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I recently ran across a new blog that discusses current copyright issues and the most recent post is a real head-banger. As the Executive Director of CALI, I find myself dealing with copyright issues all of the time. We run a pretty tight ship and have spent a lot of effort and money to make […]

What if every law student had a blog? They could post their notes, and commentary on their learning experiences, thoughts about their school and professors. It would be sort of like a disaggregated RateMyProfessor.com, SwapNotes.com all in one. The value of websites like RateMyProfesser and SwapNotes is in the fact that they aggregate all of […]

Here are the websites that I used to construct the collage… http://swapnotes.com http://outlinedepot.com http://stu.findlaw.com/outlines/ http://www.4lawschool.com/outlines.htm http://gavel2gavel.com http://www.romingerlegal.com/outline.htm http://lawschooloutlines.net http://lawresourceexchange.com http://ihatelawschool.com ilrg.com/students/outlines/ http://www.toplawstudent.com/outlines/ I did not dig too deeply into the Google search either. There were dozens of other sites at law schools or law student sites that aggregated links to law school exam banks and […]

There seemed to be two major concerns with sites like SwapNotes.com and OutlineDepot.com (only two representative examples being discussed on the LawProf discussion list lately) … Copyright issues and, Pedagogical issues. I can’t speak to the copyright issues with authority, though I think it might be a rather nuanced problem based on my readings of […]

I lurk on the LawProf discussion list and was privy to the discussion about student note sharing websites that surrounded SwapNotes.com over the past few days. I was a bit perturbed by the vehemence of some of the responses and invited Adam Steiner who is a 3L at Cardozo Law School to talk about his […]

Are you taking a course where the instructor is using podcasting? If so, we have a survey that we would like you to take. CALI has been supporting law faculty podcasting through the Legal Education Podcasting Project for over a year now and every semester we (try to) survey law students who are in any […]

I spent a wonderful day last week at the Berkman Center and gave a fast-paced talk about past, current and future CALI projects. The Berkman folks are involved in all kinds of imaginative, challenging and exciting projects that overlap with my work at CALI in all kinds of ways. I had a great time. The […]

I am always looking for sources of interesting podcasts and one of my staff pointed me to this collection of gems. Hamline’s Conversations in Law. Lots of intersting topics relating to law, society, culture and even Malcom Gladwell, author of Blink and the Tipping Point.

Professor Garrett Power has spent 30 years writing his casebook which is titled: Constitutional Limitations on Land Use Controls, Environmental Regulations and Governmental Exactions. He has posted the 704 page PDF to SSRN and the University of Maryland’s Digital Commons website. In this 24 minute conversation, we talk about his motivations and expectations for the […]

The Harvard Business Review list of breakthrough ideas for 2007 has so many intriguing and insightful ideas that I don’t know where to begin … and so I won’t. Instead, follow the link and read grow smarter. Or listen to the podcast here.