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From a non-geek computer user I will do my best to explain, please no 
flames if I use inappropriate terminology to define "CALI".

The law school I attend (and many others) has computer programs which are 
used as study aids for various subjects.  CALI stands for computer 
assisted legal instruction or some such nonsense.  Basically the programs 
involve hypotheticals and questions.  You type in a brief answer and 
depending upon whether or not you answer "correctly" you get another 
chance or the opportunity to justify/explain your answere where there is 
no single correct response.  I have used them for Evidence and Civil 
Procedure.  They also have them for Con Law, Property and other areas.  
They can be very useful especially for lazy professors who give objective 
short answer or multiple choice type exams with questions that are thinly 
disguised CALI hypos.

They are fun, and help you learn rule type rote subjects but I found them 
less than inspiring in terms of analytical evaluation of policies behind 
various rules.  I can still remember the Evidence CALI, a long series of 
hypos based on the Lizzie Borden case.  Like should testimony by the town 
druggist that Lizzie was in buying arsenic a week before the murders be 
admissible...  To give you another example there was a slip and fall hypo 
set in a grocery store and wife told the paramedic that her husband 
slipped on spilled Catsup.  Is it hearsay?  What exception, if any would 
apply?  That is the general idea of the questions.  If you respond that 
it would not come in the program tries to help you out, it asks you to 
consider X...  and then asks you if you want to change your answer.  Of 
course it does this with correct responses too, just to try and trick you.

From my notebook of insane law school experiences...

Stephanie