Form E-mail/Letter for Law Faculty
Updated: July 25, 2008
One of our best CALI advocates, Andrew Pulau Evans of Washburn School of Law, drops a letter in faculty mailboxes at his school to inform them about CALI. The text below is based on, and in some cases borrowed from, his letter.
Hand out a letter or send an email like this once or twice a year to remind your professors about CALI.
Copy and paste the text below. Edit as you wish and don't forget to add authorization codes where applicable!
Dear Professor,
Our school is a member of the non-profit Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI). Please see the law library for the latest CALI DVD-ROM or access CALI on the web at www.cali.org.
If you have not reviewed CALI materials in awhile (or ever), you should take a look. CALI has over 700 computer-based tutorials for students, covering 33 different legal subject areas.
In the last several years, CALI has formed
fellowships consisting of your fellow law professors. These fellowships have produced a number of high-quality lessons in Crim. Law, Property,
Remedies, Trademark, Copyright, Bus. Associations, Torts, and Family Law. Further, all CALI lessons are reviewed by the CALI Editorial Board, again, consisting of your peers.
Today's law students find the interactive nature of CALI lessons to be extremely helpful as a supplement to class readings. Assigning or suggesting CALI lessons that you find helpful is a fantastic way for students to learn concepts outside of class.
And students especially appreciate CALI lessons as some of the only free,
high-quality educational materials available to them as law students.
Here are a few more thoughts
straight from students around the country regarding CALI:
- I
find the lessons to be extremely helpful in clarifying the rules of law. It is
definitely a great way to help build confidence in your understanding of the
legal concepts! --1L
- I
have found the CALI lessons to be a great tool for review. The explanations and
questions reinforce the concepts and theories corresponding to my law class.
I'm very grateful to have this website. It has made real impact on my
understanding of the law.
--1L - The
CALI lessons are a great place to solidify the concepts learned in class. After
I read the material and did my outline, I went to the CALI lesson and everything
just gelled. Essential tool. --1L
You should consider incorporating CALI lessons in your curriculum or, at least, letting
students know that these lessons are available.
To create a new online account
at cali.org, our school’s authorization code for faculty is YOUR FACULTY CODE HERE. This code should not be given to students. After submitting your faculty code, you will
personalize your username and password for cali.org; thus, you only need the authorization code once.
The authorization code for students
is YOUR STUDENT CODE HERE. Please share this code with students. Feel free to
contact me if you have any questions.
Thank you,
