While I am always pleased to have an article in print, I need to point out that my latest one, “Like Mark Twain: The Death of Academic Law Libraries Is An Exaggeration,” 106 Law Libr. J. 521 (2014) is not the correct version. Somewhere in the production process the edits I had submitted were lost, and a […]
Last week’s headline in Above The Law turned out to have somewhat exaggerated the lasting effects of an as-of-yet not fully explained technical glitch in software used in several states to adminster the bar exam. The software, a product called SoftTest, created and marketed by ExamSoft, is designed to let students type exam answers on […]
As a signatory to the Durham Statement and a proponent of open access to scholarship and to law, I am pleased to bring two items to your attention. Tom Bruce, co-founder and director of the Legal Information Institute, has announced the first issue of the Journal of Open Access to Law. Quoting liberally from Tom’s […]
The 23rd annual CALI Conference on Law School Computing returned to its home base at ITT Chicago-Kent School of Law last week. Like law school computing itself, the conference has matured in recent years. There were fewer sessions on doing things that “keep the trains running” and more on pedagogy, open access to law, and the […]
This question was the subject of discussion at a much-anticipated session held during the CALI Conference last week. Professor James Milles of SUNY at Buffalo and I had begun a conversation on this question, which actually began as his assertion that they are doomed in a Facebook post he made during the AALS meeting this […]
I’ve been a life-long fan of Jeopardy! and for the same length of time I’ve harbored a strong desire to be a contestant on the program. For the past few years, my colleagues, Susan Boland and Ron Jones, and I have used a “poor man’s” Jeopardy! built in a PowerPoint slide deck to give an end-of-semester […]
…after a blogging hiatus of eight months. I apologize, dear reader. (I use the singular of reader in the literal sense.) Much has gone on that has escaped my comment: in public news, the national elections; the Newtown, Connecticut shootings; the inaugural and state of the union addresses; the bombing in Boston last week. I […]
Beginning Thursday, a few hundred folks made up of librarians, technologists, faculty (membership in these three categories not necessarily exclusive to each other) and vendor reps will gather at Marquette Law School for the 21st annual CALI Conference for Law School Computing. For two and a half days participants will lead and participate in sessions […]