Plenary

DATE: Saturday, June 28
TIME: 9-9.45am

SPEAKER:John Mayer, Executive Director, CALI

As this entire conference demonstrates, more and more faculty are using the computer to delivery legal education. From extending classroom discussions with e-mail, delivering materials via the Web, authoring computer-based instruction or electronic casebooks or using the computer as an electronic chalkboard inside the classroom, faculty are "voting" on computer-integrated legal education.

At the same time, librarians are publishing rich datasets of primary and secondary materials for local and global constituencies. Technical staff are developing the infrastructure to deliver electronic materials and contributing their own innovations. Everyone’s getting into the act and it is more imperative than ever that we coordinate our efforts towards common goals.

TITLE: LEGAL EDUCATION AND CLE VIA THE WEB
DATE: Saturday, June 28
TRACK: WEB IN LEGAL EDUCATION
SPEAKER(S):
David Arfin, Practising Law Institute, Interactive Media Division, davidarfin@aol.com

SESSION DESCRIPTION:
Explore how technology-based products combine content with multimedia delivery systems. Presentation will include demonstration of the award-winning Interactive Courtroom on CD-ROM, as well as snippets from cle-Net, the premier on-line legal education program using RealAudio and Shockwave. We'll cover why these media provide powerful learning experiences as well as future opportunities for new product development.

TITLE: THE USE OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY IN SKILLS BASED COURSES
DATE: Saturday, June 28
TRACK: WEB IN LEGAL EDUCATION
SPEAKER(S):
Professor Jayne Zanglein, Texas Tech University School of Law, lcjaz@ttacs.ttu.edu

Professor Orin Slagle, Florida State University School of Law, oslagle@law.fsu.edu

SESSION DESCRIPTION:
Professor Zanglein will discuss a variety of easy-to-implement ideas for integration of computer technology into skills and writing classes. She has written an electronic textbook for an advanced contract drafting class in Folio Views. Students turned in assignments on disk and were edited in class. She has also used Powerpoint in a Negotiation class and plans to have students negotiate by e-mail with students throughout the world.

Professor Slagle will describe and demonstrate his use of the Web, Internet, email and chat technology in his Trial Practice Course. The next offering of the course will require the students to use an electronic casebook, Views and CALI exercises to test their understanding of the case book materials. In opposition to some stereotypes, Professor Slagle is a "graybeard who is a believer!"

TITLE: IT'S NOT THE SAME RESEARCH YOUR FATHER DID -- TEACHING ELECTRONIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL & MANAGEMENT IN A SIMULATED LAW FIRM
DATE: Saturday, June 28
TRACK: WEB IN LEGAL EDUCATION
SPEAKER(S):
Mary Grace Hune, College of William & Mary School of Law, mghune@lawlib.wm.edu

Brett Amdur, Villanova University School of Law, amdur@mail.law.vill.edu

SESSION DESCRIPTION:
How do we teach effective legal research in this age of multiple information formats? Mary Grace Hune will discuss the pilot research program she incorporated into the law school's Legal Skills simulated law firm environment. The project incorporated print research with electronic information retrieval using online databases, cd-rom, and the Web. Using FolioViews, she also showed the students how to use the computer to better manage the information retrieved by creating a "law firm" research database, case management system, and the beginnings of a litigation system.

As we all know, there has been much discussion lately about the merits of using electronic casebooks in law school. The debate, however, has typically failed to address the utility of using Folio Views as a means of allowing students to create *their own* electronic content. In this session, Professor Amdur will talk about a project that had this latter goal in mind. Specifically, last year all of Professor Amdur’s legal writing students were given laptop computers as part of a pilot program. In connection with this initiative, he developed a system for helping students use their laptops, or, more accurately, Folio Views, to organize the legal research they did on their appellate brief assignment. In this presentation, Professor Amdur will share his experiences with this prjoect. He will demonstrate the Folio Views "template" created to make it easier for students to create their own infobases. He will distribute the written instruction booklet. Finally, we'll discuss things like student reaction to the prjoect, the role that the system played in the learning process, how you can implement a similar project at your school, and other related issues. TITLE: REMOTE ACCESS - SOLUTIONS AND QUESTIONS
DATE: Sunday, June 29
TRACK: TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATIONS
SPEAKER(S):
Arlen Rauscholb, New York Law School, arauschkolb@nyls.edu

Eric Noble, University of California-Hastings College of Law, enoble@crl.com

SESSION DESCRIPTION:
NYLS is investigating strategies for supporting remote access (from home and when traveling) to E-mail, school-related info, and general Web access for faculty, students, and students. They have a modest dial-in setup now, but would like design for an appropriate user-to-modem ratio to support for E-mail service or a Web pass-through service. Mr. Rauschold and Mr. Noble will lead the discussion on these and other issues. Audience participation is heartily encouraged.

