Legal Education in the Digital Age Edward Rubin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107012202
Published In: July 2012
Format: Hardback , 270 pages
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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

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