Legal Profession

Legal Education in the Digital Age Edward Rubin

Cambridge University Press July 2012

Specifications

ISBN-13
9781107012202
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
July 2012
Format
Hardback , 270 pages
Jurisdiction
International ? Countri(es) for reference only

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During the coming decades, the digital revolution that has transformed so much of our world will transform legal education as well. The digital production and distribution of course materials will powerfully affect both the content and the way materials are used in the classroom and library. This collection of essays by leading legal scholars in various fields explores three aspects of this coming transformation. The first set of essays discusses the way digital materials will be created and how they will change concepts of authorship as well as methods of production and distribution. The second set explores the impact of digital materials on law school classrooms and law libraries and the third set considers the potential transformation of the curriculum that the materials are likely to produce. Taken together, these essays provide a guide to momentous changes that every legal teacher and scholar needs to understand.

• Provides a general guide to the creation, use and potential effects of digital course materials in law schools

• First general discussion of the way that the digital revolution will affect the creation, distribution, use and impact of law school course materials

• Offers a wealth of ideas for law teachers and law librarians to take advantage of coming technological changes

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
vii
Biographical Notes
ix
Introduction
Edward Rubin
1
Part I.   Creating Digital Course Materials
11
1.        The Digital Path of the Law
Ronald K. L. Collins and David M. Skover
13
2.        Open Source and the Reinvention of Legal Education
Matthew T. Bodie
34
3.        Copyright and Innovation in Legal Course Materials
R. Anthony Reese
60
Part II.  Teaching with Digital Course Materials
79
4.        Digital Evolution in Law School Course Books: Trade-Offs, Opportunities, and Vigilance
Lawrence A. Cunningham
81
5.        Smarter Law School Casebooks
John Palfrey
106
6.        Law Games: The Importance of Virtual Worlds and Serious Video Games for the Future of Legal Education
Gregory Silverman
130
7.        Law Students and the New Law Library: An Old Paradigm
Penny A. Hazelton
158
Part III. Reforming the Curriculum through Digital Course Materials
183
8.        Law School 2.0: Course Books in the Digital Age
David C. Vladeck
185
9.        The New Course Book and the New Law School Curriculum
Edward Rubin
200
10.       Casebooks, Learning Theory, and the Need to Manage Uncertainty
Peggy Cooper Davis
230
Index
249

About the Author

Edward Rubin
Vanderbilt University School of Law

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