CALIOPOLIS

Here is the link to a screencast of my presentation at AALS on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 in San Diego. I was participating in the "Redesigning Legal Education" session. I had 15 minutes to cover a lot of ground, so I apologize for my fast-talking. Here is the Powerpoint file… 2009AALSClassroomTechnology.ppt Here is an MP3 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Professor Leiter is conducting a study of law faculty scholarly productivity (methodology here). The goal (or one goal) is… "…what is the most effective and efficient way to measure the scholarly impact of a law faculty…" What if you replace the word "scholarly" with "teaching"? If you have seen this video… …then you can imagine […]

I ran across Lee Arnold’s video explaining the Bush Tax Cut some months ago and felt that it conveyed a complex topic with extreme clarity in a very short amount of time. I was gratified to see that Arnold has a series of videos on YouTube that you can access from here. What is particularly […]

I have compiled the results from the 2007 Survey of Law Students who were in podcasted courses. First, the number of students responding was a less than half from last year (120 in 2007 vs. 300 in 2006). A couple of interesting trends are noticable. More students knew about podcasting this time around. More students […]

I visit law school websites all the time and I have come to the conclusion that they fall into the following categories… The "Where in the World" website where you cannot find a mailing address to save your life and thus cannot google-map or ship anything to anyone at the school. At best they have […]

Gene Koo of the Harvard Berkman Center has published a white paper titled "New Skills, New Learning: Legal Education and the Promise of Technology". The research was sponsored by LexisNexis and the results are both insightful and cogent. I had several conversations with Gene about the project and he did a marvelous job pulling together […]

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 […]