Why We Fight
It is a happy coincidence that Open Access Week coincides with my inaugural post on the new CALI Spotlight blog.
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It is a happy coincidence that Open Access Week coincides with my inaugural post on the new CALI Spotlight blog.
With so many combined years of experience in this space, there's a whole lot of knowledge among the CALI staff about legal education, technology, and access to justice. So follow along at the new CALI Spotlight Blog where CALI staffers will soon post individual thoughts and opinions about the things we are passionate about here at CALI.
We do a lot of research at the intersections of technology, law, education and access to justice, but we have been remiss in capturing wisdom from these half-baked ideas.
Update 10/13 8pm: Classcaster is up and running again. Head over to classcaster.net or your favorite Classcaster blog and see for yourself. We're sorry about that.
10/13 5:30pm: We're experiencing some technical issues with Classcaster at the moment. Class blogs and others, like LibTour, are currently unavailable. Please bear with us as we work to fix the problems. We're sorry for the inconvenience.
This lesson is intended to familiarize the reader with Texas legal research and will focus on Texas' primary legal sources: constitution, statutes, legislative history, local legislation, court cases and administrative law. The major finding tools and their various types of updating methods are also explained.
This lesson will cover how to research the constitutions of countries besides the United States.
Clear your calendar. The 2012 CALI Conference for Law School Computing® will be held in San Diego, Thursday-Saturday, June 21-23 at Thomas Jefferson School of Law.
Watch this blog, Twitter, or Facebook for future CALIcon12 announcements. And if you want to relive past conferences, we've uploaded to YouTube any and all past conference video we had stored away on servers. Enjoy!
In law school every Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure, and Evidence student needs a copy of their respective federal rules. Another book to buy, right? Not necessarily.
We've partnered with the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School to publish the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure, and Evidence in ebook format. The books are completely free to download and use, but please consider a donation to LII. Our eLangdell books are open and lack any DRM, so they're compatible with iPads, Kindles, and much more. Have a look...
We've heard your collective feedback and implemented a few updates for one of our favorite faculty features: LessonLink score tracking (a LessonLink FAQ if you're unfamiliar).
New options for current LessonLinks.
What used to be the "My LessonLinks" tab is now called "Current LessonLinks" (you'll need to login at cali.org to see LessonLink pages).
Your links are organized into groups called courses. Each of your current courses now has some new options...:
A2J Author was created by CALI for Chicago-Kent's Center for A2J. The software creates automated, online interviews that help unrepresented litigants more easily produce legal documents.
Use of the software continues to grow in the legal aid community. Illinois Legal Aid Online, for instance, just launched five new A2J interviews on expungement of criminal records.:...