Workshop in the Press
October 6, 2008
Creating a Paperless Law School
Connecticut Law Tribune
"It may be just a matter of time before law school students can shed their bulky books and carry them in digital form in a handheld device..."
October 1, 2008
Due Processors: Educators Seek a Digital Upgrade for Teaching Law
The Chronicle of Higher Education
"In 1871, Christopher Columbus Langdell, a prominent jurist who had joined the law faculty at Harvard University, hit on the idea of compiling thick, imposing 'casebooks' with hundreds of appeals-court rulings on particular areas of law–contracts, constitutional law, torts, and other areas. Today, the hefty tomes and related works have become the foundations of legal teaching. They have also become hopelessly outmoded..."
September 28, 2008
Law professors put printed textbooks on trial
Seattle P-I
"Law professors from around the country gathered in Seattle on Saturday to put the printed textbook on trial..."
September 22, 2008
Bulky Legal Texts Eyed for Digital Makeover
Legal Times
"The days of heavy, doorstop-sized legal casebooks-tomes that have broken the spirit if not the backs of countless law school students-are numbered..."
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September 22, 2008
Eyeing 'e-books' for future law students
The National Law Journal
"Law professors and publishing executives plan to meet later this month in Seattle to discuss how legal casebooks could be made available electronically on a widespread basis, particularly on new handheld devices such as Amazon's Kindle and the Sony Reader..."
September 10, 2008
Books a weighty issue for law schools
Seattle P-I
"Are electronic books the future? Could companies like Amazon.com and Sony have the answer to heavy book bags? To address such questions, representatives from law schools around the country, combined with book publishers and e-book device makers Amazon and Sony Electronics Inc., are expected to gather in Seattle on Sept. 27..."
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