• Exigent Circumstances (crmpro19/Criminal Procedure)
• Homicide - Involuntary Manslaughter (crim43/Criminal Law)
• Intergovernmental Organizations & Non-Governmental Organizations (lr80/Legal Research)
• Ohio Legal Materials: Primary Sources (lr78/Legal Research)

Now that the Legal Education Commons is up and running, we are asking law faculty and librarians to share their materials with the commons by uploading files they think might help others teach.

If you are unsure what to upload, start small -- a syllabus, for example.

And as if that warm feeling you get when you share your stuff isn't enough, every so often we will ask a certain group to make a specific contributions and recognize the contributors in that group who make the biggest and best contributions to the Commons; "Uncommon" Commons Contributors, if you will.

 Keep an eye on our new blog (www.cali.org/blog) for more.

Legal Education Commons Launches with Open Access to 700,000 Court Decisions
LEC is an online source for legal academia to freely find and share open educational materials.

Chicago, Ill., January 26, 2008 – Starting today, legal educators will have the capability to search, make use of, and share more legal educational materials than ever before. The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (“CALI”), in collaboration with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, is launching an open, searchable collection of resources designed specifically for use in legal education: a “Legal Education Commons” (“LEC”).

“All teachers of law have materials and notes they use in teaching,” says John Mayer, CALI Executive Director. “Many freely share their materials with colleagues, but there has never been a singular searchable, taggable space to serve that function for the entire legal academy,” he explains, “until now.” The LEC is available online at www.cali.org/lec.

FINDING TEACHING MATERIALS IN LEC

The Legal Education Commons launches with over 700,000 federal court decisions readily available to its users. This initial collection of cases from public.resource.org makes the LEC one of the largest gatherings of case law freely available in one place under a creative commons license.

CALI has also donated 300 original illustrations from its popular online tutorials, “CALI Lessons,” making the Legal Education Commons the first and largest pool of free images designed specifically for use in legal education.

SHARING TEACHING MATERIALS IN LEC

While the LEC opens with an extensive collection of court cases and images, it can expand its collection of resources only through contributions and donations from the legal education community.

CALI implores faculty and staff at CALI member schools to share any files from personal collections that may facilitate learning amongst the legal education community. “Especially as we increasingly garner more participation and sharing from legal educators,” says Mr. Mayer, “the Legal Education Commons will be a great, non-commercial tool for those who are both teaching and learning the law.”

Faculty and staff at CALI member schools may upload nearly any type of file – from most text documents to presentations and MP3’s as large as 50 MB – and share it with the LEC community under a Creative Commons Share Alike license. The Creative Commons license allows the author to retain copyright in the material, but allows others to use, share, and make derivative works so long as proper attribution is made and the derivative is licensed under this, or a compatible, license.

If you would like to find current LEC resources or upload and share your own files, visit www.cali.org/lec.

ABOUT CALI

CALI is a non-profit consortium of U.S. law schools with a mission to improve legal education through innovation. CALI was incorporated in 1982 by the law schools of Harvard and the University of Minnesota. Today CALI has offices at the law schools of the University of Minnesota, Chicago-Kent, and Emory. The consortium welcomes membership from law schools, paralegal programs, law firms, and any organization that wishes to learn more about the law. Over 200 US law schools are a part of CALI. More information is available at www.cali.org.

If you'll be in San Diego for AALS, plan to join us for breakfast and learn about CALI’s new projects. There will be a presentation on eLangdell, MediaNotes, latest lesson developments, information on the 2009 Conference for Law School Computing, and an opportunity for conversation with colleagues from other schools.

CALI Annual Members Meeting and Buffet Breakfast:

Saturday, January 10, 2009, 7:15-8:30 a.m.

Bayside Pavilion, North Tower, Lobby Level

San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina

RSVP here or email lvmolde@cali.org

On Sunday December 11, 2008, students set a record high for number of lessons run from the CALI website in one day.

21,371 CALI Lessons run in a day!

The previous record was set at 18,685 on December, 9 2007.

On top of that, at least one person from 210 CALI member schools logged on at cali.org on Sunday.

With finals around the corner, remember that CALI lessons are great for review. In preparation for finals, students should  take a look at our lessons here, and professors can help their students by recommending the lesson(s) that they like.

• Accomplice Liability - Definitional Issues (crim35/Criminal Law)
• Accomplice Liability - Mens Rea (crim36/Criminal Law)
• Executive Privilege - Presidential Privilege (adm25/Administrative Law)
• Identifications in Criminal Cases: Law and Practice (crmpro14/Criminal Procedure)
• Omissions (crim34/Criminal Law)

The 19th Annual Conference for Law School Computing (The CALI Conference) will be held at the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder, Colorado on Thursday-Saturday, June 18-20, 2009.

The university's new Wolf Law Building, dedicated in September of 2006, features state-of-the-art classrooms and high-tech facilities that fit the theme of a conference that focuses on technology and innovation in legal education.

The city of Boulder and the Rocky Mountain backdrop provides a breath-taking venue for the 2009 Conference and we are delighted to be working with the folks at University of Colorado Law School. We will post more information soon about hotels and transportation at the conference home page: www.cali.org/conference.

A Call For Speakers will go out in a few months, but if you just can't wait, send email to John Mayer, CALI's Executive Director at jmayer@cali.org. For sponsorship information , please contact Austin Groothuis, CALI's Marketing and Communications Coordinator at agroothuis@cal.org.

The CALI Conference has lots of Faculty Appeal This Year.

The conference has lots of sessions that should appeal to law faculty. There are 68 sessions on the agenda and by my count, there are at
least 16 sessions of direct interest to law faculty in their teaching or scholarship. Here are some example session titles...

Best Practices for Asynchronous Electronic Education (Distance Learning) Classes

VARK and Law Student Learning Styles

Web Course On A Shoestring

The Use of Clickers in the Law School Classroom

Voices of American Law Project

The Flash Classroom

The Pedagogy of Deliberative Practice with Technology

The Rich Syllabus

Digital Statute Books

Entering the Technology Age in Teaching

Critical Review Exam System (CRES) programs for Law School

Authoring CALI Lessons and Using Lessons in Your Class

Stopping to think: reflections on the use of e-portfolios in legal education

Interactive Classroom Quizzes/Tutorials Using MS Agent and Vox Proxy

Why use a casebook at all? A librarian's perspective on casebooks and eLangdell

The entire agenda can be viewed here.

Of course, there will be plenty of sessions of interest to tech staff, law librarians and A/V folks, but we wanted to make special mention about the faculty-related sessions because one of the goals of the conference is to be a salad bowl that mixes these three, broad "cultures" that exist in law schools - faculty, library and tech. I believe that interaction between these communities is more important than ever as technology disappears and goes social. It's not about the technology, it's about how we use to accomplish our shared goals.

We have two awesome keynote speakers this year as well.

Professor Paul Maharg from the University of Strathclyde School of Law, and recent author of the book "Transforming Legal Education" will open the conference on Thursday.

On Friday, we will welcome Joel Garreau author of "Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies, and What It Means to Be Human".

We also have a select group of relevant sponsors, excellent food, long breaks and a plenary dinner at the Baltimore Aquarium.

The conference website where you can register and find hotel information is at ...www.cali.org/conference

See you in Baltimore!

John Mayer
CALI Executive Director

1.5 blocks from law school

2008 Conference Plenary Dinner at the National Aquarium

More information on Thursday night's dinner at the Aquarium:

• 5:45 to 6:45 tour the National Aquarium with hundreds of exhibits and 16,000 aquatic animals.
  
• 7:00 buffet dinner at the Aquarium Pier 4 Building.
• Located in the Inner Harbor area, the aquarium is about a 20 minute walk from the hotel. Limited bus service will be available between the hotel and aquarium.
• Aquarium links: website, wikipedia.

Register for the 2008 Conference Today

Hope to see you in June!

