To Be Published in May 2012: Rubin, ed.: Legal Education in the Digital Age

Professor Edward L. Rubin of Vanderbilt University Law School has edited Legal Education in the Digital Age (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in May 2012).

Here is the table of contents:

Part I. Creating Digital Teaching Materials:

1. The digital path of the law. Ronald K. L. Collins and David M. Skover

2. Open source and the reinvention of legal education. Matthew T. Bodie

3. Copyright and innovation in legal course materials. R. Anthony Reese

Part II. Teaching with Digital Course Materials:

4. Digital evolution in law school course books: trade-offs, opportunities and vigilance. Lawrence A. Cunningham

5. Smarter law school casebooks. John Palfrey

6. Law games: the importance of virtual worlds and video games for the future of legal education. Gregory Silverman

7. Law students and the new law library: an old paradigm. Penny Hazelton

Part III. Reforming the Curriculum through Digital Course Materials:

8. Law school 2.0: course books in the digital age. David Vladeck

9. The new course book and the new law school curriculum. Edward Rubin

10. Casebooks, learning theory and the need to manage uncertainty. Peggy Cooper Davis.

Conference: The Future of Law Libraries: The Future Is Now?

A conference entitled The Future of Law Libraries: The Future Is Now? will be held 16 June 2011 at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Click here for the conference Webcast.

Twitter tweets from the conference are archived here in .csv format.

The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #foll11.

Click here for the conference program.

The conference will cover the following topics:

• The Law.gov legal open government data movement
• Open access law journals
• Open legal collections
• Collaborative work in law libraries
• e-Casebooks and open legal educational resources
• Human resources requirements for law libraries