Category Archives: CALI Spotlight

Posts by CALI staffers. Thoughts, opinions, and ideas about technology and innovation in legal education.

Learn to Make Ebooks at CALIcon12

It’s getting easier to publish ebooks using freely available tools like Sigil and Calibre. What’s this have to do with your law school? Think open, ebook versions of your law reviews, journals, or custom course materials. All published in-house and … Continue reading

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CALI partnering with Chicago-Kent for pilot law school clinics program

We at CALI are very excited Chicago-Kent’s Cyber Clinics pilot project. “The goal of the project is to help establish cyber clinics as a permanent part of U.S. law school education,” Professor Staudt said. “Cyber clinics are law school courses … Continue reading

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Adopt free, open legal ed materials.

We’re asking legal educators to consider adopting free, open eLangdell books and supplements for their Summer or Fall classes. Consider the advantages of free, open education materials: Free for students or faculty to download, and cheap to print. Multiple formats … Continue reading

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A Book Is A Book And Other Thoughts On Our Webby Future

In February I wrote that every book is a website and we need to embrace the webiness of books. This led to some good discussion about the nature of books generally and casebooks in particular and about the nature of … Continue reading

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More to eLangdell than the “e:” How Legal Educators Can Use & Adopt Our Books.

So tell the truth. Some of you looked briefly at eLangdell and dismissed it as an e-book project. “I don’t even have an e-reader?,” “Students can’t highlight/make notes in e-books,” “I just like print,” and “What will I do with … Continue reading

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Keynote Speakers for CALI Conference Announced

The CALI Conference for Law School Computing’s agenda is starting to round out nicely. You can now review some of our accepted sessions, and today we’re very excited to announce our keynote speakers: Dave Cormier Keynote Speaker: Thursday, June 21, … Continue reading

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The Future of The (Case)Book Is The Web

Recently there has been an explosion of advances in the ebook arena. New tools, new standards and formats, and new platforms seem to be coming out every day. The rush to get books into an “e” format is on, but … Continue reading

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You can still join our free online course, Topics in Digital Law Practice!

There’s still time to join our free online course, Topics in Digital Law Practice. If you haven’t yet, register for the course and catch up by watching video of last week’s course (below). Then join us live Friday at 2pm … Continue reading

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2012 CALI Member Meeting

Want to know what we’re up to here at CALI? John Mayer, our Executive Director, gave his annual “State of CALI Address” during the 2012 CALI Member Meeting at the AALS Annual Conference in January. You can watch it here: … Continue reading

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The Garage

The stories are legendary – of great tech companies from HP to Google starting in garages. CALI didn’t exactly get its start in a garage, but I do I like to think of CALI’s booth at AALS as the “garage” … Continue reading

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