Thursday, September 1, 2011

CALI Tutorials

Want to learn about a new area of law or review for an upcoming exam? Need to work on your legal writing or research skills? Try a CALI exercise!

The Center for Computer Assisted Legal Research (CALI) creates and distributes CALI Lessons, a library of over 850 interactive tutorials in a variety of legal subjects written by law school professors and librarians. Exercises range from about 10 minutes to several hours depending on the complexity of the topic. Students, faculty & staff at the Sturm College of Law have unlimited access to CALI tutorials and podcasts. And CALI lessons work on mobile devices like iPads and iPhones.

Register for a free CALI password at www.cali.org so that you can access additional features and the new material that is released throughout the year. Just use our school code to register (see the Databases / Indexes section of the Law Library's website for more information), you will need your DU ID to access. Colorado specific CALI tutorials cover both primary and secondary resources.

Or if you prefer CD-Rom access, stop by the Reference Desk or the Educational Technology office to pick up your own copy of the current CALI exercises on disk.