LibGuides: Free and Low Cost Law School Casebooks and Teaching Resources: Online Interactive Lessons & Simulations

Online Interactive Lessons

CALI This link opens in a new window
Interactive online lessons
West Academic Study Aids Online This link opens in a new window
Click on content type in the upper right and select Multiple Choice. Includes Exam Pro - Objective

Relativity Academic Partner
Relativity provides ediscovery interactive videos, text, access to a version of their ediscovery software and a step by step workbook. Contact Sue Altmeyer if interested.
Transactional Skills : How to Structure and Document a Deal
Contains simulation exercises for negotiating and drafting commercial contracts. On Bloomberg Law.

West Academic - available for purchase
Bridge to Practice Series and Developing Professional Skills. Patt v. Donner: A Simulated Casefile for Learning Civil Procedure
Simulations for Dispute Resolution (list of links)
U Missouri School of Law

Civil Procedure and Case Files (some are not low cost or free)

Buffalo Creek Class Materials
Prof. Joan Steinman, Chicago-Kent College of Law
Harvard Law School Case Studies
Low cost case files
Computer-Aided Exercises in Civil Procedure - 7th Edition Computer-Aided Exercises in Civil Procedure - 7th Edition
2014. Seems more like exam questions than simulation exercises. Some links to the CALI lessons are nonworking.
Civil Procedure: Pleading
Hillel Levin, 2011. Contains an in-class exercise for drafting a complaint.
A Documentary Companion to a Civil Action: Wi Notes, Comments, and Questions
Lewis A. Grossman & Robert G. Vaughn, A Documentary Companion to A Civil Action
with Notes, Comments, and Questions (4th ed. 2008). Low cost
Teacher’s Manual for The Power of Procedure
Nan D. Hunter, Teacher’s Manual for The Power of Procedure: The Litigation of
Jones v. Clinton vii-viii (2002). Used copies may be available at low cost
Brandt Goldstein et al., A Documentary Companion to Storming the Court (2009).
Not low cost
Putting Legal Doctrine Into Practical Context: A Case File for Civil Advocacy Courses, Sachs v. Jefferson Institute of Technology
$40
Civil Procedure: Doctrine, Practice, and Context, Sixth Edition (Casebook)
Not low cost. Has 2 case files and 42 practice questions.

Procertas Technology Trainer
The library purchases Procertas for use in Law School Classes. Contact Sarah Starnes sstarnes@uakron.edu if you would like to use Procertas for your class.
Teaches:
- Microsoft word for contract drafting
-Word for briefs
-Word for memos
- Excel for law practice use
- PDF for legal
-Powerpoint for legal use
Core Grammar for Lawyers
Core Grammar for LawyersSM (CGL) is an online, self-directed learning tool designed to help law students and practicing attorneys acquire the grammar and punctuation skills that are prerequisites to successful legal writing. Small fee to use.
Lexis Interactive Citation Work Station
Lexis Learn
Research tutorials with embedded questions
On-Demand Learning
Interactive video research tutorials

Currently there does not seem to be a huge number of interactive or simulations for law, but check the following:

Teaching Commons - Law
Open educational resources including textbooks, course materials and multimedia
Law Carta Catalog
Includes mostly open source and low cost casebooks.
1,000 +FREE Online Textbook Library & Learning Resources for All Subjects
Look at the subject Legal Studies
OER Commons
Search by keyword, and filter by subject area (law), type of material (full course, textbook, lecture, etc.)
OASIS
Search for open content including textbooks, books, videos, podcasts, simulations and more. Does not have a subject category for law.
Searches Open Textbook Library, OpenStax, Libretext and more