Professor Gordon Smith
Lewis & Clark College Northwestern School of Law
dgsmith@lclark.edu

Professor Andrea Johnson
California Western University School of Law
alj@cwsl.edu

Professor Smith and a colleague have devised a course to be taught in the Spring of 1998 at several law schools at the same time. Students at each school will organize themselves into "courts" under a local faculty supervisor. The course is administered via the Web and will include a discussion list and a document archive for opinions rendered by the student courts.

Professor Johnson has used video-conferencing to link classrooms at different law schools and to access professionals in the legal community. Students engage in point-to-point and point to multipoint sessions where students roleplay and engage in simulations which are observed and critiqued by law faculty, government officials, and legal experts. Students use the Internet and discussion lists to explore interdisciplinary issues in intellectual property, administrative law, antitrust, and constitutional law.