Liveblogging the Future of the Law School Casebook workshop part 4

This final segment of the workshop, excepting dinner, asks participants, "Where do we go from here?" Ron Collins now believes "the future is only across the street" -- it is not that far away, if we can collaborate.

Specific ideas after the jump.

• Pick one first-year subject that spans all schools in which to work out all the kinks
• Berkman & CALI is convening such a meeting, in the cyberlaw area
• Law schools can open their law journals for open access to unknot the problem identified in the last session
• Create a consortium in which law schools buy out one of the top casebooks to put into a desired platform
• Chip in for an extreme course makeover. "Pimp my course" :)
• Open this conversation to a wider public participation (this was a closed workshop)
• AALS session: how to do this, get a big room of people on board
• Or a summer program / writer's retreat, rather than at AALS
• Collaborate among publishers so we don't have separate, non-interoperable silos.
• Publishers: join IDEF to support standards as they converge. PDF + EPub, etc. They may not be the best, but they are going to be standard.
• We want one platform, not unlike iTunes -- creators should be able to sell/offer their materials without having their own music stores.
• CALI, as a nonprofit consortium of almost all American law schools, stand ready to provide that platform, open-source if desired.
• So does Sony (not the nonprofit part)
• We need both motivation and training for professors, once we have a platform to push them into
• Build a prototype to get people excited.

Official notes for session 4