CALI's partner in developing A2J Author, Chicago-Kent's Center for Access to Justice & Technology, continues to win awards for its contributions to the legal world.

IIT Chicago-Kent's Center for Access to Justice & Technology (CAJT) has been selected as the recipient of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) 2008 Louis M. Brown Award for Legal Access. The award honors those programs matching unmet legal needs of the middle class with lawyers who provide affordable legal services. Chicago-Kent professor and center director Ronald W. Staudt accepted the award at a luncheon co-sponsored by the National Conference of Bar Presidents and the National Association of Bar Executives on February 8 during the ABA Midyear Meeting in Los Angeles.

"The committee found the work of the Center [for Access to Justice & Technology] to be an outstanding example of the practical application of technology to legal services in ways that create greater efficiencies and expand access to justice. The dedication of the Center to explore and redefine the potential of technology to serve those who otherwise find legal services unaffordable is highly admirable and clearly worthy of this award," said M. Catherine Richardson, chair of the ABA’s Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services.

Read more about it here.

This adds to the growing list of awards won by The Center for Access to Justice and Professor Staudt, previously honored by the Legal Services Corporation and State Justice Institute "for innovative programming that makes the legal system more accessible to low-income individuals."

CALI fits in all of this as the co-developer of A2J Author software. The Center for Access to Justice implements A2J Author in conjunction with court systems, legal services organizations, and educational institutions in order to create programs designed to help unrepresented/low-income litigants.

CALI would like to congratulate Access to Justice and Professor Staudt for this much deserved recognition. CALI is proud to have contributed to this project.

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Legal Education in Nigeria

"Casual Day" in a Nigerian Law School Course

Not "Casual Day" in a Nigerian Law Classroom

Abuja Campus of the Nigerian Law School - The Largest Law Class

The Benefits of Podcasting and Using Classcaster

According to surveys that Professor Kristl collected from willing students in classes where he offered the podcasts, 77% of the respondents listened to one or more of the podcasts, and 100% of those who responded that they had listened to at least one podcast indicated that they intended to continue doing it. Professor Kristl emphasized multiple times that podcasts should be viewed as supplemental to classroom work and not a replacement for it. He also covered some of the basic technical issues about recording and posting podcasts for download, including both self-generation methods and the Classcaster service available from CALI. Professor Kristl encouraged other professors to try podcasting out, noting, “Students will appreciate it!”

• Growth throughout the years (see flyers on membership, lessons, and the CALI Conference),
• Some current, possibly lesser known, activities and services (see A2J author, Classcaster, and more activities), and
• Current projects that may affect membership in the future (see Medianotes and eLangdell).

Here is a PDF of the press release, the text of which you can find below:

CALI FORMS CRIMINAL PROCEDURE FELLOWSHIP
CALI selects law professors for fellowship to produce new educational material on Criminal Procedure.

Chicago, Ill., October 18, 2007 – The non-profit Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) has selected a group of law professors for the CALI Criminal Procedure Fellowship. The fellowship will produce computer-based legal education materials in Criminal Procedure. From a talented and diverse group of law professor applicants, CALI selected these five:

• Edwin J. Butterfoss, Professor of Law, Hamline University School of Law
• Steven L. Chanenson, Professor of Law, Villanova University School of Law
• Tom Lininger, Associate Professor of Law, University of Oregon School of Law
• Raneta Lawson Mack, Professor of Law, Creighton University School of Law
• David M. Siegel, Professor of Law, New England School of Law

“We are excited to have such an accomplished group of scholars participating in this project.  The resulting 25 lessons from this team will capture their passion and expertise in Criminal Procedure and give students additional ways to learn this complicated subject,” said Deb Quentel, CALI Director of Curriculum Development.

The CALI Fellowships Project is a multi-year applied research effort. Resulting materials are peer-reviewed by the CALI Editorial Board and published to law schools as part of the CALI Library of Materials.  The goal of the project is to create a high-quality pool of electronic teaching materials for faculty to supplement their courses, locally customize for specific instructional goals, and explore computer-mediated/distance learning. Started in 1999, previous fellowships have produced materials in Criminal Law, Property, Torts, Business Organizations, Legal Research, Remedies, Trademark, Copyrights, and Family Law.

ABOUT CALI
CALI is a 501(c)(3) non-profit consortium of U.S. law schools. CALI’s mission is to research and develop computer-mediated legal instruction and support institutions and individuals using technology and distance learning in legal education. CALI was incorporated in 1982 and welcomes membership from law schools, paralegal programs, law firms and individuals wishing to learn more about the law. Over 200 US law schools are a part of CALI. More information is available at www.cali.org.

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Here is the pdf version, text of which is below.

CALI’s Newest Member Law School a First from China
The China University of Political Science and Law is now a CALI international affiliate member.

Chicago, Ill., October 16, 2007 – The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) announced a first by welcoming its latest member: The China University of Political Science and Law, School of American and Comparative Law (www.sacl.net.cn/english/). “This is our first member law school located in China,” says John Mayer, CALI Executive Director.

CALI offers membership to an educational program located outside the U.S. for $250/year through CALI’s International Affiliate Membership. The membership includes unlimited access to CALI’s Library of Lessons for an entire educational program’s students, faculty, and staff. The Library of CALI Lessons is a collection of over 675 computer-based, interactive materials on 33 different legal subjects found at cali.org/lessons. “CALI membership is perfect for international schools that wish to supplement teaching of American or comparative law,” says Mayer. “CALI lessons are written and edited by American law professors or librarians, and all 675-plus lessons are available online at our website. It’s a tremendous value for international schools at $250 a year.”

ABOUT JOHN MAYER
John Mayer is an expert in the use of technology in legal education. He became the Executive Director of The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) in 1994. Prior to CALI, John was the Director of Computing Services at Chicago-Kent College of Law for 7 years. Mr. Mayer has a BS in Computer Science from Northwestern University and an MS in Networks and Telecommunications from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Mr. Mayer is available for comments and questions related to legal education and technology. He can be reached at jmayer@cali.org.

ABOUT CALI
CALI is a 501(c)(3) non-profit consortium of U.S. law schools. CALI’s mission is to research and develop computer-mediated legal instruction and support institutions and individuals using technology and distance learning in legal education. CALI was incorporated in 1982 and welcomes membership from law schools, paralegal programs, law firms and individuals wishing to learn more about the law. Over 200 US law schools are a part of CALI. More information is available at www.cali.org.

Click here to download the PDF version of the release below.

CALI TURNS 25
Since its inception, the nonprofit Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) has been a leader in using computers and technology for legal education purposes.

Chicago, Ill., August 28, 2007 - When CALI was founded in 1982, computers barely existed in law schools; a stark contrast to today when a majority of law school classrooms are wired for internet and nearly every student takes notes with a laptop. This year marks the 25th birthday of the nonprofit Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, or CALI (www.cali.org). And for those 25 years CALI has been an innovator, infusing technology into the very traditional world of law school and legal education.

WHAT IS CALI?
CALI is a non-profit consortium of law schools. “We’ve grown from a side project at Harvard Law School and The University of Minnesota Law School in 1982 to having nearly every US law school participate as a CALI member,” says John Mayer, CALI’s Executive Director. CALI welcomes membership from all law schools (including those outside of the US), paralegal programs, undergraduate programs, and law firms. CALI charges no membership dues for legal aid organizations, state/county libraries, and library schools that sign on as CALI members. For a list of CALI member organizations, visit cali.org/members.

CALI is best known for its Library of CALI Lessons, The Conference for Law School Computing, and CALI Excellence for the Future Awards. And with ground-breaking new projects in the works, CALI continues to advance its mission to better legal education through technology and innovation.

