Category Archives: CALI Tools

CALI’s A2J Author Used to Assist Victims of Identity Theft

From a Press Release by the National Identity Theft Victims Assistance Network (NITVAN): 8.3 million Americans become identity theft victims each year. Legal resources available to identity theft victims are limited. To help respond to the need, the National Identity … Continue reading

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Setting Up Microsoft Word 2010 To Post To Classcaster

Did you know that you can use Word 2010 to write posts for your Classcaster blog? All you need to do is follow 10 steps to setup Word so that it know about your Classcaster blog and you’re in business. … Continue reading

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2013 Federal Rules by LII Now Available on eLangdell

Once again, CALI is proud to partner with our friends at the Legal Information Institute to provide free ebooks of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and the Federal Rules of Evidence.  The 2013 Editions … Continue reading

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Professor Created Course Materials Survey

As you may know, one of the projects we work on here at CALI is eLangdell Press, which creates and distributes open law school casebooks.  We do this because we believe educational materials should be Open – that is to … 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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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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900 CALI Lessons and Counting

We just published our 900th CALI Lesson on cali.org! The 900th lesson was Professor Steve Bradford’s “Inventory and the Cost of Goods Sold.” This is a true milestone for CALI. Congratulations to Professor Bradford on another great lesson, and to … 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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