New CALI Lessons
CALI – the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction – offers hundreds of online lessons that can help you study for exams. If you’re a student and haven’t registered yet for CALI, the information you need is here.
CALI consistently adds new lessons. Here are a few of the most recent ones:
Article III and Agency Adjudicative Power
This lesson explores the constitutional limitations on agency adjudicative authority stemming from Article III’s commitment of the judicial power to Article III courts.
This lesson addresses the creation and exercise of a power of appointment. The lesson discusses the different parties involved in the creation of a power of appointment. The lesson includes a variety of problems designed to test the student’s understanding of the rules governing the power of appointment.
This lesson focuses primarily on the federal Freedom of Information Act. The lesson begins with an overview on the origins of the Act and its basic structure. The lesson then examines threshold questions that a user of the Freedom of Information Act must consider, and key questions for analysis and application. This lesson examines which agencies are subject to the Freedom of Information Act, whether the document sought is a “record” under the Act, and finally, are any exemptions applicable.
Negotiable Instruments: Who Is a Holder in Due Course?
This lesson is designed to teach you how to figure out whether a person is a Holder in Due Course. It can be used as an introduction or for reinforcement. It would be best if you did the following lessons before this one: What is a Negotiable Instrument; Travel of a Negotiable Instrument; and The Cast of Characters in Negotiable Instruments.
Client Letters – Ethical and Professional Considerations
This CALI lesson will introduce you to the ethical considerations associated with writing client advice letters. The lesson is intended for a first year law student currently taking a legal writing course. No previous knowledge of ethics is presumed.
A series of explanations and questions will guide you through a basic introduction to the regulation of attorney conduct. You will then examine how ethical considerations influence the lawyering skills associated with the preparation of advice letters.
