CALIOPOLIS

The 2008 Conference for Law School Computing will be held on Thursday – Friday, June 19 – 21, 2008 at the University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore, MD. We haven’t set up the website or even put out a call for speakers yet because I am stumped on deciding a theme for this […]

CALI’s Director of Membership, LaVonne Molde has pointed out that in my talk at AALS and in my slides, I list CALI as having only 206 U.S. law school members when that number should actually be 208! Click here for the complete list and if you are a student or faculty at a law school […]

Here is the link to the screencast version of my talk at the 2008 Annual CALI Members Meeting held on Friday, January 5, 2008 in New York during AALS. I had previously posted the podcast/audio recording and Powerpoint slides.

Here … AALS2008Carnegie.mp3 … is the recording of the AALS Session: Rethinking Legal Education For The 21st Century. The speakers included… Moderator: Edward L. Rubin, Vanderbilt University Law School Speakers: Vicki C. Jackson, Georgetown University Law Center Robert Mac Crate, Esq., Senior Counsel, Sullivan and Cromwell, New York, New York Martha L. Minow, Harvard Law […]

Here is the recording of my talk at the 2008 Annual Membership Meeting for CALI during AALS in New York, NY on January 5, 2008 … AALS2008CALIBreakfast.mp3 Here are the slides … 2008AALSBreakfast_final.ppt I will be posting a screencast version soon and posting more information about ELangdell into the future.

The Family was over to the house to celebrate Christmas yesterday. One of our many annual traditions is to sing the 12 days of Christmas with different individuals/groups handling each "number". Others are tasked to try to confuse them with alternate lyrics … hilarity ensues. Here you go… MayerFamily12days2007.mp3

Paul Caron, blog-emperor and CALI Board Member asked me to contribute to the fascinating thread about "Advice to Erwin Chemerinsky". The biggest constraint was the 250 word limit…. here’s my advice… As the Executive Director of CALI, I read a lot of feedback from students that pertains to their perceptions of legal education. The single […]

I am so excited to make this post. Here’s the press release. Cambridge, MA – Today at the 17th annual CALI Conference on Law School Computing, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and the non-profit Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) proudly announced a new partnership to stimulate innovation in […]

What does the new website, Avvo, which rates lawyers and CALI Awards have to do with each other? Read on… A new website, Avvo (shortened "avvocato" which is italian for lawyer) purports to rank lawyers based on objective algorithmic evidence… "…scores are calculated using a mathematical model, all lawyers arejudged by the same standards. The […]

Techcrunch mentions a new service called Usphere where undergrads can pay $65 to apply to 33 unnamed colleges. The colleges then send acceptances letters (or not) with the costs of tuition that the student would pay. LSAC (Law School Admissions Council and purveyors of the LSAT) has had a service for a long time where […]