TITLE: LAW SCHOOL INTERNET/INTRANET APPLICATIONS USING MACROMEDIA'S BACKSTAGE
DATE: Saturday, June 28
TRACK: LAW LIBRARIES, COMPUTER CENTERS AND BEYOND
SPEAKER(S):
Scott Barnett, Quinnipiac College of Law, barnett@quinnipiac.edu

SESSION DESCRIPTION:
Learn how the Quinnipiac College School of Law is using Macromedia Backstage 2.0 to effectively manage their intranet and internet sites. Backstage is a full featured suite of applications for internet and intranet site management and development. The session will feature a demonstration of the WYSIWYG html editor, Backstage Designer, and the site management features built into the enterprise version of Backstage. Learn how Quinnipiac easily manages a growing internet site and how we are developing database connectivity on the intranet site that will allow students, staff, and faculty access to many forms, data, and information. This product is easy to use and makes management of large sites simple and straightforward.

TITLE: NON-CLASSROOM USES OF THE WEB TO SUPPORT LEGAL EDUCATION
DATE: Saturday, June 28
TRACK: LAW LIBRARIES, COMPUTER CENTERS AND BEYOND
SPEAKER(S):
Professor Brett Amdur, Villanova University School of Law, amdur@mail.law.vill.edu

Will Sadler, Chicago-Kent College of Law, wsadler@kentlaw.edu

SESSION DESCRIPTION:
Just as the Web presents new opportunities for educating law students, so, too, does it give us the ability to make law school administration more efficient and productive. Professor Amdur will describe two Web-based administrative projects implemented at Villanova last semester. First, all course evaluations are now conducted on-line, via the Web. Second, student elections were conducted electronically, via a Web-based form. Professor Amdur will talk about his experience in developing and implementing these Web-based systems, the benefits of the systems, the difficulties we encountered, and other related issues. We'll also talk about other opportunities for using the Web in law school administration, such as posting student grades, intake of law school admission information, career services commications, alumni contact, and others.

TITLE: EXAMS ON COMPUTERS
DATE: Saturday, June 28
TRACK: LAW LIBRARIES, COMPUTER CENTERS AND BEYOND
SPEAKER(S):
Mitch Davis, University of Oregon, mwdavis@law.uoregon.edu

Professor Deb Quentel, Chicago-Kent College of Law, dquentel@kentlaw.edu

Will Sadler, Chicago-Kent College of Law, wsadler@kentlaw.edu

Greg Sarab, Sarab Wasserman Associates

SESSION DESCRIPTION:
Mitch Davis has been involved with the development of the Digital Bluebook - a software program that securely administers law schools exams on Macintosh-based student notebook computers. He will discuss issues of security, administration and technical points regarding computer-based exam administration.

Last semester, Professor Quentel adminstered (perhaps for the first time) a law school exam over the Web. Professor Quentel will discuss some of the issues relating to delivering law school exams in such a fashion and she will report on student reaction. Will Sadler will cover some the technical aspects of the project and discuss security and future possibilities.

Greg Sarab is a partner in the firm Sarab Wasserman Associations which produces the Examinator product for delivering secure law school exams on Windows-based student computers. He will demonstrate and answer questions about Examinator.

TITLE: FAST NETWORKS, VIDEOCONFERENCING AND A/V OVER THE LOCAL NET
DATE: Saturday, June 28
TRACK: TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATIONS
SPEAKER(S):
Pablo Molina, St. Louis University School of Law, molina@wulaw.wustl.edu

SESSION DESCRIPTION:
Washington University in St. Louis recently completed the installation of a Fast Ethernet network in their new building with an FDDI Fiber Optic connection to the Internet. They are beginning to explore VideoConferencing, Video Servers, and advanced Audio Visual Projects using Gateway 2000 Destination stations. Learn more about this cutting edge system.

TITLE: EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT COMPUTER CABLING IN A LAW SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT, BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK
DATE: Saturday, June 28
TRACK: TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATIONS
SPEAKER(S):
John Heywood, American University School of Law, heywood@american.edu

SESSION DESCRIPTION:
Are you about to build a new law school? Install a new network? Or are you responsible for troubleshooting an existing network? Do RS-232 connections to printers or terminals drive you crazy? Then this presentation is for you. It is a primer on cabling for the law school networking person. We will cover the many flavors of network cabling, including ethernet (10Base-2, 10Base-5, 10Base-T, 100Base-T, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet), FDDI, token-ring, and ATM. We will peer into the data/telecommunication closet and see what should be there and how it is installed. We will also look at the bane of all geeks--the serial connection. We will look at how the original standard, RS-232, has been changed and adapted to do all kinds of things, and discover why the serial cable for one brand of printer won't necessarily work on a different brand of printer, much less a modem. After this presentation, you should be able to understand how cabling works, what the various parts of the cable plant do, and how to approach cable plant troubleshooting.