WHAT CALI DOES
CALI Lessons (www.cali.org/lessons) are interactive, computer-based tutorials written by law professors and librarians. Each lesson focuses on a certain aspect of a legal subject to help the user learn the law. CALI’s Library of Lessons has grown from a handful of rarely used lessons to over 675 tutorials in 33 different legal subject areas. CALI lessons were run over 925,000 times by students during the 2006-2007 school year. “Students today grew up on technology and demand to learn interactively. We meet that demand with our CALI Lessons,” says Mr. Mayer.

The CALI Conference for Law School Computing (CALI Conference), hosted by CALI at a chosen CALI member law school each year, has been advancing technology in legal education since 1991. For 15+ years, it has been the preeminent conference for law school IT professionals, librarians, and faculty. At the CALI Conference, these law school professionals collaborate and learn about innovation as it applies to legal education. The University of Maryland in Baltimore hosts the 2008 conference this summer.

Legal professionals will also find CALI’s influence listed on a number of recent law school graduates’ resumes. CALI Excellence for the Future Awards are given to the top performer in each law school course at many member schools and, thus, the awards carry a certain prestige. The awards made CALI a verb. “You’ll hear law students say ‘she CALI’ed Torts,’ or ‘he CALI’ed Property,’” says Mr. Mayer.

One of CALI’s newer projects in line with its nonprofit mission, CALI recently developed the authoring software used for the Access to Justice (A2J) Project. A2J Author software assists self-represented litigants by enabling non-technical authors to build and implement user-friendly, web-based interfaces for pro se document assembly. Several court systems throughout the US have implemented A2J to assist pro se litigants. See www.a2jauthor.org for more information.

THE FUTURE OF CALI
Moving forward, CALI hopes to expand current offerings while introducing a handful of new projects:

• Classcaster Podcasting and Blog Network (www.classcaster.org) is currently available. It offers free class blogs, podcasting, and support of such for law professors.

• MediaNotes (www.medianotes-app.com), created by Brigham Young University Law Professor Larry Farmer, is a video/audio tagging application which allows analysis and annotation of video/audio performances for use with courses like negotiations, trial advocacy, and more. CALI will work with BYU and Prof. Farmer in the distribution of MediaNotes to CALI member schools.

• ELangdell, currently in the planning stages, will be a web-based course pack and casebook assembly system for law professors.

• CALI Spaces is a personal legal education social community space for law students, faculty, and staff. CALI Spaces will be open to the public soon.

• Legal Education Commons will allow law school personnel to share legal education materials including syllabi, podcasts, presentations, and more. Faculty and librarians from CALI member schools can upload materials to the commons under a Creative Commons license that allows colleagues and students to find and use the materials.

CALI is very excited about these new projects. “We think projects like ELangdell, Legal Education Commons, and MediaNotes have a chance to fundamentally change the way law professors teach and the way law students learn for the better,” says Mr. Mayer. “It’s our job to help usher in innovation with projects like these so that schools can help students learn the law through technology.”

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ABOUT JOHN MAYER
John Mayer is an expert in the use of technology in legal education. He became the Executive Director of The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) in 1994. Prior to CALI, John was the Director of Computing Services at Chicago-Kent College of Law for 7 years. Mr. Mayer has a BS in Computer Science from Northwestern University and an MS in Networks and Telecommunications from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Mr. Mayer is available for comments and questions related to legal education and technology. He can be reached at jmayer@cali.org.

ABOUT CALI
CALI is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit consortium of U.S. law schools. CALI’s mission is to research and develop computer-mediated legal instruction and support institutions and individuals using technology and distance learning in legal education. CALI was incorporated in 1982 and welcomes membership from law schools, paralegal programs, law firms, and individuals wishing to learn more about the law. Over 200 US law schools are a part of CALI. More information is available at www.cali.org.

Contact:
Austin Groothuis
CALI
312-906-5303
agroothuis@cali.org

• Administrative Law
• Adjudicative Rules
• Commencement of Rulemaking
• Informal Rulemaking 
• Legal Research/International Law
• Finding International Court of Justice Opinions
• United Nations Research

The Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction’s (CALI) 675+ CALI Lessons are now even easier to find at many libraries around the country. Thanks to the cataloging work of Mike Petit, Sima Mirkin, Mimi Games and Billie Jo Kaufman at American University Washington College of Law, Pence Law Library MARC records of CALI Lessons were recently created and added for the first time to the Online Computer Library Center’s (OCLC) WorldCat Collection Sets. “Adding CALI lessons to WorldCat makes CALI Lessons even more usable and searchable for our member libraries and their users,” said John Mayer, CALI’s Executive Director.

CALI Lessons are computer-based tutorials written by law professors and are freely available to CALI member organizations’ students, faculty, and staff. The lessons were used a total of over 900,000 times by law students in the ‘06-‘07 academic year and cover topics studied in over 30 law school courses. Lessons are released each year on CD-ROM and are also available at www.cali.org.  For more information on obtaining the records from OCLC visit www.oclc.org. Libraries should contact their OCLC regional service provider about pricing.  Details about the set are available here from OCLC. 

“We’re excited about WorldCat adding our lessons,” said Mr. Mayer. “The member librarians with whom we’ve spoken are extremely happy about the addition of CALI Lessons to WorldCat, as well.”

PDF of Press Release HERE.

Text of Release Below:

CALI SENDS 140,000 CD’S TO U.S. LAW SCHOOLS
CALI wants to ensure that every law student has a chance to learn about CALI Lessons. So this year, it is sending 140,000 total CALI CD-ROM’s to its 206 member law schools for the schools to hand out to law students – enough for every law student in the United States.

Chicago, Ill., August 6, 2007 – CALI Lessons are among the few free study aids available for law students. But getting law students to talk amongst themselves about study tips and techniques can be tricky.

“Sometimes we wonder if students are slow to tell other students about the quality of CALI lessons because a lot of law students want to keep the secret for themselves,” says John Mayer, Executive Director of The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI). “Everyone wants to be at the top of the curve in law school and CALI lessons can help.”

What are CALI CD-ROM’s?
The CALI CD-ROM contains CALI's entire catalog of exercises in 33 areas of the law, 675 lessons. The CD-ROM is available only to students from CALI member schools. It is issued every year with updated lessons and new materials to ensure that all materials contain current law. Law students should see someone in their law library to get a free CALI CD-ROM.

This fall marks the largest batch of CD’s CALI has ever sent to law schools. It first time CALI has sent its member law schools enough CD’s for all students.

What are CALI lessons?
CALI Lessons are computer-based tutorials written by law professors and are freely available to CALI member schools’ students. Students use CALI Lessons to supplement learning or for exam review. Lessons are also available at www.cali.org.

“We know students who use the lessons love them because CALI lessons were run over 925,000 times during the 2006-07 school year and we get amazing feedback from students who use the lessons,” says Mr. Mayer. “We just want to make sure all law students know that the lessons are free and available to them.” 

ABOUT JOHN MAYER
John Mayer is an expert in the use of technology in legal education. He became the Executive Director of The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) in 1994. Prior to CALI, John was the Director of Computing Services at Chicago-Kent College of Law for 7 years. Mr. Mayer has a BS in Computer Science from Northwestern University and an MS in Networks and Telecommunications from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Mr. Mayer is available for comments and questions related to legal technology. He can be reached at jmayer@cali.org.

ABOUT CALI
CALI is a 501(c)(3) non-profit consortium of U.S. law schools. CALI’s mission is to research and develop computer-mediated legal instruction and support institutions and individuals using technology and distance learning in legal education. CALI was incorporated in 1982 and welcomes membership from law schools, paralegal programs, law firms and individuals wishing to learn more about the law. Over 200 US law schools are a part of CALI. More information is available at www.cali.org.

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Keeping Courses Current: a call for your input

CALI is developing a system to enable law professors to assemble course packs to supplement (or replace) casebooks. Dubbed eLangdell, the project has several goals: simplify the creation process for teachers, lower costs for students, and establish a commons where teachers can share teaching resources. (Students will be able to use these materials online, or print them at a micropress or on their own.)

