The CALI website will be unavailable beginning Saturday December 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM ET continuing through no later than 8:00 AM ET on Tuesday December 30, 2025
We are going to make necessary and critical updates to our systems during this timeframe. While we anticipate using only a portion of the time, members should be prepared for the site being offline for the full 3 days. During this maintenance window www.cali.org and other sites including Classcaster, Lawbooks, and our authoring systems will be unavailable.
Joe Custer is Director of the law school's Judge Ben C. Green Law Library, and he teaches Advanced Legal Research and Electronic Discovery. His scholarship has primarily been in the areas of legal research, administration and issues pertaining to historical social justice.
Custer joined Case Western Reserve in 2015 after serving five years as Director of the Vince C. Immel Law Library and as a faculty member at the University of Saint Louis School of Law. He began his career in higher education as a tenured member of the faculty at the University of Kansas School of Law, where he worked for 15 years.
Before academia, Custer was The Director of Information Services/Attorney at Gage & Tucker in Kansas City, Missouri. He is a member of the Supreme Court of the United States and state of Missouri bars. In addition to his JD, Custer holds a Master’s in Library and Informational Science and a Master’s in Business Administration.