Duke University Law School reviews its first year in automating many aspects of its annual Casenote Competition. Using shibboleth for secure login and Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP as a standard for other projects (and to keep costs down), the team designs an interface and backbone for applicant and editor pages. Students electronically submit a casenote and personal statement in PDF format. Editors for each journal grade these papers, only referring to students by alias (an anonymous competition).
We present the work of the design group to meet each journal's specifications, some implementation details, and challenges along the way.
