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Faculty Remote Teaching Guide

Resources on remote and hybrid teaching for Brooklyn Law School faculty

List: Inexpensive and Open-Access Casebooks

Kathleen Darvil (Associate Librarian & Adjunct Prof. @ Brooklyn Law School, Affordable Law School Course Materials

James Grimmelmann (Prof. @ Cornell Law School & Cornell Tech), Inexpensive and Open-Access Casebooks

  • Lists/links to low cost and open-access legal casebooks, arranged by legal subject.

Open Access Content Law Faculty Can Assign to Students

Collections:

CALI.org (The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction)

  • Provides open-access online legal textbooks, guides & tutorials on legal topics. 
    • Tab: Lessons supports browsing (by first-year/upper-level, by subject, by new/updated lessons)
    • Tab: Books supports browsing (by first-year/upper-level, by "coming soon")
  • Please contact askthelibrary@brooklaw.edu or text 718-734-2432 to obtain Brooklyn Law School's CALI authorization code for faculty.

CALI.org includes:

Directory of Open Access Books

Duke Law > Centers & Programs > Center for the Study of Public Domain > CSPD Publications

CSPD Publications includes:

H2O

  • Is a free platform to create, share and remix open-licensed casebooks and other legal educational materials.

Merlot Materials

  • This Merlot FAQ notes: "You can use materials discovered in MERLOT in a course however, having said that, it is important to review and abide by the Creative Commons or copyright stated on the material detail view page. This license is declared by the author. If you require more information about those rules, you must contact the author/owner and/or submitter of the material."
  • Merlot Materials: subject discipline: Law
  • Provides option to filter by: open-access textbooks, online courses and reference material.

Open Textbook Library

Semaphore Press

  • Publishes "high quality legal casebooks for digital download."  Suggests a price based "on the premise that students should, and will, pay about $1 per one-hour class session for the required reading material." "But students don't have to pay to obtain access to the material."

Links to Selected Additional Books:

NYU School of Law, Moot Court Board: Moot Course Casebook

BLS Library subscribes to this Moot Court Casebook.  Please contact askthelibrary@brooklaw.edu for access instructions.

LexisNexis & Thomson Reuters Westlaw Resources

Below are LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters Westlaw resources available to BLS faculty because BLS licenses these databases.

LexisNexis overview: Teaching Resources for Law School Faculty

  • Describes 20+ Lexis Learn legal research modules.
    • Requires a faculty member to sign in to Lexis+ > under Tools & Resources, click: Lexis Learn > click: Create Class. 
      • Students must register for this Lexis Learn class (which can include multiple "Class Modules" on various aspects of legal research).
    • BLS Associate Librarian & Adjunct Prof. Kathleen Darvil kathleen.darvil@brooklaw.edu has assigned selected Lexis Learn Class Modules in past courses and is willing to discuss Lexis Learn with BLS faculty.
  • Provides a Legal Research and Writing Center containing LexisNexis teaching toolkits, a Legal Research Exercise Bank, instructional videos and guides.
  • Includes Interactive Citation Workstation and Interactive Citation Workbook.

  • Contact for BLS faculty to obtain more information about Lexis Learn legal research modules, the Legal Research and Writing Center and Interactive Citation Workstation:

    Theia Milano                                            
    Practice Area Consultant, LexisNexis Legal & Professional 

    thiaorsam.milano@lexisnexis.com                                                                     

    tel: 1.917.435.2017                 

Thomson Reuters law school portal (which includes Westlaw) > tab: Faculty Resources 

  • Describes available Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Certifications.  For a certification overview, click here.  Available materials include video lessons and guided exercises that faculty can assign.
  • Includes Guided Exercises: Citations.
  • Thomson Reuters vendor contact for BLS faculty to obtain more information:

Mitra Niknam

Account Manager for BLS, Thomson Reuters

Mitra.Niknam@thomsonreuters.com

tel: 917.385.2659