As your students start law school, they might notice that reading cases is rather difficult. This lesson will explain why reading cases feels so hard and give your students tips on how to make things slightly easier.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of the lesson, students will be able to:
1. Summarize why reading cases is different from what you've done before.
2. Recognize the difference between a primary and secondary source.
3. Demonstrate how to read case law.

There's still time to save your seat at the CALIcon23 Conference, held June 15-16 at Penn Carey Law in Philadelphia. The conference aims to provide a unique environment for everyone to share ideas, innovations, experiences, and best practices for application in law school classrooms to engage law students with tech.

AI is changing how law professors teach, meaning you need to get on board.

Are you a law professor? Are you interested in staying relevant in your field?

We have just the event for you: CALIcon23, where we'll talk about how AI impacts how we teach law.

CALIcon23 will occur on June 15-16, 2023, at Penn Carey Law School in Philadelphia, PA. It's an event that brings legal professionals from around the country to provide unique opportunities for networking and professional development. Join us!

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.

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.