This podcast provides critical information that you should consider before you begin to study for the bar exam. There is a lot to think about even before you start your bar review, whether that’s meeting deadlines or preparing for hurdles. This podcast offers tips and considerations to help you navigate the process more smoothly.
In this podcast, four Academic Support professionals provide strategies for dealing with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic while in law school. The pandemic introduced even greater uncertainty into an already stressful environment. This podcast provides tools to succeed at law school during these unprecedented times.
Introducing an audiobook of the CALI eLangdell® book, Passing the Bar: A Quick Reference Guide For Today’s Law Student (1st Edition), by Allie Robbins, Former Director of Academic Skills, CUNY School of Law.
The audiobook covers topics such as:
Did you know YOU can hear a CALI Podcast faster than you pack for Spring Break? The podcasts are 10-minutes audio recordings of law professors explaining narrow legal topics in a straightforward manner.
Classroom discussion focuses heavily on cases. However, end of semester final exams don't normally reference cases. Many students don't know how cases operate on final exams. This lesson helps students understand where cases fit in a final exam answer and develop arguments based on cases. Students' exam arguments should improve using this lesson's techniques.
This lesson helps students understand where cases fit in a final exam answer and develop arguments based on cases. Students' exam arguments should improve using this lesson's techniques.
This lesson also includes video commentary from the author that expands on the material in the lesson.
This lesson will cover how to conduct legal research about the constitutions of individual states, online and in print.
Upon completion of the lesson, the student will be able to:
1. Locate specific provisions of state constitutions.
2. Find cases that interpret provisions of state constitutions by using annotated statutes.
3. Find secondary materials about state constitutions by using annotated statutes.
4. List features of the amendment process for state constitutions.
If you are just starting law school, or thinking about doing so soon, it can often feel like you need to learn a foreign language. Not to mention all the abbreviations, odd acronyms, and more! This lesson is designed to help you get started on mastering the brand new language that is the field of law.
For the past 31 years, The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) has hosted its own legal education conference called "CALIcon." The CALIcon conference is a two-day event held at newly renovated or built law schools. It draws an estimated 300 attendees: law faculty, law librarians, IT professionals, distance learning staff, and law school administrators. The goal of the conference is to provide a unique environment for everyone to come together to share ideas, innovations, experiences, and best practices for application in law school classrooms to engage law students with tech.
This book is designed to provide guidance to law students as they prepare to embark upon bar study. It covers topics such as how to make a study plan, strategies for successful bar study, tips for attacking each portion of the exam, taking care of your mental health, and preparing your loved ones for bar study. The book also provides weekly tips for use during the bar study period, and for exam day itself. The quick reference format allows students to easily access advice for whatever is most pressing to them at a particular moment.