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Four Steps to Help with Course Selection in Law School

Course selection plays a critical role in your success at law school. If you choose poorly, it can hurt your law school experience, your GPA, and your future career options. In this lesson, we provide you with a four-step process … Continue reading

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New CALI Lesson Available – Advanced Exam Writing – Using Cases on Final Exams

Classroom discussion focuses heavily on cases. However, end of semester final exams don’t normally reference cases. Many students don’t know how cases operate on final exams. This lesson helps students understand where cases fit in a final exam answer and … Continue reading

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Teaching US Federal Income Taxation Law? Check out this OER casebook

   Creative Commons licensed. Peer-reviewed. 100% Free. DESCRIPTION This is the ninth version of this textbook, updated through December 2021 for use beginning January 2022. In addition to incorporating new law and all inflation adjustments, this edition incorporates new charts pertaining to … Continue reading

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Law School Lingo: How to Navigate A Brand New Vocabulary

If you are just starting law school, or thinking about doing so soon, it can often feel like you need to learn a foreign language. Not to mention all the abbreviations, odd acronyms, and more! This lesson is designed to … Continue reading

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Teaching Bankruptcy Law? Check out the new 4th Edition casebook entitled “Bankruptcy Law & Practice” by Prof. Germain.

Creative Commons licensed. Peer-reviewed. 100% Free.  DESCRIPTION This is the fourth edition of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, a Casebook Designed to Train Lawyers for the Practice of Bankruptcy Law. It is designed for a one-semester course in debtor/creditor law and bankruptcy. The … Continue reading

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The Center of Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) announces the appointment of five new board members.

At its Annual Membership Meeting on Wednesday, January 19, 2022, the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) Board of Directors appointed five (5) new members to fill the vacancy of outgoing Board Member Professor Debra Cohen from UDC David A. Clarke … Continue reading

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8 Reasons You Should Assign CALI Lessons to Your Students

If you teach in a US law school, you should be looking at CALI Lessons and assigning them to your students. -1- CALI Lessons are another way to learn the law CALI Lessons are another way to learn the law. … Continue reading

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The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction is awarded a grant from AccessLex Institute® to extend the CALI Law School Success Fellowship

(Chicago, IL) – October 27, 2021 – The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) has received a grant from AccessLex Institute® to extend the CALI Law School Success Fellowship. The goal of the Fellowship is to further the reach of … Continue reading

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New eLangdell Press Casebook – Bioethics and the Law: Notes, Cases, and Problems

  The purpose of bioethics is to put forth ethically acceptable solutions to the problems posed by modern medicine. The actions of healthcare providers are governed by the four principles of bioethics: autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice. The principles of … Continue reading

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Welcome our newest CALI Author – Zahr K. Said

Zahr has joined the roster of over 30 law professors that authored eLangdell Press® casebooks. These casebooks are 100% Free, Creative Commons licensed, and Peer-reviewed. And backed by additional CALI resources. Tort Law: A 21st-Century Approach Description: Tort Law: A 21st-Century … Continue reading

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