Ann Priestley, M.A., has posted #lawmoocs: law schools, law teachers and MOOCs, at Danegeld.
The post includes links to legal Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offered on a variety of platforms.
Providers listed include Coursera, edX, Canvas, CourseSites, P2PU, LawMeets, The Sorbonne, and CALI.
Ms. Priestley says she welcomes news of additional MOOCs not yet listed in her post.
HT @annindk
Several legal informatics papers are being presented at BILETA 2013: The 28th Annual Conference of the British and Irish Legal Educational Technology Association, being held 10-12 April 2013 in Liverpool, England, UK.
Click here for the conference program and abstracts.
The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #bileta13
Click here for archived Twitter tweets from the conference.
Here are the authors and titles of the legal informatics papers I was able to identify (click here for abstracts of these papers and other papers from the conference):
Proposals are now invited for talks at the ReInventLaw London 2013 Conference, to be held 14 June 2013, in London, England.
The proposal submission deadline is 5 April 2013.
The conference is organized by Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz and Professor Renee Newman Knake of the ReInventLaw Laboratory at Michigan State University College of Law.
Talks will be chosen by a crowdsourced voting process.
Here are the proposal guidelines:
Talks must relate to some aspect of law + technology + innovation + entrepreneurship.
This is about big ideas—no sales pitches or product pushing.
Submit a talk pitch of 300 words or a link to a 30 second YouTube video by midnight April 5, 2013.
Voting opens after submission window is complete at http://www.ReInventLawLondon.com
One person, one vote—but feel free to encourage colleagues, friends, family and more to vote for your pitch!
Winners will have up to 10 minutes to speak, and will then respond to dynamic, real-time, audience-driven Q&A. [...]
For more details, please see the conference Website.
HT @reneeknake
The new issue of European Journal of Law and Technology (Volume 4, Number 1, 2013) is a special issue that contains several papers on legal educational technology, first presented at BILETA 2012: Conference of the British & Irish Legal Educational Technology Association, held 29-30 March 2012 in Newcastle, England, UK.
Here are the contents related to legal educational technology:
HT @nzjudi
Dr. Margaret Hagan of Stanford Law School has launched Open Law Lab, “an initiative to design law – to make it more accessible, more usable, and more engaging.”
Dr. Hagan says that the Lab currently is a nonprofit collaborative project among law students.
The Lab’s work currently addresses:
For more information, please see the Open Law Lab Website.
HT @margarethagan here and here
Professor Dr. Laura Donohue of Georgetown University Law Center has published National Security Pedagogy: The Role of Simulations, forthcoming in Journal of National Security Law and Policy, volume 6(2).
Here is the abstract:
This article challenges the dominant pedagogical assumptions in the legal academy. It begins by briefly considering the state of the field of national security, noting the rapid expansion in employment and the breadth of related positions that have been created post-9/11. It considers, in the process, how the legal academy has, as an institutional matter, responded to the demand. [...]
The article thus proposes in Part V a new model for national security legal education, based on innovations currently underway at Georgetown Law. NSL Sim 2.0 adapts a doctrinal course to the special needs of national security. Course design is preceded by careful regulatory, statutory, and Constitutional analysis, paired with policy considerations. The course takes advantage of new and emerging technologies to immerse students in a multi-day, real-world exercise, which forces students to deal with an information-rich environment, rapidly changing facts, and abbreviated timelines. It points to a new model of legal education that advances students in the pedagogical goals identified above, while complementing, rather than supplanting, the critical intellectual discourse that underlies the value of higher legal education.
Elmer Masters, JD, MLS, of CALI, has posted Hackthelaw: Piratebox meets Free Law, at his blog, <CONTENT /> v.5.
Here is an excerpt:
The hackthelaw box is an open, anonymous network stocked with primary and secondary legal materials that are freely available for download. People can connect to the network and download any of the materials as well as chat with others connected to the network. All this is in a closed network space separate from the Internet. I can easily imagine setting this up in a library as a way for folks to access legal materials and even ask basic questions about the resources. Any device that has WiFi can connect to the network, so folks could download materials directly to their phones or tablets as well as laptops. Consider hackthelaw as another Free Law access point.
Beyond being a distribution node for Free Law, devices like hackthelaw have potential uses in legal education and practice. A closed private network could be used to distribute and receive law school exams. A professor could launch a network at the beginning of a class to provide students with that day’s material. In practice such a device could be used for gather initial client intake information. In conferences or negotiations a private network could handle the exchange of documents between parties. There are lots of possibilities here, and, as time becomes available, I hope to be looking into some of them in the not too distant future.
If you’re interested, I’ll be running some sort of hackthelaw device at the CALI booth in the AALS exhibit hall in New Orleans, January 4 -6, 2013.
HT @emasters
Professor Oliver Goodenough of Vermont Law School and Harvard’s Berkman Center Law Lab, and Assistant Dean Rebecca Purdom of Vermont Law School, have published Reimagining Legal Education, Huffington Post, 5 September 2012.
Summary:
[...] We need to invent ways to realize the goals of modern [legal] education in the new [technological] modalities and forms on their own terms, uncoupled from the old structures of classroom, text, and homework. In the process, we will create new forms of pedagogy and new goals for learning that will connect our students with a richer, more nuanced, and increasingly capable understanding of the complicated world of 21st century law. [...]
As an example the authors describe a law-school evidence course in which the content is delivered via an interactive computer game.
For more information, please see the complete post.
A call for presentation proposals — with submission deadline of 15 October 2012 — has been issued for ReInventLaw Dubai 2012: “an ‘un’conference devoted to law, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship” — to be held 10 December 2012 at Media City in Dubai.
The organizers particularly welcome presentations about innovations in legal services or legal education. Presentations can take the form of 6 Minute Ignite Style Presentations or 12 Minute “TED Style” Presentations.
Registration is free.
The event Website describes the event as follows:
ReInvent Law Dubai is an “un”conference devoted to law, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Anyone interested in the future of law or technology or entrepreneurship will want to participate. Come hear about the innovative ideas generated by the highly-engaging atmosphere of the event!
The event is being sponsored by The ReInventLaw Laboratory at Michigan State University College of Law, and is modeled on the LawTechCamp London 2012 event held last summer.
For more information, please see the ReInventLaw Dubai 2012 Website.
HT @computational.