I'm soliciting feedback from professors on how to make this resource as valuable as possible, and would love your thoughts on any of the questions below. (Submit them as comments to this post).

1. What aspects of assembling a coursepack are particularly annoying, unpleasant, or impossible?
2. What portion of the resources you use are protected by copyright and not available under fair use? Is there a good process of securing permissions? (cf. The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age)
3. Have you ever peeked at the syllabus of someone else teaching a similar course as you, and if so, what's proven most useful? Into whose syllabus would you love to peek?
4. What MUST eLangdell be able to do before you would consider using it?

(Consider this a "proactive" law school innovation post!)

- Gene Koo

CONTRACTS
Contract Formation II – CON03
Contract Tutorials on Damages – CON07
Exploring Article 2 – CON10
Lack of Capacity – CON15
Conditions – CON20
An Introduction to Contract Remedies – CON42
Overview and Sources of Contract Law – CON60

 
CORPORATIONS & BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS
Introduction to Agency: Defining Agency Relationships – BA03
Voting Trusts and Voting Agreements - CORP13
Partnership: Winding Up, Partnership Accounts, and Distribution of Profits and Losses – CORP16
Piercing the Corporate Veil – CORP31

 
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
Superfund Basics – ENV02
Clean Water Act Permitting Basics – ENV06
ESA Basics – ENV07

EVIDENCE
The Concept of Hearsay – EVD01
Survey of Evidence – EVD03
Character Evidence Under Federal Rules – EVD04
Hearsay From Square One: The Definition of Hearsay – EVD08
Hearsay Exceptions: Rules 803 and 804 – EVD13
Federal Rule 801(d) and Multiple Hearsay- EVD15
An Overview of Relevance and Hearsay: A Nine Step Analytical Guide – EVD16

 
LABOR LAW
Recognitional Picketing I – LL01

 
LEGAL RESEARCH
Citation Form for Briefs and Legal Memoranda – LWR01
Learning Legal Analysis Through Its Components: Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion—IRAC – LWR02
How to Find Case Law Using the Digests – LWR29
Researching Federal Legislative History - LWR14Introduction to Secondary Resources – LWR35
Georgia Legal Research -- Primary Source Material - LR42
Cost of Legal Research – LR49

 
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
Model Rules of Professional Conduct II: Questions and Problems – PR06
Fees – PR13

 
TAX LAW
The Concept of Gross Income – TAX02
Basic Federal Income Taxation: Gross Income: Claim of Right Doctrine – TAX106

TORTS LAW
Negligence – TRT05
Battery Basics – TRT10
Causation in Fact – TRT11
Battery Puzzlers – TRT12

Every year, the membership of CALI meets during AALS to elect new members to the Board of Directors and I give an overview of the previous year plus a look-ahead to the coming year.

2006 was an amazing year for CALI and I expect that 2007 will be even better.

I welcome comments, ideas, suggestions, complaints and kudos. Drop me a note at jmayer@cali.org.

With CALI Instapoll, professors ask a question in class and CALI Instapoll (www.cali.org/instapoll) lets them create a poll online in a matter of one click, giving the professor a screen like this:

Students then access www.cali.org/instapoll on their laptop, put in the poll number, and click on the letter corresponding with their vote: Two clicks for the student.

The professor sees the student's responses in real time on his/her screen as soon as each student votes:

• administrative computing
• student services
• distance learning
• exams on computers/policy and technlogies
• laptops in the classroom
• video annotation of student performance
• web site maintenance and content management systems
• software patents in education
• law students in myspace
• webcams and videoconferencing
• main campus computing negotiations
• clickers in the classroom
• how to pry wordperfect 5.0 out of their cold dead hands
• why student printing costs should be decided by the dean
• voting digital natives off the island
  

• An Introduction to CALI (15:08)
• The Fantasy Supreme Court Project (8:39)
• eLangdell (23:14)

• How to Prepare for the Study of Torts Law - Professor Ron Eades

• Preparing for Your First Semester of Law School - Professors Joe Grohman & Ron Brown

• Advice to a 1L From a Law Professor - Professor Douglas McFarland
  

   

This past spring semester, CALI conducted the Legal Education Podcasting Project where over 30 law faculty used podcasting in their courses. We conducted surveys of the students mid-semester and are in the process of conducting an end-of-semester survey as well.

We also are interviewing the faculty about their experiences and their thoughts on how podcasting affected their students and their own teaching.

This is the first of a series of interviews to be posted and it is with Professor Jennifer Martin of Western New England College of Law.

Here is the blog post with the podcast interview. 

I will be posting several of these a week over the next several weeks. 

Emory University has resolved its connectivity issues and Classcaster is back on line.

On Monday January 9th, 2006, Prof. Jennifer Martin at Western New England College of Law recorded her Business Organizations class and posted the lecture to her Classcaster blog becoming the first law professor to podcast her course using the Classcaster system.  This first podcast launches an ambitious CALI project that will see over 50 faculty members from CALI member law schools create blogs and podcasts for their courses during the spring 2006 semester.   The project is intended to examine the usefulness of podcasting and blogging in legal education.  CALI is providing digital voice recorders and extra support to the faculty members chosen to participate in the project.

 Classcaster is a course blogging system that provides faculty, librarians, and staff of CALI member schools with a new way to interact with students and communities. A Classcaster blog provides authors with tools for posting not only traditional blog articles but also tools for podcasting and sharing any documents and/or files with students and communities. For more information about Classcaster, please read the Classcaster FAQ or the Classcaster whitepaper.  A forum for discussing Classcaster is available here.

Annual CALI Membership Meeting:

Thursday, January 5, from 7:15 – 8:30 a.m.

Monroe West, Concourse Level

Hilton Washington & Towers

If you have not received your invitation, you may make your reservation for the buffet breakfast here.

• Babcock, Massaro - Civil Procedure: Cases and Problems 2nd Edition  (23)
• Field, Kaplan, Clermont - Civil Procedure: Materials for a Basic Course 8th Edition  (28)
• Friedenthal, Miller, Sexton, Hershkoff - Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials 9th Edition  (19)
• Marcus, Redish, Sherman - Civil Procedure: Modern Approach 4th Edition  (16)
• Rowe, Sherry, Tidmarsh - Civil Procedure   (16)
• Teply, Whitten - Civil Procedure 3rd Edition  (19)
• Yeazell - Civil Procedure 6th Edition  (16)

A whitepaper authored by John Mayer and Elmer Masters and titled Classcaster: Podcasting Meets the Classroom is available on the CALI website.  The paper describes the functionality of Classcaster and provides some possible use cases for the system.  Anyone with an interest in what Classcaster can do and how it works should read this paper.

CALI is making available a public site that demonstrates how the telephone recording, auto-posting, and podcasting features of Classcaster work.  The Hotdiggityblog site is open to all and allows anyone with a phone to call Classcaster and create and audio blog post.  CALI is providing this space to allow folks interested in Classcaster to 'kick the tires' a bit get an idea about how Classcaster works.

 For more information about Classcaster, please visit www.classcaster.org or contact Elmer Masters, Director of Internet Development, CALI, at emastersATcali.org.  

CALI is excited to announce the immeadiate availability of Classcaster.   Classcaster is a course blogging and podcasting system that provides faculty, librarians, and staff of CALI member schools with a new way to interact with students and communities. A Classcaster blog provides authors with tools for posting not only traditional blog articles but also tools for podcasting and sharing any documents and/or files with students and communities.   Members of the CALI community interested in using Classcaster should first visit the Classcaster FAQ for instructions on using the system. 

Classcaster's advanced podcasting features include the ability to record podcasts with a simple phone call and have the podcast posted to a Classcaster blog.  The recorded files are encoded as MP3 audio files  and stored on the blog giving the author full access the file.  The 'Play it now!' feature allows the podcasts to be played directly from the web page or downloaded for more convenient listening.  The system generates RSS 2.0 feeds with enclosures that can be used with tools like iPodder to automatically download new podcasts as they become available. 

