It's not too early to start planning for final exams. CALI has several lessons and podcasts focused on exam taking.  

The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) has received a grant from AccessLex Institute® to extend the CALI Law School Success Fellowship. The goal of the Fellowship is to further the reach of Academic Success Professionals and help law students become better learners in the unique law school environment. The grant will produce 12 CALI Lessons, 12 video walkthroughs of CALI Lessons that expand on the material, and 20 podcasts, in a collaborative process by the Fellows. These materials will be cross-reviewed by the Fellows, internally reviewed by experienced CALI staff, and anonymously reviewed by the CALI Editorial Board. When complete, these materials will be published on the CALI website and made available to over 100,000 law students to help them succeed in law school and to thousands of pre-law students contemplating a career in law.

"AccessLex is a real force of good change in legal education. We are delighted to be working with them again on these innovative learning materials that could help all law students in their studies," says John Mayer, Executive Director, CALI.

The CALI Law School Success Fellowship produced 35 law school success lessons representing 11% of all CALI Lesson runs since August 2020.

Introducing the Law School Success Fellows:

Professor Steven Foster 
Oklahoma City University School of Law
Instructor of Law and Director of Academic Achievement
Bio

Nicole Lefton
Hofstra University Maurice A. Deane School of Law
Assistant Professor of Law
Bio

Laura Mott 
City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law
Director, Academic Skills Center for Evening 1L Program
Bio

Professor Melissa Hale
Loyola Chicago School of Law
Director of Academic Success and Bar Programs
Bio

Contact: 

Deb Quentel
Director of Curriculum Development and Associate Counsel
The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI)
dquentel@cali.org
312-906-5353

About CALI®:

The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, also known as CALI, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit consortium of mostly US law schools that conducts applied research and development in the area of computer-mediated legal education. The organization is best known in law schools for CALI Lessons, online interactive tutorials in legal subjects, and CALI Excellence for the Future Awards (CALI Awards), given to the highest scorer in a law school course at many CALI member law schools. Nearly every US law school is a member of CALI.

CALI was incorporated in 1982 in the state of Minnesota by the University of Minnesota Law School and Harvard Law School.  Learn more.

About AccessLex Institute®:

Nonprofit AccessLex Institute® is committed to helping talented, purpose-driven students find their path from aspiring lawyer to fulfilled professional. In partnership with its nearly 200 nonprofit and state-affiliated, ABA-approved member law schools, improving access and positively influencing legal education have been at the heart of the organization's mission since 1983. Learn more.

The LLNE Fall 2021 meeting will focus on the intersection of technology and access to justice and explore ways that technology can help to bridge the justice gap. The day will begin with speakers from the National Center for State Courts defining the justice gap and discussing existing approaches to address it. The following panels will explore ways technology can improve access to legal assistance, information, and institutions. Speakers from technology firms, nonprofits, law firms, law schools, courts, and bar associations will discuss their initiatives and how they have used technology to address an identified need. 

Speaking Opportunity:

LessonLink is a CALI tool that allows faculty members to view student scores, completion rates and usage of CALI lessons. Faculty can create a LessonLink with a push of the button - the system then creates a unique web address (or URL) for existing CALI lessons and groups the LessonLinks on a single webpage by the course that they are created for. Each course can have an unlimited number of LessonLinks in an unlimited number of CALI topics.

CALI Lessons are a great way to learn the law for law students. In this short talk, CALI's Executive Director, John Mayer, talks about CALI Lessons, free casebook, and CALI's A2J Author (access to justice) project.

This revised edition of a basic income tax text is for the 2021-2022 academic year. This edition incorporates the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and highlights congressional responses to COVID. It is intended to be a readable text, suitable for a three-hour course for a class comprised of law students with widely different backgrounds. The text integrates several of the CALI drills that Professor James Edward Maule (Villanova University) prepared.

187,375 Words, 565 Pages in PDF
 

The purpose of bioethics is to put forth ethically acceptable solutions to the problems posed by modern medicine. The actions of healthcare providers are governed by the four principles of bioethics: autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice. The principles of bioethics are directly connected to legal mandates. This book is designed to be used to teach a 2 or 3 credit biomedical ethics and law course or seminar. The number of biomedical ethics issues are vast and beyond the scope of this book. In this book, there will be an examination of the most common duties and rights that arise from the healthcare provider-patient relationship. 

Tort Law: A 21^st-Century Approach (TL21C) introduces students to tort law with a set of cases and methods that have been updated for 21st-century legal education. Pairing classic cases with a host of recent, lesser-known cases, the casebook deliberately provides opportunities to engage with issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, ability, class as well as fundamental questions of civil justice. The book’s introduction diverges from the standard method of teaching torts, by framing the subject matter in terms of the three primary regimes of tort law—negligence, strict liability and the intentional torts—and by setting the stakes for questions of policy from the outset.

This casebook offers a series of 7 modules, each with numerous “Check Your Understanding” questions that permit students to answer questions that help them assess and expand upon their learning in real-time. These and a number of “Socratic Scripts” may also facilitate online or “hybrid” learning at a moment in which innovative approaches to teaching are more in demand or indeed, necessary.