Author of the Week: Professor Ruthann Robson

Ruthann Robson, is Professor of Law & University Distinguished Professor. She is the author of Dressing Constitutionally: Hierarchy, Sexuality, and Democracy (2013), as well as the books Sappho Goes to Law School (1998); Gay Men, Lesbians, and the Law (1996); and Lesbian (Out)Law: Survival Under the Rule of Law (1992), and the editor of the three volume set, International Library of Essays in Sexuality & Law (2011). She is a frequent commentator on constitutional and sexuality issues and the co-editor of the Constitutional Law Professors Blog. She is one of the 26 professors selected for inclusion in What the Best Law Teachers Do (Harvard University Press, 2013).

Author of the Week: Professor Steven Bradford

Professor Bradford teaches primarily securities regulation and business associations courses. He is the co-author of an introductory book on accounting, Basic Accounting Principles for Lawyers and numerous articles on securities regulation and regulatory exemptions. He also has a strong interest in legal humor and has authored several humorous law review articles, some of them intentionally humorous. Professor Bradford is a member of the CALI Editorial Board, and was a CALI Business Organizations fellow. Professor Bradford received his B.S. degree (summa cum laude) from Utah State in 1978, and a M.P.P. and J.D. (magna cum laude) from Harvard University in 1982. Prior to teaching at Nebraska, he worked for the law firm of Jenkens & Gilchrist in Dallas.

Author of the Week: Professor Norm Garland

Professor Garland received a B.S.B.A. in Accounting in 1961 from Northwestern University; a J.D., cum laude, 1964, from Northwestern University; an LL.M., in Trial Advocacy, 1965, from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was an E. Barrett Prettyman Legal Intern Fellow. He is a member of the California, Illinois, and District of Columbia Bars.

Professor Garland practiced trial law for ten years primarily as a defense attorney before he entered legal education as an assistant professor and assistant dean of admissions for Northwestern University School of Law. He came to Southwestern in 1975 to help design and implement the S.C.A.L.E. program, where he currently teaches Evidence and Criminal Procedure.

In 1998, Professor Garland received "The West Education Network Innovation in Teaching Award" from West Group. Professor Garland was chosen as a 1999-2000 CALI Fellow. As a Fellow, he was part of CALI's pilot applied research effort to create quality computer-based learning materials in legal education. In September of 1999, Professor Garland's Overview of Relevance and Hearsay: A Nine Step Analytical Guide, was given front page billing on the Lexis Lawschool web page. Professor Garland is the author of a multimedia compact disc, Evidence Lecture Slides, for use in conjunction with Waltz and Park, Evidence (9th ed. 1999), which are available in Microsoft Powerpoint and Corel Presentations formats.

During his free time, Professor Garland alternates between eating the gourmet foods he enjoys cooking, attempting to engage in the excessive aerobic exercise of his youth, and feeding his computer habit.

Distance Learning in Legal Education: Design, Delivery and Recommended Practices

This paper was written as a collaborative project by the Working Group on Distance Education in Legal Education. Contributors included law faculty, administrators, instructional designers, and law school librarians.

The materials are intended to provide law schools and interested parties with a summary of distance learning opportunities, tools, and considerations. The paper presents three fundamental questions and attempts to provide a discussion of each.

1. How should a law school implement distance education?

Author of the Week: Professor Cynthia Ho

Professor Ho teaches and writes in the area of intellectual property as well as civil procedure. She is the author of Questions & Answers: Patent Law, which provides multiple choice and short-answer questions on patent law to help students reinforce their understanding. She has also written a number of articles about domestic and international issues involving patents.

Professor Ho received her B.A from Boston University in 1990 and a J.D. (with honors) from Duke Law School in 1993. Prior to teaching at Loyola, she worked at Fish & Neave, a boutique IP firm. Her practice included patent litigation and prosecution. She is also a registered member of the patent bar.

Author of the Week: Liz McCurry Johnson

Liz McCurry Johnson serves as a Reference Librarian, and an Instructor of Legal Research (for the L.L.M. Program) at Wake Forest University School of Law. Additionally, she teaches two seminar courses, Health and Medical Research for Lawyers, and Scholarly Writing for International Lawyers. She is licensed to practice law in North Carolina. She is also an active member in the North Carolina Bar Association, Southeastern Chapter of American Association of Law Libraries, and American Association of Law Libraries.

ImageSoft Announces Partnership with the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction - Developers of A2J Author

ImageSoft, Inc., provider of the JusticeTech® suite of solutions for a paperless court, today announced it has entered into a partnership with the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI). CALI is a non-profit consortium of law schools dedicated to helping improve access to justice and use of technology in legal education.

CALI developed A2J Author, a cloud-based tool that helps self-representing litigants (SRLs) to easily complete and print documents in preparation for filing. A2J Author provides Guided Interviews® which distill complex legal instructions into an easy to understand format in order to enable SRLs to navigate through complex court processes and procedures.

“Partnering with CALI to help self-representing litigants maneuver through the courts is a logical extension of our JusticeTech platform,” said ImageSoft President Scott Bade. “ImageSoft and CALI leverage technology to help make the court system easier-to-navigate and operate for SRLs, court staff, and the public served by attorneys.” 

“We are delighted to make A2J Author more readily available to the large population of self-represented litigants through our association with ImageSoft’s JusticeTech platform,” stated CALI’s Executive Director John Mayer. “Our mission is to provide assistance to the layperson to participate in the judicial system. Every encounter with the judicial system does not require legal representation from an attorney. A2J Author makes it possible for the layperson to effectively resolve some legal issues by providing access to court forms and processes in self representing or unbundled representation situations.”

JusticeTech Solution Suite. The Paperless Court People.

About ImageSoft, Inc. 
ImageSoft, Inc. provides document and process management solutions to automate, streamline and improve workplace operations. Specializing with courts and government, ImageSoft has developed a tightly integrated suite of technologies called JusticeTech™ that provide eFiling, CMS, eBench and ECM (enterprise content management) to streamline case flow processing for both civil and criminal court cases. Since 1996, ImageSoft technology and workflow solutions have increased productivity, reduced operating costs and saved time and money for customers in government and the healthcare and insurance industries. ImageSoft serves customers in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. For more information about JusticeTech, visit the website at http://www.justicetech.com

For information about the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, visit the website at http://www.cali.org. Information about the Access to Justice Author can be found at http://www.a2j.org.

Author of the Week: Professor B. Glenn George

Professor George received her BA from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1975 and her J.D. from Harvard in 1978. She was in private practice with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles 1978-83. She has taught at the College of William and Mary (1983-88); the University of Colorado (1988-99); the University of N.C. at Chapel Hill, 1999-present. She has also served as the Associate Vice President for Human Relations and Risk Management (University of Colorado, Office of the President, 1996-99) and Interim General Counsel, UNC-CH, 2003-04.

Author of the Week: Holly Lakatos

Holly Lakatos (M.L.S.) is the law librarian at the California Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District. She formerly held positions as Director of Public Services at the Downtown Campus Library at the Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent College of Law) and Access Services Librarian at Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law.

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