Law students are excellent readers, and this skill will lay the foundation for success throughout life. However, reading in law school requires more precision than previous educational activities. This lesson will deepen individuals reading skills specifically within the context of legal reading.
Keynote Session Description: Progress in artificial intelligence has accelerated dramatically in recent years. Neural nets have enabled increasingly powerful language models that are now showing human-level ability to read and write text. The most powerful language model, GPT-4, can write computer code, is fluent in almost every language, and is able to ace the bar exam. Attorneys are already applying language models in ways both good and bad. This keynote will focus on the evolution of large language models, how they are impacting the legal profession today, and where things may be going next.
Much has been made recently about AI, especially in the legal education/technology community. Come and learn for yourself what is really going on. Register today for CALIcon23, June 15-16, at Penn Carey Law in Philadelphia.
Announcing the CALIcon23 agenda! It is by far one of the most technological education sessions that you could apply in your law school class.
As you start law school, you might notice that reading cases is rather difficult. This lesson will explain why reading cases feels so hard, and give you tips on how to make things slightly easier.
Have you ever compared your essay to a sample answer, or one with a higher grade, and wondered what was different about yours? Especially if you seemed to use all the correct law? It's likely that you aren't using your facts enough!
This lesson will explain why it's important that you use your facts, as well as help you to do just that!
What is CALIcon?
The CALIcon Conference, also known as The Conference for Law School Computing®, is one of the longest-running legal education conferences in the United States. The conference brings together law school faculty, librarians, IT professionals, and administrators to share ideas, innovations, experiences, and best practices in legal education/technology that you can use at your law school. It is eclectic, engaging, and fun.
For 2023 we are planning the conference as an in-person, live event. We will gather at Penn Carey Law School in Philadelphia PA on Thursday and Friday, June 15 - 16, as well as providing a live stream of the full conference. We're combining the formula that we've used the past couple of years with our tried and true structure that worked well for us prior to 2020. This means that we're going to have 60-minute long sessions with thirty-minute breaks between sessions. Each session will consist of up to 3 15-minute talks with 15 minutes for discussion. We're also accepting 30 and 45-minute-long proposals to accommodate more in-depth talks and panels.
This lesson will help you master legal citations using the Texas Rules of Form, Fifteenth Edition (hereinafter “The Greenbook"), particularly with respect to specific rules of citation for your briefs and legal memoranda. The Greenbook at times refers to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, Twenty First Edition (hereinafter “The Bluebook”), so you may also want to have that handy for use during this lesson.
This lesson is an overview of how to research international patent law. It will cover both how to find sources of patent laws for countries besides the United States, and how to find sources of multi-national laws, such as treaties and other agreements, that govern the enforcement and regulation of patents between countries.