The Most Comprehensive, Free Study Tool You Didn't Know About
This blog post was written by Laura Moore, a Penn Law 2L and past Biddle Law Library research assistant.
The Center for Computer Assisted Legal Education (“CALI”) offers over 850 online lessons to law students and lawyers. These free lessons cover over 40 topics, ranging from 1L core class subjects to advanced topics, such as interviewing counseling and legal writing. These interactive courses, written by professors and law librarians across the country, feature subject outlines and exercises to teach and refine a student’s understanding of basic substantive law and analytical skills. The lessons are great study tools for day-to-day comprehension as well as final exam preparation.
Within the Administrative Law topic heading, for example, students can access 28 lessons ranging from adjudicative rules to unlawful delegation. Under one such lesson regarding Chevron Deference, users are greeted with an introduction of the subject matter and given lessons and examples of when to apply Chevron and how Chevron Deference contrasts with Skidmore Deference. Quizzes test the user’s knowledge throughout the lesson. Here, the student must determine the validity of four statements about Chevron’s scope:
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