Creating Digital Statute Books and Casebooks

Every year, law students pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to commercial legal publishers for bulky printed statutory and regulatory supplements. Much of that material is not copyrighted and is available for free on the Internet, but law professors continue to require expensive commercial supplements and have done little to make statutes and regulations available in digital form to their students. In the spring of 2009,Professor Bradford created a digital statutory and regulatory supplement for use in his two federal securities law courses. Those materials will soon be available nationwide for free. In this program,Professor Bradford  will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of digital statute books, how he put thematerials together, the problems he encountered, and the student reaction.
 
Also in this session, Inspired by CALI's eLangdell project to provide open source course materials, frustrated by the editing of cases in current constitutional law casebooks, and enabled by the release by public.resource.org of a repository of U.S. Supreme Court opinions with nary a hint of licensing restrictions, Professor Wiseman decided to discard the casebook and to provide his students with online edited cases.
 
In this session, Professor Wiseman, who has now taught constitutional law for three semesters without a casebook, will demonstrate how his online edited cases are superior to cases in casebooks.  He will also explain (if asked) how it all works.