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Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction

Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI)
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Founded June 22, 1982; 34 years ago (1982-06-22)
Founder Harvard Law School and University of Minnesota Law School
Type Education
Focus Legal Education, Technology, Access to Justice
Location
Area served
United States, Some International
Product CALI Lessons, A2J author, eLangdell Press, Classcaster, CALI Excellence for the Future Awards
Method Computer-Aided Learning and Teaching
Members
200+ US Law Schools
30+ Undergraduate Programs
Various Other Organizations and Schools
Key people
Executive Director, John P. Mayer
Director of Internet Development, Elmer Masters
Director of Curriculum Development, Deb Quentel
Software Services Manager, Sam Goshorn
Systems Administrator, Dan Nagy
Marketing Coordinator, Scott Lee
Content Coordinator, Jessica Frank
Membership Coordinator, Ronella Norris
Employees
8
Mission Improve legal education through innovation and technology.
Website http://www.cali.org

The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, also known as CALI, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit consortium of mostly US law schools that conducts applied research and development in the area of computer-mediated legal education. The organization is best known in law schools for CALI Lessons, online interactive tutorials in legal subjects, and CALI Excellence for the Future Awards (CALI Awards), given to the highest scorer in a law-school course at many CALI member law schools. Nearly every US law school is a member of CALI.

CALI was incorporated in 1982 in the state of Minnesota by the University of Minnesota Law School and Harvard Law School. The cost of membership to CALI is US$7,500 per year for US law schools; free for legal-aid organizations, library schools, state and county law librarians; and US$250 per year for law firms, paralegal programs, undergraduate departments, government agencies, individuals, and other organizations.

In the early 1980s, CALI set the precedent for creation and use of computer-assisted legal instruction exercises. CALI pioneered pre-packaged, interactive, computer-based legal education materials in text form with its CALI Lessons. CALI Lessons are web-based tutorials on a variety of legal subjects known as CALI Lessons. Currently there are over 1,000 lessons in over 40 law school subjects in CALI's library of lessons. The lessons are free to all CALI member schools' students.

Tutorials are authored by law faculty using CALI's lesson authoring software called CALI Author. CALI Author is available to download for free by member school faculty.

CALI sponsors an annual conference with computer-related programming for law school professionals. The annual CALI conferences "have been a focal point for the interchange of ideas and innovation in legal education."

CALI first hosted The Conference for Law School Computing in 1991 (then known as the Conference for Law School Computing Professionals) at Chicago-Kent. From 1991 to 1994 the conference was hosted at Chicago-Kent, and since 1995 the conference has been hosted on-site by various CALI member law schools.


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