SAVE $100 off the CALIcon23 in person registration fee by Friday, May 19th, 2023.

Posted on May 16, 2023 by scottlee

CALIcon23 is going to be a blast! We’re so excited to bring together some of the brightest minds in legal education this June, and we can’t wait to see what you’ll learn.

At CALIcon23, you’ll learn about how AI is changing how law professors teach, and how that has an impact on how students learn. And if you’re feeling inspired by what you’ve heard, there will be plenty of time for networking and connecting with other attendees.

So if you want to learn more about how AI is changing the way law professors teach, sign up today before tickets sell out!

Here are some of the titles of AI sessions in store for you:

  • Using AI to Write Exam
  • Questions and Teach Legal Research
  • The Other Ones: Exploring Alternative AI Tools for Enhancing Your Work
  • ChatGPT’s Robot Friends
  • CALI + AI :: Welcoming our robotic…
  • Comics + the Law: AI Art, Tools + Techniques
  • Ethical, Legal, Academic, and Practical Considerations for ChatGPT, Dall-E and Similar Generative AI for Today’s and Tomorrow’s Classroom

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to join the AI revolution in law. Register now for the CALIcon23 Conference and take the first step toward forging the future of legal education.

SAVE $100 off the in person registration fee by Friday, May 19th, 2023.
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All CALI member law schools receive a 25% discount on in-person registrations when applying your school’s CALI faculty authorization code as the promotional code.  Check with your law library for the code.

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CALIcon23 Conference to hold AI sessions

Posted on May 2, 2023 by scottlee

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​​​​​Are you ready to harness the power of Al? The CALIcon Conference is here to help you do just that! We are thrilled to announce that this year’s conference will include a series of AI sessions to explore this revolutionary technology’s exciting possibilities. AI has already transformed several industries, and the legal sector is no exception. From document review to legal writing, AI is revolutionizing the way law students do their work. Our AI sessions will give you the tools to take advantage of this technology and share amongst your colleagues.

Here are some of the titles of AI sessions in store for you:

  • Using AI to Write Exam
  • Questions and Teach Legal Research
  • The Other Ones: Exploring Alternative AI Tools for Enhancing Your Work
  • ChatGPT’s Robot Friends
  • CALI + AI :: Welcoming our robotic…
  • Comics + the Law: AI Art, Tools + Techniques
  • Ethical, Legal, Academic, and Practical Considerations for ChatGPT, Dall-E and Similar Generative AI for Today’s and Tomorrow’s Classroom

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to join the AI revolution in law. Register now for the CALIcon23 Conference and take the first step toward forging the future of legal education.
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All CALI member law schools receive a 25% discount on in-person registrations when applying your school’s CALI faculty authorization code as the promotional code.  Check with your law library for the code.

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NEW CALI Podcast that emphasizes exam strategies

Posted on April 6, 2023 by scottlee

New legal study aid announce by CALI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This podcast explains the difference between case briefing, class note-taking, smaller writing assignments, and exam essay-writing. It’s a podcast that emphasizes exam strategy as beginning early with practice exam-writing, offers encouragement and thought exercises on overcoming self-resistance to practice, and describes how to use practice as a tool to conquer “freezing” on finals.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of the podcast, the student will be able to:

  1. Explain some differences between exam writing and all other writing done in law school.
  2. Use their experience in practicing exams as preparation for the final exam.

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New CALI Lesson – Introduction to Texas Rules of Form (the “Greenback”)

Posted on March 14, 2023 by scottlee

Legal Research on the Texas Greenbook - legal studies

This lesson will help you master legal citations using the Texas Rules of Form, Fifteenth Edition (hereinafter “The Greenbook“), particularly with respect to specific rules of citation for your briefs and legal memoranda. The Greenbook at times refers to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, Twenty First Edition (hereinafter “The Bluebook”), so you may also want to have that handy for use during this lesson. Throughout this lesson, you will be given the general rules for citing different types of Texas legal authority that are covered in The Greenbook and will apply those rules to interactive exercises.

You may complete the entire lesson at one time or complete sections as you cover various parts of The Greenbook.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of the lesson, the student will be able to:
1. Understand the parts of The Greenbook and the interaction of The Greenbook and The Bluebook when citing Texas legal authorities.
2. Apply proper citation format to different types of Texas legal authorities.

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We are now accepting session proposals for CALIcon23.

Posted on February 14, 2023 by scottlee

For over 30 years, CALIcon, The Conference for Law School Computing®, has organized its schedule at nearly the last minute in order to bring the most relevant and up-to-date presentations to attendees. This year is no different and we are looking for law school faculty, librarians, and technologists with strong opinions, great ideas, interesting projects, and useful advice. Come and share and be challenged.

For 2023 we are planning the conference as an in-person, live event. We will gather at Penn Carey Law School in Philadelphia PA on Thursday and Friday, June 15 – 16, as well as providing a live stream of the full conference. We’re combining the formula that we’ve used the past couple of years with our tried and true structure that worked well for us prior to 2020. This means that we’re going to have 60-minute long sessions with thirty-minute breaks between sessions. Each session will consist of up to 3 15-minute talks with 15 minutes for discussion. We’re also accepting 30 and 45-minute-long proposals to accommodate more in-depth talks and panels.

We are planning to bring back concurrent sessions to CALIcon this year but that depends on the number of proposals submitted. We’ll need 40+ sessions to successfully bring back our multi-room format so we need your session proposal.  If your session is accepted, you should be prepared to present live in Philadelphia.

