/18/2012 - 10:05am by John Mayer

There are over 140,000* law students in the 201 ABA accredited law schools in the US. According to the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), higher education students spend an average of $1100 per year on books.

#CALIcon12 Wrap-Up

Posted Tue, 06/26/2012 - 12:55pm by Elmer Masters

John welcomed attendees as a Lego minifig. He’s promised to outdo this stunt in 2013.

We’d like to thank Thomas Jefferson School of Law, sponsors, speakers, and especially attendees for making the 2012 CALI Conference for Law School Computing such a success!

CALI Annual Report & Infographic (A Message from John)

Posted Wed, 06/13/2012 - 10:44am by Elmer Masters

The 2011-2012 school year was a landmark year at CALI. I am, of course, thinking of the fact that we were founded 30 years ago, but 2012 is significant in more ways than an anniversary that happens to end with a zero. This year CALI:

900 CALI Lessons and Counting

Posted Mon, 06/04/2012 - 5:10pm by Elmer Masters

We just published our 900th CALI Lesson on cali.org! The 900th lesson was Professor Steve Bradford’s “Inventory and the Cost of Goods Sold.” This is a true milestone for CALI. Congratulations to Professor Bradford on another great lesson, and to each of our lesson authors.

Learn to Make Ebooks at CALIcon12

Posted Fri, 06/01/2012 - 12:18pm by Austin Groothuis

It’s getting easier to publish ebooks using freely available tools like Sigil and Calibre. What’s this have to do with your law school? Think open, ebook versions of your law reviews, journals, or custom course materials. All published in-house and at little cost. Review workshop requirements and reserve your spot.

CALI partnering with Chicago-Kent for pilot law school clinics program

Posted Mon, 05/14/2012 - 3:45pm by Elmer Masters

We at CALI are very excited Chicago-Kent’s Cyber Clinics pilot project.

Adopt free, open legal ed materials.

Posted Mon, 05/07/2012 - 1:20pm by Elmer Masters

We’re asking legal educators to consider adopting free, open eLangdell books and supplements for their Summer or Fall classes.

Consider the advantages of free, open education materials:

A Book Is A Book And Other Thoughts On Our Webby Future

Posted Mon, 04/16/2012 - 2:00pm by Elmer Masters

In February I wrote that every book is a website and we need to embrace the webiness of books. This led to some good discussion about the nature of books generally and casebooks in particular and about the nature of websites. The discussion helped clarify a couple of things in my mind.

More to eLangdell than the “e:” How Legal Educators Can Use & Adopt Our Books.

Posted Wed, 04/11/2012 - 6:34pm by Austin Groothuis

So tell the truth.

Some of you looked briefly at eLangdell and dismissed it as an e-book project...

Keynote Speakers for CALI Conference Announced

Posted Mon, 04/09/2012 - 4:06pm by Elmer Masters

The CALI Conference for Law School Computing’s agenda is starting to round out nicely. You can now review some of our accepted sessions, and today we’re very excited to announce our keynote speakers:

The Future of The (Case)Book Is The Web

Posted Thu, 02/16/2012 - 10:19pm by Elmer Masters

Recently there has been an explosion of advances in the ebook arena. New tools, new standards and formats, and new platforms seem to be coming out every day. The rush to get books into an “e” format is on, but does it make a real difference?

You can still join our free online course, Topics in Digital Law Practice!

Posted Wed, 02/15/2012 - 5:33pm by Austin Groothuis

There’s still time to join our free online course, Topics in Digital Law Practice.

If you haven’t yet, register for the course and catch up by watching video of last week’s class (below).

Then join us live Friday at 2pm Eastern for special guest Marc Lauritsen‘s class on Document Automation.

2012 CALI Member Meeting

Posted Mon, 02/13/2012 - 7:18pm by Austin Groothuis

Want to know what we’re up to here at CALI? John Mayer, our Executive Director, gave his annual “State of CALI Address” during the 2012 CALI Member Meeting at the AALS Annual Conference in January. You can watch it here: