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Open Legal Educational Materials: The Frequently Asked Questions, James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins
Open Legal Educational Materials: The Frequently Asked Questions, James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins
Faculty Scholarship
There has been considerable discussion in academic circles about the possibility of moving toward open educational materials—those which may be shared, copied and altered freely, without permission or fee. Legal education is particularly ripe for such a transition, as many of the source materials—including federal statutes and cases—are in the public domain. In this article, we discuss our experience producing an open casebook and statutory supplement on Intellectual Property Law, and answer many of the frequently asked questions about the project. Obviously, open coursebooks are less expensive and more convenient for students. But we found that they also offer pedagogical …
Open Access In Law Teaching: A New Approach To Legal Education, Matthew T. Bodie
Open Access In Law Teaching: A New Approach To Legal Education, Matthew T. Bodie
All Faculty Scholarship
The "open access" movement seeks to change our approach to the distribution of scholarship in the fields of science, medicine, the social sciences, and law. This Essay argues for the application of these principles to legal education itself. Open access would mean greater flexibility, interaction, and innovation in the creation of course materials. It would lead to new teaching methods and new forms of feedback between student and professor. Open access centers on particular legal subject areas could facilitate national and international collaboration. Ultimately, the open access law school would ameliorate the growing standardization and commodification of legal education by …
Copyright Law: Cases And Materials, Marshall A. Leaffer
Copyright Law: Cases And Materials, Marshall A. Leaffer
Vanderbilt Law Review
Interest in copyright law is on the upswing. The reason is simple: copyright law, and more generally, intellectual property law, is the law for the information age. The subject touches not only the traditional concerns of artists, writers, and musicians, but also reaches the cable television and computer industries as well as future technologies not yet thought of. I predict course offerings on copyright and intellectual property law will proliferate. Before publication of Craig Joyce's Copyright Law, the growing market for copyright casebooks was already well served by three excellent and diverse works' that would satisfy all tastes and approaches …