The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction is pleased to announce that Alex Zhang has become our newest CALI Author.  She brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise as the Assistant Dean for Legal Information Services and Professor of Practice at the Washington and Lee University School of Law. Prior to W&L, Alex was the Head of Public Services and Lecturer in Law at Stanford University Law School. She received a B.A. in Philosophy and a Chinese Law Certificate from Nanjing University, China and a M.A. in Philosophy from Tulane University. She attended the University of Kansas Law School earning her J.D. with a certificate in International Trade and Finance Law in 2006. She also received a M.S.I from the University of Michigan, School of Information in 2009. Alex taught Advanced Legal Research at both Stanford Law School and the University of Michigan Law School.

Her current lesson is "Michigan Legal Research: Secondary Resources."

Final exams will be here in no time. Don't wait until the last minute to make the most of your registration with CALI!  We offer you a variety of resources for free as part of your school's membership to help you succeed.

CALI will be exhibiting at the American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, held in Washington, DC, from January 2-5, 2020.  Make your plans to stop by Booth #403 to check out the newest resources empowering law faculty.

Whether distance education and other modern learning tools work in legal education is no longer in question. Outcomes-oriented design, integral formative and summative assessment, online simulations, asynchronous learning, and other hallmarks of distance education have demonstrated efficacy in law teaching for 20 years (though a robust empirical research agenda has yet to develop.) The interesting questions now center around how and where these modern learning tools and disciplines can be used to best advantage.

Expertise now abounds among the academy, and this conference aims to collect and share it. The ABA has opened up legal education to a full year of online learning, and perhaps more significantly, to as much as a third of the first year.  Bringing together leaders of legal education and law school innovation, “Online & Hybrid Learning Pedagogy: Toward Defining Best Practices in Legal Education” will nurture the emerging consensus on best practices in a new era of change and challenge in legal education. 

For faculty looking to engage distracted students, there’s no better place to come and learn. For deans and administrators considering online learning offerings at their schools, and who are looking to encourage stronger academic performance and better outcomes for a new generation of law students, the tools discussed at this conference will help to improve evaluation and development of student capacities.  For the practice minded, experts on classroom and hybrid online applications will critically examine questions of balance, when live classrooms work best, and where teaching is better done in a hybrid or fully online learning environment.

Welcome to law school.  This should be a proud moment in your life.  Your hard work and dedication has gotten you

here today, the first phase of becoming a lawyer.

As you embark upon this adventure, there will be times when it seems a bit overwhelming.  You will be faced with

the pressure to stay competitive, the burden of time management for studying, and the uncertainty of grasping

your courses' learning outcomes.

Don't worry, CALI is here!  We have a 30-year track record providing legal education resources to help law

students succeed.

Subject Area Offerings for 1Ls

• Civil Procedure
• Constitutional Law
• Contracts
• Criminal Law
• Legal Concepts and Skills
• Legal Research
• Legal Writing
• Property Law
• Torts

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The 5 latest Creative Commons licensed eLangdell^® Press casebooks are:

• Beau Steenken & Tina Brooks, Sources of American Law: an Introduction to Legal Research, Fourth Edition, Published by CALI eLangdell Press. Available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0.
• John Fabian Witt, Torts and Regulation: Cases, Principles, and Institutions, Published by CALI eLangdell Press. Available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 License.
• William Kratzke, Basic Income Tax 2019-2020 Edition, Published by CALI eLangdell Press. Available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 License.
• John Fabian Witt & Karen M. Tani, Torts: Cases, Principles, and Institutions, Fourth Edition, Published by CALI eLangdell Press. Available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 License.
• Val Ricks, The Story of Contract Law: Formation, Third Edition, Published by CALI eLangdell Press. Available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 License.

CALI’s eLangdell® Press publishes free casebooks and book chapters authored by law faculty.  All are available under a Creative Commons license so that faculty and students can use and remix the materials to suit their educational needs.

This book is the 7th edition of a basic income tax text. This edition incorporates the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. 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.

Stop by the CALI booth (#328) in the AALL 2019 exhibit hall to check out the demos on:

• QuizWright® - a web app that lets law faculty write individual MC, T/F, Y/N questions, save the questions in a personal question bank, bundle the questions into quizzes, and uses CALI AutoPublish to publish the quizzes to the CALI website where students take the quizzes as formative assessments either live in class or as homework.
• A2J Author® - A software tool that delivers greater access to justice for self-represented litigants by enabling non-technical authors from the courts, clerk's offices, legal service programs, and law schools to rapidly build and implement customer-friendly web-based interfaces for document assembly.
• CALI Lessons - are 1000+ interactive tutorials in 30+ areas of the law written (and peer-reviewed) by law faculty and constantly kept up to date.  Combined with CALI LessonLink and CALI LessonLive, professors will have the ability to track students' usage and scores in real-time.
  

The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) announces the formation of the Law School and Bar Exam Study Skills Fellowship. The Fellowship is comprised of members of the academic success community from U.S. law schools. The goal of the Fellowship is to author CALI lessons to develop students’ critical-thinking skills. The materials will be peer-reviewed by the fellowship team and the CALI Editorial Board. Everyone at CALI member law schools will have access to these materials when they are published in late 2019.