Potential uses for Classcaster include recording supplemental lecture materials, guest lectures, interviews with subject specialists, and exam reviews.  Even entire classes could be recorded with just a simple phone call.  Right now the CALI staff is making use of the Classcaster system to present CALI Radio and Classcaster News.  CALI Radio is starting out with a series of interviews with CALI authors about the lessons they have written.  Classcaster News is the blog to get the latest information about what is going on with Classcaster and includes 'Audio FAQ', a series of recorded questions and answers about Casscaster, using Classcaster.

Classcaster makes use of open source technology including pLog for blogging, Asterisk for telephone call handling, Linux as  the operating system, MySQL for database services, Apache for serving web pages, and PHP and Perl to hold it all together.

For more information about Classcaster, please contact Elmer Masters, Director of Internet Development, CALI, at emastersATcali.org.

Future of Law Libraries Symposium - Thursday and Friday, March 10-11, 2005

The program was moderated by Dan Freehling, Professor of Law, Law Library Director and Associate Dean for Information Services, Boston University School of Law

(Click on the titles to start the video)

Opening Remarks by Rodney Buhrsmith , Senior Director of Academic Marketing, Thomson West; Peter Goplerud , Dean and Professor of Law, Florida Coastal School of Law; and Rick Inatome , CEO, InfiLaw Systems, Inc.

Overview of the AALL Future of Law Libraries in the Digital Age Special Committee's Findings
Gail Warren , State Law Librarian, Virginia State Law Library

Envisioning the Future: The Publisher's Perspective
Dan Dabney , Senior Director of Research and Development, Thomson West

Information Resources: Access in the Future
Elmer Masters , Director of Internet Development, CALI

Law Classroom Technologies
Paul Caron , The Charles Hartsock Professor of Law and Director of Faculty Projects at the University of Cincinnati College of Law

The Need for ABA/AALS Standards to Address Technology Infrastructure
Steve Burnett , Associate Dean Information Services, Seattle University School of Law

ABA Accreditation Considerations
Steven Barkan , Professor & Director of Library and Information Services, University of Wisconsin Law School

Collection Economics
Jim Milles , Associate Dean and Director of the Law Library, Associate Professor of Law at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Configuration of the Law Library of the Future
Penny Hazelton , Associate Dean for librayr and Computing Services and Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law

Oil & Water? Can IT & Library Staffs Work As One?
Marc Eichen , Director of Academic Technology, Suffolk University Law School

Closing Remarks
Dan Freehling and Martha Smith , Associate Director, Florida Coastal School of Law

The new site is powered by Moodle, an open source course/learning management system.  Using Moodle allows us to offer courses about LDE on the CODEC website.  The first of these, "How to Prepare Course Presentations for Online or Disk Delivery: A Step-by-Step Tutorial", by Peter Martin, is now available.  We plan on adding other courses for faculty, librarians, technologists, and administrators in the future.

Be sure to check out the forum section to find the latest LDE course available, sought after, and discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of LDE.  There is a CODEC FAQ that will answer your questions about CODEC, and you can ask questions there, too.

To make full use of the site you will need to login suing your CALI userid and password.  If you are not registered on the CALI site, please register here. 

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Fair Use and Parody (CPY12)

This lesson explores the application of the fair use doctrine, a
defense to copyright infringement, in the special context of parody,
based on the guidance provided by the Supreme Court in Campbell v.
Acuff Rose Music, 510 U.S. 569 (1994).  The lesson builds on the
foundation established in CALI Lesson CPY08, Fundamentals of Fair
Use, using a series of hypotheticals and a final essay.

Approximate completion time: 30 minutes plus 15-minute essay.

Author:
 Mary LaFrance, William S. Boyd Professor of Law, University of Nevada
  William S. Boyd School of Law

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/cpy12


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Attorney General Materials (LR44)

This is an introduction to federal and state attorney general
materials.

Approximate completion time: 30 minutes.

Author:
 Marcia Baker, Reference Librarian, Wake Forest University School of
  Law

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/lr44

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Finding Statutes (LR23)

This exercise is intended to do 2 things: 1) teach you the basic
approaches to finding statutes, and 2) provide you with review
exercises to reinforce your understanding. It is assumed you are
already familiar with the forms of statutory publication when you run
this lesson. See the lessons "Introduction to State and Federal
Statutes" or "Forms of Federal Statutory Publication" if you need to
review these matters first.

While this lesson is intended for first year students, the review
sections may be used independently to ‘refresh your recollection,’ so
if you haven’t had to deal with statute research for awhile and now
have to do it, you can brush up your skills.

Approximate completion time: 45 minutes.

Author:
 Kit Kreilick, Associate Law Librarian for Technology, Fordham
  University School of Law

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/lr23

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Internet Legal Resources - Free Resources (LR18)

This lesson will give students a basic introduction to using the
Internet for legal research. Students will consider when it is
appropriate to use the Internet as a research tool in legal practice,
and they will learn how to evaluate the quality and reliability of
free web resources. Students will then be introduced to three
practical approaches to doing legal research on the Internet.

Approximate completion time: 30 minutes.

Authors:
 Resa Kerns, Educational Technologies Librarian, University of Missouri
  - Columbia School of Law
 Cindy Shearrer, Research/Faculty Services Librarian, University of
  Missouri - Columbia School of Law

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/lr18

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Maryland Legal Research: Primary Authority (LR46)

This lesson provides an introduction to research using primary
sources of Maryland law, including case reporters and digests,
statutes, legislative history, agency regulations and decisions, and
attorney general opinions.

Approximate completion time: 2.5 to 3 hours.

Authors:
 Sara Kelley, Reference Librarian, Georgetown University Law Center
 Susan Herrick, Research Librarian, University of Maryland School of
  Law

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/lr46


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Unclean Hands (REM07)

This is a lesson on the equitable defense of unclean hands. The first
part of the lesson is designed to introduce the basics of the concept
for students before and during its study in class.  The "Review"
questions at the end are an aide for students who have completed
their study, either through class work or this lesson.  Students who
want simply to review in anticipation of a final exam can go straight
to the Review materials and backtrack only as necessary for
understanding questions missed.

Unclean hands is one of the "conscience defenses" in equity. The
conscience defenses act to bar equitable suitors whose claims are in
some way morally tainted even if they are legally sound. Thus, a
suitor cannot receive equitable relief if the equitable defense
applies even though legal relief may still be available.  Other
conscience defenses include laches, estoppel, and unconscionability,
which are covered in other CALI lessons.

Approximate completion time: 40 minutes.

Author:
 Elaine Shoben, Edward W. Cleary Professor of Law, University of
  Illinois College of Law

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/rem07

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Business Associations
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Authority of Partners to Bind the Partnership (BA07)

This lesson integrates agency law and partnership law to develop an
understanding of the authority partners possess to bind the
partnership. The lesson explores the actual and apparent authority
of partners and the possibility of inherent agency power in the
partner context.

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/ba07

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Analysis of a Diversity Case (CIV05)

This exercise is designed to help train beginning students in the
analysis of judicial opinions. The student is asked to agree or
disagree with assertions about a diversity jurisdiction case (Baker
v. Keck). The computer responds to the student's answers by
evaluating them or asking further questions.

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/civ05

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Demurrers and Judgments (CIV02)

The student is given sets of pleadings in civil cases and asked to
identify issues that would be raised on a demurrer or motion for
judgment on the pleadings. Although the case is set in a hypothetical
code pleading state, the exercise also deals with motions to dismiss
or for judgment on the pleadings under the Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure. The background reading contains all the information about
code pleading that the student needs to know in order to do the
exercise.

