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Category Archives: CALI Spotlight
Elmer Masters – One of the Fastcase 50!
Congratulations to CALI’s own Director of Internet Development Elmer Masters for being named one of the Fastcase 50! Created in 2011, the Fastcase 50 is an annual list of the Top 50 of “law’s smartest most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries … Continue reading
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U of Minnesota Releases “Cultivating Change in the Academy”, Highlights Future of the Book
This collection of 50+ chapters showcases a sampling of academic technology projects underway across the University of Minnesota, projects that we hope inspire other faculty and staff to consider, utilize, or perhaps even develop new solutions that have the potential … Continue reading
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Farewell to Austin Groothuis
First of all, it’s pronounced “GREAT-house”, not “grue-THEW-ee-us”. I learned that the first day I met Austin quite a few years ago when CALI hired him as a student intern. Later, we hired Austin into the newly created position of … Continue reading
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How Law Schools Could Save Students $150 Million (updated)
There are over 140,000* law students in the 201 ABA accredited law schools in the US. According to the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), higher education students spend an average of $1100 per year on books. Do the math and … Continue reading
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#CALIcon12 Wrap-Up
We’d like to thank Thomas Jefferson School of Law, sponsors, speakers, and especially attendees for making the 2012 CALI Conference for Law School Computing such a success! As we’ve done with all previous years’ video, we’ll post this year’s recorded … Continue reading
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CALI Annual Report & Infographic (A Message from John)
The 2011-2012 school year was a landmark year at CALI. I am, of course, thinking of the fact that we were founded 30 years ago, but 2012 is significant in more ways than an anniversary that happens to end with … Continue reading
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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