45min
(Only presenters Larson and Jones will be in person. Williams and Bordatto will be remote.)
The presenters are editors and contributors to the first 1L legal writing textbook to come out of CALI/eLangdell® Press and one of the first to be published at all. CALI published Legal Argumentation: Reasoning and writing about the law in May. Those involved in the project are excited about the quality of the final work (and are still scrambling to finish the Teaching Manual).
The contributors were excited, too, about building a legal writing textbook that would be an open educational resource. This openness extended to typesetting the text using the open-source typesetting language LaTeX (which is popular in the scientific disciplines). We will begin the presentation with a brief tour of the resulting volume, which is designed to be used principally in PDF form, with extensive navigation tools available in that format.
But with nine editors and nine contributors writing nearly 500 pages of original material, you can imagine there were some bumps in the road. The presenters point out some of their locations and offer a roadmap to managing similar projects, if anyone ever dares to take one on!