Watch CALI Videos on YouTube

CALI has a YouTube Channel that you can subscribe to. The CALI YouTube channel will replace the CALI Blip.TV channel.

For more information, you can read this post from CALI!

Volunteers Needed for the We the People State Competition

Attention Legal Eagles:

The North Carolina Bar Association Foundation’s Law-Related Education Advisory Committee invites you to volunteer for the We the People State Competition to be held on Friday, March 11, 2011 at the North Carolina Central University School of Law in Durham from 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

This year, we are expected to have nine schools competing and eight showcasing teams. Please consider volunteering to be a judge, facilitator or timer. This is a great opportunity to network while giving back!

For more information, visit the NCBA-LRE website. If you decide your interested, please send an email to lre@ncbar.org with your intention to participate and include your contact information.

Sit Back & Relax

Law school is stressful. From time to time, everyone needs to take a break to make sure they can continue processing information properly. If you are feeling a little stressed, I challenge you to take 2 minutes to sit and do nothing. Don’t touch your computer. Don’t chat to someone next to you. Just relax and be still.

If you need some help doing so, click here and enjoy two minutes of peace and calm.

Prof. Frances Bynum Secures Settlement in School Gang Policy Suit

Congratulations to Prof. Frances Bynum!

Prof. Bynum filed a class action lawsuit in 2006 claiming that the school system's policy on gang-related clothing was a violation of student civil rights. The case recently settled and the school district has re-written the policy.

The full article can be read here.

The Law Pod

The Law Pod develops apps for law students to use on their iPhone®, iPad®, iPod Touch®, and/or Blackberry®.

One of the pod's latest apps is LawLibe. LawLibe functions as a free mobile law library! To download LawLibe, go to the app store.

You may also want to browse the other apps available from the Law Pod because when you purchase any of the apps, you support a good cause. The Law Pod donates a portion of the revenue from the sale of its applications to provide grants and scholarships to law students in need.

"How To Succeed As a Summer Associate 2011 "-Free Seminar

Join the Practising Law Institute (PLI) and get a wealth of information.

The PLI's Law School Divison is currently offering:

1. Free and Low Cost Seminars to Law Students and Practitioners,
2. Law Student Scholarships,
3. A $950.00 Discount on a Patent Bar Review Course and
4. Access to PLI's Newsletter and Blog.

If you are interested in joining go to http://pli.edu/

Fun and games at the US Supreme Court

A new study published in the Communication Law Review entitled 'People Did Sometimes Stick Things in my Underwear': The Function of Laughter at the U.S. Supreme Court finds that Justice Scalia is the funniest justice on the bench. Justice Breyer and Chief Justice Roberts round out the top three. The study, conducted by a Texas litigation consultant, analyzed court transcripts in both print and audio formats to find where and when the court laughed. The jokes weren’t only at the expense of terrified attorneys standing before the court either – Justices also poked fun at each other, governmental institutions and agencies, and themselves. The ABA Journal highlights one of these events with the following statement made by Justice Breyer (and where the title of the study comes from). “In my experience when I was 8 or 10 or 12 years old, you know, we did take our clothes off once a day, we changed for gym, okay? And in my experience, too, people did sometimes stick things in my underwear—(Laughter). Or not my underwear. Whatever. Whatever. I was the one who did it? I don’t know.”

It’s comforting to know the Justices, in their seats of power, can have a good laugh.