Criminal law & procedure teaching materials database -- it's live (and needs your help)

Some exciting news from Russell Gold, who's chairing AALS's Crim Pro Section:

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Hi Everyone,

I hope that summer is treating you well.  I'm excited to report that the digital teaching resources repository for criminal law and procedure courses is now live!  You can find it from the page of either the Criminal Procedure or Criminal Law sections or the link is here.  That said, you'll see that the content of the repository is still sparse.  Thanks very much to those of you who already contributed.  For those who haven't, I'll encourage you to contribute now.  I'd especially love to see more content for externships, clinics, and substantive criminal law courses other than 1L Criminal Law.

I encourage you to share:

• Syllabi
• Teaching notes
• Classroom slides
• Sample assignments, exams, or practice questions
• Classroom exercises
• Supplemental materials (podcasts, videos, articles, URLs for websites)

If you are willing to contribute, here's what you should do.  In the next two weeks:

1. Please reply individually to Russell ([email protected]) explaining which coursebook (if any) you choose for each of your criminal justice-related courses and why you choose that book.  We have a document for each course in the repository that explains why the amazing teachers in this group use the book they do.  We think this document will help other teachers, especially new teachers, decide which book and approach best suits their needs before diving more deeply into the repository.
2. Please post materials using this Dropbox file request: www.dropbox.com/request/u345Veuxh6ZdNEwymEZF.  Feel free to include any notes or context you believe would be helpful to those reviewing your materials.  Please include your name when you're submitting using the File Request.  Please upload your files in one or more folders rather than individually.  Please separate your materials for each criminal justice-related course that you teach.  (Uploading a big batch of materials with sub-folders works well and so will separate uploads with a folder of materials for each of your courses.)  Dropbox is just the temporary holding location, and only Executive Committee members will be able to see those submissions before they go live to the AALS repository.

If you have materials that you'd like to contribute but have any technical difficulties in so doing, please reach out to Russell individually ([email protected]).

Please remember that to make these materials accessible only to other faculty members access to this repository is limited to members of the Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure sections.  If you are mentoring someone who wants access to the materials, please encourage them to join one or both sections.

Warmest regards and many thanks,
Russell Gold, Justin Murray, Melissa Redmon, Ben Levin, Evelyn Malavé, Maybell Romero, and Valena Beety

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Russell M. Gold
Bainbridge-Mims Professor of Law
University of Alabama School of Law
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