The theme for CALIcon23 is Forging the future of legal education. While we would like proposals to work with that theme, we are always flexible. The community has a voracious appetite for tech and the conference has always been the place to talk about it. Here are some topics that we think are particularly relevant today, but don’t be constrained by this list …

  • ChatGPT & other openai.com APIs: Changing legal education? Good, bad?
  • AI/ML, ethics, law, and legal education
  • Access to Justice / Teaching / Technology / Legal Education
  • Prepping law school tech for the NextGen bar exam
  • Navigating the relationship with IT – Local and University
  • Video Post Production – Tips & Tricks & Tools
  • I want to talk about Drupal or Regex or Python
  • Why isn’t there more formative assessment in law school courses?
  • What should we do to prepare for the NEXT pandemic?
  • Peer-grading software options – can students become the teacher?
  • Open casebooks, open teaching materials, open syllabi – what’s not to like?
  • LSSE says law students like/learn online just fine.
  • Online Legal Education that is not just JD – MLMs, LLMs, foreign and domestic, insourced and outsourced
  • Is 2023 the year of Tech Competency for Lawyers?
  • Can I ignore VR for a few more years?
  • What’s beyond Zoom?  (beyond polling, breakout rooms, and boring video)
  • Should all law students learn to program/blog/toot – at least a little?

To submit a session proposal, create an account on the 2023 conference website, verify it, log in, and then click the Propose a Session button on any page. This account is not tied to any other CALI login credentials. You must submit your proposal by Friday, April 7, 2023. Presenters will be notified by Friday, April 14, 2023 if their presentation is accepted.

Questions, problems, ideas, or suggestions, contact Elmer Masters – emasters@cali.org.

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Announcing new members to CALI Board of Directors

Posted on January 30, 2023 by scottlee

At its Annual Membership Meeting on Thursday, January 26, 2023, the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) re-elected two members and appointed two new members to the Board of Directors. The latest positions filled the vacancy of outgoing Board Member Professor Jane K. Winn from the University of Seattle School of Law and Dean Browne Lewis from North Carolina Central University School of Law. We greatly appreciate their contributions to supporting CALI.

All CALI Board members are unpaid volunteers.

NEW CALI BOARD MEMBERS:

  1. Maria Florencia Cornu Laport – St. Thomas University College of Law – Assistant Professor of Academic Success – BIO
  2. Joshua Kubicki – University of Richmond School of Law – Director, Legal Innovation & Entrepreneurship Program, Assistant Professor – BIO
  3. Marjorie McDiarmid – West Virginia University College of Law – Professor of Law & Technology – BIO
  4. Conrad Johnson – Columbia Law School – Clinical Professor of Law – – BIO
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Registration is Open for the CALIcon Conference 2023

Posted on January 25, 2023 by scottlee

Be amongst the first to register for the CALIcon Conference 2023!  The CALIcon Conference, also known as The Conference for Law School Computing®, is one of the longest-running legal education conferences in the United States. The conference brings together law school faculty, librarians, IT professionals, and administrators to share ideas, innovations, experiences, and best practices in legal education/technology that you can use at your law school. It is eclectic, engaging, and fun.  Don’t miss out on this opportunity!

Visit the CALIcon2023 website for all of the conference details!

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Just in time for teaching Torts & Regulation in the spring term!

Posted on December 27, 2022 by scottlee

New Tort law casebook edition by CALI eLangdell Press

Help Build the Foundation for Law School Success! CALI has released a new two-volume casebook edition for 1L classrooms that is under a Creative Commons license and FREE to download with most mobile devices and tablets.

Description: Torts and Regulation: Cases, Principles, and Institutions, Third Edition (TRCPI) is designed to bring together common law principles in the field of torts with related statutory and regulatory materials. The aim is to provide a text that introduces students to key tort principles and the way in which those tort principles have in part shaped the regulatory state and in part been supplanted by the regulatory state.

Available in Black and White or color printing.

 

Link to new Tort Law edition by CALI eLangdell Press

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New CALI Lesson: Tips on How to Talk to Your Professors

Posted on November 14, 2022 by scottlee

New CALI Lessons for Academic Support PreparationIn this lesson, we will discuss best practices to follow when deciding whether to approach a professor with a question. Also, we will cover some valuable tips that will help you get the most out of your meeting. The goal of this lesson is to help you make your interactions with faculty positive and valuable experiences.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of the lesson, the student will be able to:
1. Distinguish what steps to take when approaching a professor with a question.
2. Schedule a time to talk to your professors in a professional manner.
3. Formulate questions that make the interaction with your professor as helpful as possible.

Learn more, click here.

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New CALI Podcast – Value and Rights in the Collateral: Discussions in Secured Transactions

Posted on October 31, 2022 by scottlee

Secured Transaction Law Podcast

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This podcast focuses on two of the elements needed to attach a security interest to collateral under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code: value given and a debtor’s rights in the collateral. The security agreement requirement is the subject of a separate podcast.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of the podcast, the student will be able to:
1.    Recall the definition of a security interest as provided in U.C.C. § 1-201(35).
2.    Identify two of the key elements of attachment of a security interest: (i) value given; and (ii) the debtor having rights to the collateral, per U.C.C. § 9-203.
3.    Describe the various ways one can satisfy the value requirement as provided in U.C.C. § 1-204.
4.    Describe the various ways in which the debtor can have rights to the collateral.

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File CT11_10P-Value-and-Rights-in-the-Collateral.docx

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