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/civ02

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Drafting a Complaint (CIV01)

The student is presented with a hypothetical slander case and
instructed to compose a complaint for a diversity action in federal
court. The student is told that the complaint must be drafted so
that it would completely satisfy even the most punctilious judge.
The student composes the complaint by choosing from a menu of
paragraphs contained in the Park and McFarland computer booklet. The
computer asks the student to explain the grounds upon which rejected
paragraphs were not used. The student explains by choosing from a
multiple choice format, and the computer responds by asking further
questions or by criticizing the student’s answer. The exercise
requires the student to compose a complaint which pleads grounds for
jurisdiction and the elements of the claim at a proper level of
generality, while avoiding superfluity or violation of Rule 11.

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/civ01

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Evidence for Procedure Students (CIV06)

This exercise has two purposes. The first is to engage students
actively in legal analysis. Hence, the exercise contains some
difficult questions that require careful thought. The second is to
provide a survey of the rules of evidence in order to give students a
deeper understanding of other subjects studied in Civil Procedure
courses. (This exercise was previously titled, Survey of
Evidence-Civil Procedure Version.)

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/civ06

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Jurisdiction and Venue (CIV03)

The student is asked, in the Park and McFarland computer booklet, to
answer questions about whether a hypothetical action could be brought
in various fora. After answering these questions, the student goes
to the computer. The computer responds to the student’s answers by
evaluating them and asking further questions.

This exercise is designed primarily to give basic instruction on
statutes relating to diversity jurisdiction, removal, venue, and
personal jurisdiction. However, the exercise also requires the
student to interpret two diversity jurisdiction cases that deal with
change of citizenship by acquisition of a new domicile.

Everything the student needs to know for the exercise is contained in
the computer booklet, so the exercise can be assigned prior to
reaching the subject in class, with a view toward allowing class
discussion to begin at a higher level.

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/civ03

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Summary Judgment (CIV13)

The student is asked to decide summary judgment motions on a claim
for defamation and a counterclaim for battery. After requiring the
student to explore and apply the fundamental concepts of summary
judgment such as what constitutes a genuine issue, the exercise moves
into more difficult problems based on court interpretations of
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56.

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/civ13

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Waiver Under Rule 12 (CIV09)

Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provides that certain
defenses, including lack of jurisdiction, improper venue, and failure
to state a claim, can at the pleader’s option be brought by motion
prior to filing a responsive pleading. It also provides that certain
of these defenses are waived if they are not asserted in the proper
fashion. This exercise deals with the reasons for special treatment
of those defenses and analysis of the waiver provisions of the rule.
It provides practice in close scrutiny and interpretation of a
complex set of interrelated provisions.

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/civ09

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Understanding Fixtures: Section 9-334 of the Uniform Commercial Code
(CT01)

This exercise is designed to give you a good working familiarity with
the fixtures provisions of Revised Article 9. You can run it either
as a review of the fixture provisions of Revised Article 9 or as an
initial exploration of those provisions. The lesson assumes that you
have a working knowledge of other Revised Article 9 concepts.

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/ct01

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Accord and Satisfaction (CON68)

This lesson explores discharge of a debt by accord and satisfaction.
It can be run either as an introduction to the study of accord and
satisfaction or as a review after you have completed your study.

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/con68

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Battle of the Forms (UCC 2-207) (CON64)

This lesson deals with the problem created by the Battle of the
Forms. At common law, the mirror image rule requires an acceptance
to be exactly like the offer. The rule is reversed under the Uniform
Commercial Code, however. Under UCC § 2-207, an acceptance is still
an acceptance even though it states different or additional terms
from the offer. This lesson will explore the effect of such
different or additional terms and when they are operative. This
lesson can be worked as an introduction to the Battle of the Forms or
as a review. This lesson may be a more in-depth study of UCC § 2-207
than many first year contracts courses require. However, prior to
working this lesson, you should have an understanding of offer,
acceptance and mutual assent.

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/con64

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Consideration: The Basics of Consideration and the Bargain Theory
(CON67)

This lesson takes a look at the basic aspects of the contractual
element of Consideration. In a typical transaction, the
consideration (described as a bargained-for-exchange) is what induces
the making of the promise by the offeror. In turn, the promise
induces the furnishing of the consideration by the offeree.
Consideration is the ordinary means for justifying the enforcement of
the promises by the parties. This lesson sets out the basic
requisites for establishing consideration. The general attributes of
formation of contracts (mutual assent, offer and acceptance) are
covered in other lessons.

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/con67

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Formation of Contracts under UCC Article 2 (CON65)

This lesson deals with the formation of contracts under Article 2 of
the Uniform Commercial Code (excluding 2-207 issues). At common law,
a contract is formed often by the showing of mutual assent plus a
consideration. The rule is reversed under the Uniform Commercial
Code, however. Under UCC 2-204, a contract can be formed in any
manner sufficient to show agreement, even if the parties leave open
terms. This lesson will explore the effect of the difference in
formation between common law and Article 2. You can work this lesson
as an introduction to the formation of contracts under the UCC or as
a review. The material in this lesson may be a more in-depth study of
Article 2 than some first year contracts courses require. However,
prior to working this lesson, you should have an understanding of the
common law on offer, acceptance and mutual assent.

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/con65

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The Adaptation Right (CPY19)

This lesson examines the scope of one of the exclusive rights
belonging to a copyright owner -- the right to create derivative
works based on the copyrighted work, under 17 U.S.C. § 106(2).

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/cpy19

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Contributory and Vicarious Liability (CPY17)

This lesson examines the two types of secondary liability in
copyright law -- contributory infringement and vicarious liability.
Before attempting this lesson, students should be familiar with the
exclusive rights that belong to a copyright owner, and should
understand the concept of direct infringement. Note: This lesson was
written while the Supreme Court was still considering MGM Studios,
Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., cert. granted, 125 S. Ct. 686 (2004), the
outcome of which may alter the standard for contributory
infringement.

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/cpy17

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Copyright Formalities: Notice and Registration (CPY04)

This lesson covers some of the basic formalities of copyright:
notice, registration, and deposit. Attention is given to changes
wrought by the 1976 Act and the Berne Convention Implementation Act.

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/cpy04

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Fundamentals of Fair Use (CPY08)

Because copyright creates ownership rights in original expression,
the private property interests of copyright owners sometimes come
into conflict with the public's interest in disseminating knowledge,
expressing ideas, or simply enjoying, sharing, and building upon the
protected expression. This lesson introduces the basic concept of
fair use in copyright law, and offers numerous examples to test the
student's ability to apply the balancing test of 17 U.S.C. § 107.

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/cpy08

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Joint Works (CPY02)

This lesson explores the concept of a "joint work" in copyright law,
including the legal standards which determine whether a work has been
jointly authored as well as the legal consequences that attach to
this characterization.

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/cpy02

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Ownership of Copyright: Works Made for Hire (CPY07)

This lesson reviews the threshold principles of ownership by
analyzing the "works made for hire" doctrine codified in the
Copyright Act of 1976. In addition to an analysis of the current
Copyright Act, this lesson will review the rules and doctrine of
"works made for hire" under the Copyright Act of 1909. The review of
both Acts is crucial to a proper determination of copyright ownership
for original works of authorship created before January 1, 1978 and
for those copyrighted works created on or after January 1, 1978.
Depending on the date of creation, a court will be required to
analyze differing rules of law to resolve the issue of copyright
ownership. The purpose of this lesson is to augment the readings and
study you have already done with your professor.

Again, as this lesson is meant as a review of materials you have
covered in your class with your professor, you should become familiar
with the 1909 Copyright Act and the 1976 Copyright Act as amended by
the Berne Convention. In particular, you should have some knowledge
of the interest and expense test for determining a "work made for
hire" under the 1909 Act and the Reid multifactor test for
determining a "work made for hire" under the 1976 Act.

If you do not have this background, do the lesson anyway to acquaint
yourself with the rules and doctrine of "works made for hire" but do
not concentrate on scoring. After your initial exposure to the
material, revisit the lesson at some later point to confirm your
understanding of the "work made for hire" doctrine.

