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Foreign Law Guide – An Excellent Source for Foreign Law From Nearly 200 Jurisdictions

We are now a proud subscriber to Foreign Law Guide,

which is a super source for sources of current foreign codes and basic legislation for most countries of the world. If you click on the above link from anywhere within the law school building (including wireless users), you should be able to just click on “Subscriber Login” to access this database.

Filed under: Cool links, Foreign Law, Library

CALI authorization codes are not passwords

Folks,
Just a gentle reminder for those of you charged with distributing the
CALI authorization codes needed to complete registration on the CALI
website that the codes are _not_ passwords. Please make sure that you
are letting faculty, staff, and students know that they still need to
register on the site before using Lessons, etc. I suspect that
somewhere along the food chain the authorization codes are being handed
out without adequate explanation and as a result some students and
faculty are simply trying to login with an email address and the auth
code as the password. That doesn’t work:)
I’d appreciate it if you would take a few minutes and make sure that
adequate instructions on how to use the authorization codes are
available to whoever is handing them out.
Thanks,
Elmer.


Elmer R. Masters
Director of Internet Development
Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction

Filed under: Uncategorized

Who says legal opinions have to be boring?

Filed under: Courts, Fun

Why lawyers get a bad name

If you were wondering why public opinion of lawyers is so low, read Titan Of Torts Is Taken Down. I bet he didn’t absorb what he learned in Professional Responsibility class. If he even took it.

Filed under: Law School, News, law firms

Google Docs in Plain English

A cute video demonstrating how to use Google Docs. Enjoy

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Video : Gene Koo on New Skills, New Learning

Filed under: Law School, Teaching, Technology, advice

Success in Law School

Want to succeed in law school? Then you might want to improve your critical reading skills, according to an article linked to by Betsy McKenzie in Out of the Jungle: Critical Reading Skills Key to Success in Law School.

Filed under: Law School

There’s more to life than law school

One of the first things the dean of my law school said to my first year class was that there was more to life than law school (his actual words were a bit more pungent). So I had to grin when I saw so many students wearing Ravens jerseys today in honor of tonight’s game against the Bengals. Now if only the library had a TV room….

Filed under: Law School

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