CALI Lessons: A Guidebook for Undergraduate Legal Studies & Paralegal Faculty

Edited by Mary Hatfield Lowe, this guide is written as a Teacher's Manual to assist undergraduate legal studies and paralegal faculty in selecting CALI lessons appropriate for their courses. This guide includes Lowe's review of over 50 CALI lessons and tables suggesting which of these lessons are best suited for several standard courses in the legal studies and paralegal curriculum. Lowe's rubric for reviewing the lessons is included.

Call for Nominations for the CALI Board of Directors

The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) is seeking nominations of qualified and enthusiastic individuals to fill vacant positions on its Board of Directors. If you know of someone who would like to contribute to the research and development, strategic planning and governance of CALI, then consider nominating them for the CALI Board of Directors.

Please clear it with the person first to make sure they WANT to be nominated. Self-nominations are acceptable.  It helps our process if the nominee provides some background on their interest in CALI’s mission and activities.

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The Ethics of Tax Lawyering, Third Edition

This chapter’s objective is to raise interesting tax ethics issues in practical contexts. There are 42 notes and questions to prompt and guide discussions, and primary source materials to inform the discussions (e.g., cases, IRC provisions, and Circular 230 excerpts).

17,067 Words, 63 Pages in PDF

Published 2015

This book is also available from CALI's Vitalsource storefront.  Click Here to purchase the Vitalsource edition.

Author of the Week: Wilson Freyermuth

Professor Freyermuth is the John D. Lawson Professor of Law and a Curators' Teaching Professor at the University of Missouri. He received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1984, and a J.D. with highest honors from the Duke University School of Law in 1987. After clerking with the Honorable John D. Butzner, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, VA, Prof. Freyermuth worked from 1988-1991 as an associate with the Raleigh, NC office of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice. He has taught as a visitor at Duke, the University of North Carolina, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of Denver. He arrived at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1992 and teaches Property, Secured Transactions, Real Estate Transactions and Finance, and Real Estate Leasing.
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Book of the Week: Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

Criminal procedure deals with the set of rules governing the series of proceedings through which the government enforces substantive criminal law. This series of Federal Rules books, consisting of the Federal Rules of Evidence, Criminal Procedure and Civil Procedure, are powered by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School, and created in partnership with The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI).
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