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.

DPLLA: Digital Public Law Library of America

Interesting tweets about a proposed, free, and open Digital Public Law Library of America ( #DPLLA ) started/inspired by @emasters @johnpmayer @jpalfrey @kenhirsh . (Elmer’s #OccupytheLaw tweet immediately preceded this thread.) See especially Dean Palfrey’s chair lecture and article.

Danner and Palfrey on Open Access to Legal Information

Senior Associate Dean Richard A. Danner of the Duke University School of Law, and Vice Dean John G. Palfrey of the Harvard Law School, presented papers at a program on Open Access to Legal Information, at CAFLL 2011: The Chinese and American Forum on Legal Information and Law Libraries, on 22 July 2011, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

For full text of the papers, please contact the authors.

Click here for the conference program.

Palfrey on The Path of Legal Information

Vice Dean John G. Palfrey of the Harvard Law School recently gave a lecture entitled The Path of Legal Information, on 9 November 2010, at the Harvard Law School.

In his lecture, Dean Palfrey proposes the development of an open, interoperable system of digital legal information, and describes possible consequences of such a system for legal scholars, law students, citizens, and government.

The system proposed seems consistent with the objectives of the free access to law movement and the Law.gov legal open government data movement.

Click here for video of the lecture.

Click here for Dean Palfrey’s abstract of the lecture.

Palfrey on Cornerstones of Law Libraries for an Era of Digital-Plus

Vice Dean John Palfrey of the Harvard Law School has published Cornerstones of Law Libraries for an Era of Digital-Plus, 102 Law Library Journal No. 2, pages 171-190 (2010). Here is the abstract:

Law librarians would be well served by sharing a vision for the future of legal information, one that is informed by the methods of multiple disciplines and that will promote democratic ideals. This shared vision could guide us as we continue to lay the cornerstones for law libraries in a “digital-plus” era.