PUTTING KNOWLEDGE INTO PRACTICE
Are you a university law professor applying some innovative teaching strategies in your classroom? If yes, please share with us your teaching methodology, tips, and activities so that we can post them on our website.
This submission form is for a professor’s submission of materials for posting and display on our website at educatingtomorrowslawyers.du.edu (the “ETL Site”) for Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers (“Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers” or “ETL” herein). ETL is an initiative of the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (“IAALS”) at the University of Denver. IAALS created, developed and operates the ETL Site.
The goal of the course module portion of the website is to feature curricular materials that exemplify innovative teaching in order to celebrate that teaching and facilitate others’ ability to innovate by using or building upon such materials. We welcome and appreciate submissions from faculty members who wish us to consider their materials for posting.
By submitting materials you grant IAALS the non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferrable right and license to copy, reproduce, display, and distribute publicly your materials on the ETL Site and in presentations and informational materials in print and other media about IAALS and Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers. You also grant IAALS the right to make minor refinements to the materials so as to conform them to the vernacular, format or context of the portion of the ETL Site or other informational materials where your materials are posted or presented.
Importantly, your grant to IAALS is non-exclusive; it does not preclude you from publishing your materials anywhere else, which IAALS encourages and would like to foster. Moreover, if for some reason you determine that you would like IAALS to remove your materials from the ETL Site, whether because of your publishing activities or for other reason, just let us know and we will promptly remove them.
The ETL Site is intended to facilitate the productive and lawful sharing of information. In the event a professor’s submission is accepted for posting, in accordance with ETL’s Terms of Use set forth on the ETL Site, visitors are only permitted to use the professor’s materials for a visitor’s own academic, educational, research, teaching, and writing work and activities; for emphasis, the professor’s materials may not be sold, transferred, licensed or otherwise used in any manner involving any income or profit to the visitor or anyone else – for further clarity and without limitation, this is intended to prohibit the visitor from using a professor’s materials in a textbook or other publication for sale or license to a third party. All rights to a professor’s materials are otherwise reserved by the professor.
Any use of a professor’s materials not within the scope of the paragraph above must be in accordance with the United States Copyright Act of 1976, as amended, and Section 107 thereunder (Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair Use) and prevailing publishing and academic standards as to proper credit and attribution for third party sources.
The posting of a professor’s materials does not render IAALS liable or responsible, and IAALS shall not be liable or responsible in any respect, for a visitor’s use or misuse of a professor’s materials or for any other event or circumstance as to the posting or usage of a professor’s materials.
The threshold requirements for consideration are:
The editorial process is as follows:
If the submission is approved, the professor is eligible to receive an initial partial stipend and will then be expected to work with ETL staff to build out the course module for inclusion on the website. Upon posting of the module, the professor is eligible to receive the balance of the stipend. The stipend for full course modules is $2,500 ($1,000 upon approval and $1,500 at posting) and for partial course modules is $1,000 ($400 upon approval and $600 at posting). The professor has the option of donating the stipend back to ETL, or to a particular school or program, or declining it altogether.
By submitting these materials to IAALS and in consideration of IAALS’ review and potential posting of these materials, the submitting professor affirms and represents that:
(i) all answers in this submission form are true and correct;
(ii) the submitting professor has the necessary rights and authority to make this submission and to permit her or his submitted materials to be displayed on the ETL Site and in other presentations and informational materials about IAALS and Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers; and
(iii) the submitted materials are original works of authorship of the submitting professor and will not infringe upon the copyright or other intellectual property or proprietary rights of a third party.
The submitting professor will indemnify and hold IAALS harmless from and against any claims and damages IAALS incurs by reason of the professor’s breach of her or his affirmations and representations herein.
Submitting professor acknowledges and agrees that her or his obligations as to this submission are personal to her or him and shall not be assigned or delegated by the professor. These affirmations and representations bind the professor and her or his heirs and successors.
IAALS reserves the right to delete materials from the ETL Site and may terminate and discontinue the ETL Site at any time within its discretion.
This submission form may be updated by IAALS in its discretion. At the end of this form below, we note when it has been last updated.
(Last updated August 15, 2011)