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/cpy07

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A Primer on Copyright Infringement (CPY11)

This lesson is an introduction to the principles governing copyright
infringement. After completing this lesson, you will be familiar with
the standard used to determine liability for copyright infringement.
Specifically, the lesson will introduce the elements necessary to
support a claim of copyright infringement, which include assessments
of copying, access, probative resemblance, striking similarity,
improper appropriation, and substantial similarity.

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/cpy11

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Anatomy of a Case (LR47)

This brief lesson will familiarize the student with the basic parts
of a case (i.e., the written decision of a court published in a print
reporter).

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/lr47

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Legal Encyclopedias (LWR40)

This CALI lesson is about Legal Encyclopedias. As one of the main
types of secondary resources for legal research, Legal Encyclopedias
can be useful for a variety of basic legal research tasks. This
lesson will give you an overview of legal encyclopedias, explain how
they are used in legal research, and run through a couple of
hypotheticals using legal encyclopedias. The lesson focuses on the
two legal encyclopedias covering American Law in general, Corpus
Juris Secundum (CJS) and American Jurisprudence 2d (AmJur 2d) and
gives some examples of state legal encyclopedias.

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/lwr40

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Updating/Validating Case Law Using Citators (LWR36)

This lesson explains how to make sure your case is still "good law."
Focusing on print and on-line citators, specifically Shepard's,
LexisNexis Shepard's on-line, and Westlaw KeyCite, it builds on
concepts introduced in various CALI lessons including: " Legal
Research 101: The Tools of the Trade"; "Legal Research Methodology";
"How to Find Case Law Using Digests"; and "Hold'em, Fold'em, Walk
Away or Run: When to Stop the Search." This lesson assumes a basic
understanding of case law including the specific parts of a reported
court decision. This lesson may be used as an introduction to the
subject, and also as a review at the end of a legal research course,
or before moving to more avanced legal research projects or courses.
The lesson provides an option to move directly from the introductory
material to on-line citators, skipping citators in print.

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/lwr36

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Contempt Overview (REM19)

This lesson provides an overview of both criminal and civil contempt.
It includes both direct and indirect contempt, as well as
compensatory civil contempt and coercive civil contempt. It covers
the differences among these types of contempt in their function and
procedures and explores why it is important to distinguish among
them.

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/rem19

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European Union Trademark Basics (TM26)

This lesson gives an overview of the basics of the European Union's
trademark system. The emphasis is on issues of registration and
infringement. It often uses a comparative approach, with the U.S.
system as a foil. It takes users through both the national systems
(via the Trademark Harmonization Directive) and the Community
Trademark system. Familiarity with U.S. trademark law is assumed.

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/tm26

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Likelihood of Confusion (TM22)

Likelihood of confusion is a core concept in trademark law. This
lesson is designed to teach the basics of confusion, as well as some
more advanced aspects of the topic. It requires students to work
through the multifactor analysis used by courts with specific
problems. It also includes a discussion of the different forms of
confusion.

http://www2.cali.org/lesson/detail/tm22

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CALI's Conference for Law School Computing® has a new home on the web.  Continuing the transition from the old server, the conference information and materials are being moved to the new server.  The conference home page, http://www.cali.org/conference/, contains links to past conference materials, including agendas, papers, presentations, and webcast archives.  The page also provides information about the upcoming conference, including links for a link to new session proposal form, and links for hotel information, registration, and agenda as that information becomes available.

Please note that the transfer and updating of materials from past conference is not yet 100% complete, so you may find some missing images or broken links, but post-conference materials such as webcasts and presentations should be available.  

  Using the CALI website and various CALI products and services can be a bit complicated.  To help make things a bit easier we are adding a Frequently Asked Question section to the website.  Here you will find answers to the most common, and uncommon  , questions that visitors have about the site.  Since the section is new make sure to check it often in the coming weeks as we add more answers to your questions. 

 Available now to CALI members are a series of new features, AutoPublish, LessonLink, ScoreSave, and the Flash Lesson Viewer. These features allow faculty to create lessons/quizzes/tutorials, publish those exercises to the CALI website, and assign them to students in a specific class. Students can then take the lesson and save the results.  The faculty member can then review the saved results of his students.  Those who prefer not to create their own lessons can choose from over 350 existing lessons in 28 areas of the law, create unique links to the lessons, assign them to students, direct students to save scores, and review the scores after students have completed the lesson.

At the center of all these features is the CALI Flash Lesson Viewer. The Flash Viewer allows lessons created with CALIAuthor to be viewed with the latest Flash plug-in.  The Flash Viewer represents a significant step forward in bringing the full power of the CALIAuthor tool to all web browsers.  To see the Flash Viewer in action, login to the CALI website, go to the Lessons area and look for the Flash link to run a lesson in the Flash Viewer.

Because it deals nicely with XML, the Flash Viewer allows for introduction of the ScoreSave feature.  ScoreSave allows students to save the full set of responses to a lesson on the CALI server for later retrieval.  ScoreSave encodes all responses to questions in a lesson, including the full text of essay and short answer questions, in XML which is transfered to the CALI server when the student chooses to upload the data.  When logged in to the CALI website, the student can review lessons run and scores saved.  More information about ScoreSave can be found here.

LessonLink is the feature that allows faculty to create unique links directly to CALI Lessons.  The links can then be distributed to students via the web or email and faculty can track student use of the links through the CALI website.  Faculty can associate links with a specific course and semester to make tracking easier and to build a body of results over several semesters.  When used with ScoreSave, faculty can review the full results of their students who followed a LessonLink. More information about LessonLink can be found here.

CALI Lessons are created with CALIAuthor, a sophisticated authoring tool that allows the instructor to create rich, interactive learning experiences.  CALIAuthor is used by CALI's authors to create the lessons CALI publishes, but it has also been freely available to faculty, staff, and students at member schools so that they could create their own lessons or modify existing lessons.  What CALIAuthor has lacked is an easy to use method of publication/distribution that would allow authors to get their lessons to students quickly and easily.  AutoPublish fills that gap.

AutoPublish is a new feature of CALIAuthor that allows authors to directly publish their lessons to a special area of the CALI website. Each lesson is a assigned a unique URL which the author can distribute to students.  The AutoPublish lessons are run using the Flash Viewer, which allows for scores to be saved by students.  Authors can login to the CALI website to track usage of their lessons and view students' saved scores and detailed responses to questions.  This feature is introduced in the latest version of CALIAuthor, version 3.1.3, which can be downloaded here.  More information about AutoPublish can be found here.

Taken together Flash Viewer, AutoPublish, LessonLink, ScoreSave, and the registration and tracking capabilities of the CALI website present a fairly complete system that allows for the creation of customized lessons/tutorials/exercises/quizzes that provide faculty and students with rich feedback and data.  In legal academia, this is something new and different.  If you have not reviewed CALI Lessons and CALIAuthor recently, we urge you to do so now.  This new feature set provides great opportunities for extending valuable learning experiences from the web to the classroom.

For one example of how these new features can be used, imagine a faculty member creating a brief exercise before class, or assigning a lesson for completion in class.  The link to the exercise is distributed to the class at the appropriate time, students login to the CALI website, work the lesson, save the results, and the faculty member can see the saved results in real time in the classroom, choosing perhaps to share a particular response with the class, or using the results as a springboard for discussion.  These new features open a wide range of possibilities.

So, logon to CALI and experience these new features for yourself.

The CALI Privacy Policy which governs how CALI handles information collected on its websites has been modified to reflect the new features of the CALI site and CALIAuthor.  The revised policy provides details on how CALI handles data associated with the new AutoPublish, LessonLink, and ScoreSave features.  Please read the policy as it is effective immediately.