TITLE: REQUIRING STUDENTS TO PURCHASE COMPUTERS
DATE: Saturday, June 28
TRACK: TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATIONS
SPEAKER(S):
Professor James Duggan, Southern Illinois University School of Law, duggan@siu.edu

Ken Hirsh, Duke University School of Law, ken@law.faculty.duke.edu

Professor Steven R. Enman, School of Business Administration, Acadia University, steve.enman@acadiau.ca

SESSION DESCRIPTION:
Is your law school considering that students be required to purchase personal computers or notebooks? Requiring law students to purchase computers (notebook or desktop) is a big decision for any school. Several schools have taken the leap. Join the panel for a continuation of this discussion.

TITLE: EXPERIENCES WITH WINDOWS NT IN A LAW SCHOOL COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
DATE: Saturday, June 28
TRACK: TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATIONS
SPEAKER(S):
Bill Goodman, University of Illinois School of Law, bgoodman@law.uiuc.edu

SESSION DESCRIPTION:
The University of Illinois School of Law may have been the first law school to set up an institution-wide Windows NT network. They will discuss what they have learned during the past few years and offer suggestions on how to migrate to NT as well as reasons why you might want to migrate. They will also discuss the particular issue of handling a student printing charge-back system in an NT environment.

TITLE: 'Last Writes,' Blood Transfusions, and Assisted Suicide: Technology and the Future of the Law Review
DATE: Saturday, June 28
TRACK: E-PUBLISHING & COMPUTER-BASED INSTRUCTION
SPEAKER(S):
Ethan Katsh (Moderator) - Professor of Legal Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Bernard Hibbitts - Associate Dean for Communications and Information Technology and Professor of Law

Ronald Staudt - Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law, VP of New Business Development, LEXIS-NEXIS

Trotter Hardy, William and Mary School of Law, thardy@mail.wm.edu

SESSION DESCRIPTION:
Bernard Hibbitts' article "Last Writes? Reassessing the Law Review in the Age of Cyberspace" 71 N.Y.U.L. Rev. 615 or http://www.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/lastrev.htm has received considerable attention since it was first published on the Web. Dean Hibbitts begins his essay by suggesting that "The next decade could witness the end of the law review as we know it." How likely is this and what would a different electronic publishing role mean for law students, law faculty, law schools, and legal education? Should we lament (or perhaps celebrate) its passing or should we be working on its reincarnation?

Other Materials for Dean Hibbitts' Talk are: "Yesterday Once More: Skeptics, Scribes and the Demise of Law Reviews," http://www.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/akron.htm, and "JURIST: Law Professors on the Web," http://www.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/jurist.htm

TITLE: Authoring with CALI-IOLIS: Advice from the Trenches
DATE: Saturday, June 28
TRACK: E-PUBLISHING & COMPUTER-BASED INSTRUCTION
SPEAKER(S):
Professor Craig Callen, Mississippi College School of Law, callen@mc.edu

Professor Douglas McFarland, Hamline University School of Law, ddmcfarl@piper.hamline.edu

Marjorie McDiarmid, West Virginia University School of Law, mcdiarm@wvnvm.wvnet.edu

SESSION DESCRIPTION:
Three faculty will discuss their experience with CALI-IOLIS and demo some of the techniques they used in the production of their lessons. Professor Callen wrote a lesson in evidence called "The Concept of Hearsay", Professor McFarland wrote a torts lessons called "Negligence" and Professor McDiarmid authored a lesson called "Using ‘AND’ and ‘OR’".

TITLE: USING TOOLBOOK FOR CREATING LEGAL EDUCATION MATERIALS
DATE: Saturday, June 28
TRACK: E-PUBLISHING & COMPUTER-BASED INSTRUCTION
SPEAKER(S):
Professor Robert Lloyd, University of Tennessee School of Law

Professor William Andersen, University of Washington School of Law, ander@u.washington.edu

SESSION DESCRIPTION:
Two faculty members who have used Toolbook to create CALI lessons will discuss and demonstrate their materials.

TITLE: PRACTICAL MULTIMEDIA FOR LAW FACULTY
DATE: Saturday, June 28
TRACK: E-PUBLISHING & COMPUTER-BASED INSTRUCTION
SPEAKER(S):
Jane Kaufman Winn, Southern Methodist University School of Law, jwinn@post.cis.smu.edu

SESSION DESCRIPTION:
So you want to include multimedia in your e-book, CALI lesson or web-page? There are some things that you can do even if you don't have a masters degree in computer science or endless time to twiddle with software. Professor Winn will demo some quick and easy ways to add multimedia pizazz to your electronic publications and provide some down-to-earth advice not tainted with hype.