This podcast discusses the importance of collegiality and professionalism in law school and in practice, and gives concrete tips on how to practice being more professional, cooperative, and respectful in your everyday interactions.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of the lesson, the student will be able to:
1. Recognize the importance of being collegial and professional in law school and in practice. 
2. Demonstrate professionalism and collegiality in interactions with colleagues and professors.
3. Integrate professionalism into written communications such as emails and social media.

At its most basic definition, the practice of law comprises conducting research to find relevant rules of law and then applying those rules to the specific set of circumstances faced by a client. However, in American law, the legal rules to be applied derive from myriad sources, complicating the process and making legal research different from other sorts of research. This text introduces first-year law students to the new kind of research required to study and to practice law. It seeks to demystify the art of legal research by following a “Source and Process” approach. First, the text introduces students to the major sources of American law and describes the forms the various authorities traditionally took in print. After establishing this base, the text proceeds to instruct students on the methods they will most likely use in practice, namely electronic research techniques and the consultation of secondary sources. Sources of Law incorporates screencasts currently hosted on YouTube that actively demonstrate the processes described in the static text. Finally, the text illustrates how the different pieces come together in the legal research process.

Criminal Law: An Integrated Approach is a new textbook designed for a first-year law school course in criminal law. It aims to present an accurate overview of American criminal law as it operates in the twenty-first century, with attention to racial disparities and other inequalities and to the features of criminal law that produce these inequalities. 

This is the Sixth Edition of Torts: Cases, Principles, and Institutions, a casebook for a one-semester torts course that carves out a distinctive niche in the field by focusing on the institutions and sociology of American tort law. The book retains many of the familiar features of the traditional casebook, including many of the classic cases. Like the best casebooks, it seeks to survey the theoretical principles underlying those cases. But it aims to supplement the cases and principles with editorial notes that focus students’ attention on the institutional features of our tort system, including features such as the pervasiveness of settlements, the significance of the market, the role of the plaintiff's bar, the importance of private insurance, the contingency fee, and the jury. These institutional arrangements are what make American tort law distinctive. They are how the substantive doctrines of tort law are translated into the practice of torts lawyers. And they are sociologically fascinating in their own right.

In this episode of LawNext, Mayer joins host Bob Ambrogi to discuss the history and mission of CALI and to share his thoughts on the use of technology to enhance legal education. They also talk about how and why A2J Author was developed and how it is used by courts and legal services organizations to help those who are without legal representation. Mayer also shares his thoughts on the future of innovation in law and on the future of CALI.

This webinar explains how CALI LessonLink can make formative assessment easier to administer and more effective. “Starting with the end in mind” means clarifying how learning outcomes relate to formative assessment before data is gathered and analyzed. To use LessonLink, an instructor assigns a CALI lesson, then students click through the link to access the lesson. CALI captures score and interaction data the instructor can download after students finish. The hard part of this process is not data analysis, it’s articulating how learning outcome and formative assessment relate so that data analysis provides helpful insights to instructors and students.

Learning Objectives:

1. Attendees will be able articulate measurable relationships between learning outcomes and formative assessment tools.
2. Attendees will be able to download CALI LessonLink data and analyze it in Excel.
3. Attendees will be able to generate suggestions for improving instructor teaching and student learning after analyzing CALI LessonLink data.

This Chapter is an excellent resource that can be applied to upper-level gender orientation courses. The Chapter will address the current protections that are available to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (“LGBT”) individuals who allege they have been victims of employment discrimination. The Chapter’s primary focus will be on federal statutory law, particularly Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  Although the focus here is on federal law, Appendix I to this Chapter lists the states that protect individuals from public and/or private discrimination under state laws.