John Christensen, Law Library Director at Washburn, and John Mayer, CODEC (COnsortium for Distance Education/CALI), are conducting a survey of videoconferencing in law schools.  The survey can be accessed here.  They are looking for ONE survey response per law school and plan to compile the information and present it back as a directory of videoconferencing services to help law schools coordinate videoconferencing activities between schools. It is a long-ish survey and so you may want to print out the paper version available here before going online and answering the questions. Law schools outside the U.S. are certainly invited to participate.

John Christensen has also posted this notice to the Law Library Director's list, so please coordinate within your institution to prevent duplicative data-gathering.

Over time, CODEC will integrate this information into a larger database-backed website to try to bring relevant information together in one place. The goal is to lower the administrative, technical and institutional barriers to coordinating distance legal education. Your institution will NOT have to be a member of CALI or CODEC to view the results of the survey - this is one service that will be made available to everyone.

John Christensen will  present the preliminary results of the survey/directory at the  ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Technology Committee 2-day conference called "Pedagogy to Practice: Maximizing Legal Education with Technology" to be held at Rutgers University-Newark School of Law on Oct. 15-16, 2004.  Registration is still open if you are interested in attending.

In past 2 weeks over 50,000 copies of the 17th edition of the CALI CD have shipped to member schools.  The CD contains over 400 Lessons in more than 30 areas of the law.  CDs are free for 1Ls and faculty.  CALI reps can still order CDs for their schools here and interested faculty can order a copy of the CD here.

Click here to find the CALI Representative at your school to find out how to register.

Would you like to link directly to CALI Lessons from your course web pages?  It is easy to do with CALI LessonLink.  To get started, login to the CALI website and go to the LessonLink Start page.  Follow the quick 3-step process that will generate a custom URL ready to be inserted into your course web page or emailed to your students.

CALI plans to release several new features that build upon LessonLink in the coming weeks, including the ability to view what students followed the link and how they did on the lesson.

If you have any questions or comments about LessonLink, send email to webmaster@cali.org.

CALI has discovered that there is a problem when installing the 2004-2005 CALI CD on Microsoft Windows 98/ME/NT systems. The installation causes a particular DLL (MSVCRT.DLL 1997) to get overwritten with a newer one written for XP SP1.  Following an attempted installation the computer will no longer start up Windows, and the user will see this message:
MSVCRT.DLL linked to missing export NTDLL.DLL:RtlGetVersionNumbers

This only occurs when a local installation of the CALI Lessons library for Windows is performed on the PC.  The HTML versions of the lessons run from the CD do not cause this problem.  Windows XP and  2000 are not effected by this problem.  We have not tested Windows 95, but it is safe to assume that if it causes problems on Win98, then it effects Win95 too.

Microsoft has more information on this problem.

The 2004-2005 CALI CD should not be installed on Windows Me, 98 or earlier systems. If an installation is attempted, the resulting problems can be fixed by booting in Safe Mode and copying the older MSVCRT.DLL file over the newer one in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM. This DLL is available on the CALI website here. The lessons on the CD can be run on computers with Windows 98 if the user runs them in browser mode and does not install them onto the hard drive.

Here are more detailed instructions for Windows 95 and 98:

1. Using another PC copy the MSVCRT.DLL file from the website and put on a floppy disk.
2. Boot up your affected PC with the Control key. There should be a menu when your computer boots.
3. Choose "Command Prompt Only" instead of Safe mode. This gives you a command line.
4. Insert the disk and type "copy a:\msvcrt.dll c:\windows\system". This overwrites the bad DLL with the good one.
5. Reboot.

For Windows ME users:

1. Create a Boot disk using another computer with Windows ME or Windows 98/95.
2. Choose  Start->Settings->Control Panel. Then Double click on the Add/Remove Program icon.
3. Under Add/Remove Program please click on the Startup Disk Tab and then click on Create Disk.
4. Copy the MSVCRT.DLL file from the website and put on this  floppy disk.
5. Insert the disk into your affected PC.
6. Turn the PC off and on again.
7. There should be a menu when your computer boots. 
8. Choose the option for which gives you the  "Command Prompt".
9. Type "copy a:\msvcrt.dll c:\windows\system". This overwrites the bad DLL with the good one.
10. Reboot.

For further support, questions, comments, etc., please email calitech@cali.org

Some feedback we recieved about the conference...

The intersession time was just as important as the sessions were and the food was outstanding! Chocolate-covered strawberries...mmmmm.

We had a great time! Thanks to everyone who worked so hard to put it together!

I had a wonderful time at the conference (and learned a lot too).

Thanks much to all of the speakers and our gracious hosts at UW!

John Mayer

The archived webcast video is now available for the 2004 Conference for Law School Computing^®.  Some 60 sessions dealing with topics from distance education to ABA standards to blogging are now linked through the 2004 Conference agenda.  To view the webcast for a particular session, locate the session on the agenda and follow the webcast in the session description.  All webcasts require Windows Media Player 9.

In addition to the webcasts, many sessions include Power Point presentations and/or other documents.  Not all of the presentations are linked at this time, so check back if there are no slides available for the session you are interested in.

Announcing 'My Conference', a page for your personalized Conference for Law School Computing^® information.  Need to print an invoice?  Check on the status of your conference registration? See the latest agenda?  Get hotel information?  Make dinner cruise reservations?  All this and more is at your finger tips from the 'My Conference' web page.

Once you register for the 2004 Conference for Law School Computing^® being held Thursday - Saturday, June 17 - 19, 2004 at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle, WA, you will see a new entry under the 'My CALI' heading of your CALI website menu.  Clicking on 'My Conference' gives you access to the most current information about this year's exciting conference.  New information is being added as we move closer to the conference, so remember to login and check out 'My Conference' often.

The very, very preliminary agenda for the 2004 Conference for Law School Computing® is now online.  This year's conference will include something for everyone with sessions on distance education, website development, security, using CALI tools, IT management, and much more.  After you check out the agenda, visit the conference registration page to register.  See you in Seattle!

You can NOW REGISTER for the 2004 CALI Conference to be held June 17-19, 2004 in Seattle, WA at the University of Washington School of Law - William H. Gates Hall. 

The web cast archive of proceedings from the Consortium for Distance Education - CALI (CODEC) Conference held February 13, 2004 at the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law is now available here.  The archive includes both audio-only and full audio/video versions of all the presentations and the conference wrap-up session.  More information about CODEC is available here. 

The Administrative Law lessons can now be run in your web browser. You no longer need to download and install them.

On Tuesday February 17, 2004 the DNS record for lessons.cali.org was changed to point to the new website.  This means that all web traffic headed to lessons.cali.org is now sent to www2.cali.org and redirected as necessary.  The primary impact is to members using links from TWEN and the old URL Builder system.  These links now point to the appropriate lessons on the new website and students will need to register and login in order to access the linked lessons.

Problems with the transition should be reported to webmaster at cali.org.

You can now get the latest CALI Spotlight news in your favorite aggregator.  A valid RSS 2.0 feed of CALI Spotlight headlines is available here.  The feed updates whenever a new item is added to the CALI Spotlight.

CALI's new initiative in Distance Legal Education.  Read the draft proposal at the CODEC website.

CALI launched the first stage of a new website layout today and added a feature to help members stay up-to-date on CALI news and events. 

The layout restyling includes a change of color scheme to make it easier to read and adjustments to the cascading style sheet (CSS) that controls the layout to make it more fluid in smaller browser windows.  In coming weeks additional adjustments will be made to the CSS to make it even more adaptable to various browsers.  Also, the site navigation system will be overhauled bringing a new look to the right hand menu and drop down menus to the top navigation scheme.

Introducing CALI Spotlight!  The CALI Spotlight feature brings the latest news about CALI to a central, regularly updated location.  Spotlight headlines are included on the right hand menu of the CALI website with full text available on the CALI Spotlight page.  Soon a RSS feed will be available allowing you to stay current with CALI news and events.  Be sure to check CALI Spotlight for information on the newest CALI Lessons, events, conferences, website updates, and more.