I am delighted to be invited to the AALL Vendor Colloquium next week as a “stakeholder”. I have a growing sense of unease about the relationship between legal information vendors and the law libraries, law students and law schools. This meeting has challenged me to articulate those thoughts. [Read on for more...]
We're trying out a fun, new idea for law libraries: LibTour - a virtual audio tour of law libraries. One thing about LibTour: we've QR Coded each of the audio files (QR codes are becoming a popular way for folks to access information and data from smartphones, on the spot). Read on for more...
Now that we've sent notice to schools and it has shown up on the blogs, we want to acknowledge here that, yes, CALI member dues for law schools will be going up over the next two years. We plan to deliver more content to you, our members, with this increased contribution. Most notably: five eLangdell casebooks a year and more CALI lessons. We want the changes that lie ahead to be as transparent as possible. So please contact us with feedback and questions. Read on for more details and reasoning in our Executive Director's letter to membership.
We're now accepting session proposals for the 21st Annual Conference for Law School Computing at Marquette University Law School, June 23-25, 2011. The theme for this year's conference is...UNBOUND (help decide the colors). Read the full call for speakers from CALI Executive Director, John Mayer...
We have this summer's CALI Conference theme: "UNBOUND." Why did we choose UNBOUND? Read more to find out.
A new chapter is available in eLangdell, our open casebook initiative: The Ethics of Tax Lawyering by Michael Hatfield. Faculty can adopt it, and students can use it, for free in a bunch of different formats: on iPads, Kindles, and even as a PDF for easy printing. There is a faculty version with notes available.
This lesson is an introduction to the basics of dangerous dog laws and is the first part in a series of three lessons that examines their interaction with the Fourteenth Amendment's procedural due process requirement. This lesson does not require any prior knowledge of animal laws or dangerous dog laws. While some general knowledge of due process might be helpful, it is not necessary or required.
The Law School Tech Talk podcast will be talking with John Mayer, our Executive Director, live on Monday, 1/31 at Noon EST/11 CDT. He'll be talking about eLangdell - our electronic casebook initiative - and this summer's CALI conference, among other CALI projects. Attending the live broadcast is free.
We've finally dived head first into 2006 and made all CALI video and past CALI webinars available on the most popular video site on the planet. YouTube granted us a nonprofit account, which means no time limits (time limits were why we chose blip.tv as our original video host). So you can subscribe and peruse the archives on CALI's YouTube channel.
We're about to publish casebooks that are free for law students and law professors to use on multiple formats (iPad, Kindle, PDF, etc.). AALS meeting attendees got a preview of some casebook chapters, and now you can, too, at elangdell.cali.org.
Your reaction to eLangdell has been overwhelmingly positive. Read some early write-ups and mentions here, here, and here. We especially like this part from The Librarian at Law. Read it below...
