Accepted sessions

Session Experience level Track
H2O - Create Free Adaptable Digital Casebooks
Dustin Lewis, Harvard Law School

The Harvard Law School Library and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society have developed an open-source suite of online classroom tools called H2O...

Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
High Performance Infrastructure and Slick Data --OR-- Is it smoking yet?
Daniel Nagy, REVIEW

 

Intermediate
Librarian
Technologist
How do you deliver?... An example of how technology has changed the face of meetings and collaboration.
Shante Clark-Davis, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law
Asmara Tekle, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law
Stephen Zapatka, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law

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Intermediate
Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
How Do You Drive Innovation in Law School and\or the Legal Community?
Chris Bombardo, University of Tennessee College of Law
Phillip Bohl, Pepperdine University School of Law
Tom Ryan, Rutgers, The State University of NJ, Camden

What does it mean to innovate in law school technology?  Is your school following or innovating  in technology?  What does it take for your IT Team to go from the standard...

Beginner
Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
How to Create a Distance Education Course
Deb Quentel, CALI

The ABA Standards dictate the number of online credits that a student can obtain for an ABA – accredited law school J.D. program. In contrast, LL.M. programs are not constrained by the same...

Faculty
Technologist
How to Steer with 20 Hands on the Wheel: Tech Tools That Guide and Stimulate Collaboration
Benjamin Carlson, Villanova University School of Law
Lori Strickler, Villanova University School of Law

We are often asked to take on projects that may be outside our comfort zone, particularly when those projects involve new technology.  A substantial part of the process in any big digital...

Intermediate
Librarian
Technologist
Individualized Education: Using Online Tools and Videos to Reach All Students
Angela Upchurch, Capital University School of Law
Cynthia Ho, Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Students have increasingly diverse educational needs.  As educators, we must meet these needs and prepare our students to enter a demanding and competitive job market.  How do you meet...

Beginner
Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
Law Professor Blogs Network 2.0: Faculty, IT and Vendor Collaboration
Paul Caron, Pepperdine University School of Law
David Dickens, Pepperdine University School of Law
Christopher Bollman, Round Pixel Studio

After nine years, the Law Professor Blogs Network of 40+ blogs is undertaking an evolutionary (not revolutionary) re-design. A faculty member, law school technologist, and outside vendor will talk...

Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
Law School "Classrooms" of the Future: Teaching Legal Skills in a Connected World
Larry Farmer, Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School

The past decade has seen rapid expansion in the use of online methods to supplement, and even replace, traditional classroom instruction. The rate of change in education brought about by online...

Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
Law Schools and the Free Access to Law Movement
Elmer Masters, CALI
Sarah Glassmeyer, CALI
Thomas Bruce, Cornell Law School

I've watched the ideas about free and open access to primary legal materials bounce around law schools for the past 20 years. How have things changed? How have they stayed the same? Does it...

Beginner
Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
Learning from Mistakes
Barbara Glesner Fines, University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law

My Top Ten Mistakes in Using Technology in Teaching

Faculty
Lecture Capture Has A New Name
Adam Martin, University of South Carolina School of Law
Will Monroe, Louisiana State University Law Center

Lecture Capture Technology is no longer strictly for Lecture Capture. Lecture capture technology has been promoted for years as a one way medium. Recording classroom lectures, presentations,...

Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
Legal Education in Crisis, and Why Law Libraries Are Doomed
James Milles, State University of New York - Buffalo School of Law
Kenneth Hirsh, University of Cincinnati College of Law

Abstract: The dual crises facing legal education—the economic crisis affecting both the job market and the pool of law school applicants, and the crisis of confidence in the ability of...

Intermediate
Faculty
Librarian
Legal Education, Technology, Law Practice: Intersecting Goals and CALI Projects
John Mayer, CALI

CALI is embarked on multiple large projects with overlapping goals.  
eLangdell is about electronic casebooks, but it's also about re-imaginging the course materials and pedagogy of...

Beginner
Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
New Jersey Statutes Online: A little better
John Joergensen, Rutgers, The State University of NJ, Newark

With the State of New Jersey considering the potential costs of adopting UELMA, it was important to show how the N.J. Statutes could be made available cheaply, and in an UELMA compliant manner....

Intermediate Librarian
One Less Textbook To Drag Around: Creating an Online Learning Experience for 1L Legal Skills Students
Lucie Olejnikova, Pace University School of Law
Cynthia Pittson, Pace University School of Law

 

Intermediate
Faculty
Librarian
Preparing Future Lawyers to Find Their Inner Veronica Mars: Teaching students how to use Facebook, Twitter, and other social media for investigative purposes in legal practice
Andrea Alexander, Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law
Ellen Richardson, Boston University Pappas Law Library

In an increasingly competitive economic climate, the hard truth is that many young lawyers will, either by choice or by necessity, go into small firms or solo practice.  As librarians, we can...

Faculty
Librarian
Reaching Students Where They Are: Ensuring Universal Accessibility in Online Instruction
Susan deMaine, Indiana University - Indianapolis School of Law
Ed Finn, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law

Since 2010, the librarians at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law have been teaching a required, for-credit legal research class fully online. Over the intervening three years...

Intermediate
Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
SCALEs, FAILS, and Epic Tales of Clinic renovations: When SCALE-UP goes from Student Centered to Student Censured
Cyndi Johnson, University of New Mexico School of Law
Tony Anderson, University of New Mexico School of Law
Chad Covey, University of New Mexico School of Law

 The UNM School of Law recently received funding for a much-needed clinic renovation and technology upgrade. After months of research, planning, and meetings, we finally hammered out all the...

Beginner
Faculty
Technologist
Securities Lawyer's Deskbook Rebooted
Sara Frug, Cornell Law School
Kenneth Hirsh, University of Cincinnati College of Law

Last year at CALI, University of Cincinnati Law Librarian Ken Hirsh and the LII crew cooked up a scheme to streamline the process of maintaining the Securities Lawyer's Deskbook, an extremely...

Beginner
Faculty
Librarian
Technologist

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