Faculty Services

TWEN

Please consult the Administrator's Guide to TWEN (link below) for information on how to use TWEN.

TWEN is made available as part of the law school’s Westlaw system. In order to use TWEN you must first have an active Westlaw account.

For more information please consult the Administrator's Guide to TWEN, or for assistance with creating a web page for your course please contact Kristina Martinez or Melissa Kreiling.

Brightspace

The University learning management system is Brightspace. Faculty can learn more about Brightspace on the Center for Teaching Excellence's page (link below).

For specific features of Brightspace, see the "Curated Resources" slide deck from the Center for Teaching Excellence's site (link below). Contact cua-brightspace@cua.edu with questions regarding the platform, or techsupport@cua.edu to submit a ticket to tech support.

Please contact csl-circ@cua.edu to place books on reserve for your students. If a book is not owned by the Law Library, we will purchase it.

Textbooks

Please note that we purchase textbooks only for required and staple courses.  If you would like to place a textbook on reserve for a course which is not required or staple, please consider donating a copy of the text to the library. Review copies marked "Not for Resale" may be donated to the library.

Digital Textbooks

Legal publishers do not permit libraries to purchase individual digital textbooks.

Digital

All exams submitted to the library via CSL Faculty Services are made available through the library's electronic reserves database. The exams are password-protected; students must enter their CUA user name and password to gain access.

Print Exams

Print copies of all exams submitted to the library via CSL Faculty Services are bound in volumes by semester and year. The bound exams are located in closed compact shelving on Floor 4. Only library staff have access to the bound exam volumes.

Graded Exams

The Law Library and the Office of Academic Affairs have implemented a virtual exam review facility which allows students to temporarily (up to 48hrs) review their own exam submission, the exam questions, and any other supplementary or explanatory material made available by the relevant faculty member (e.g., a model answer). While students are able to view the materials, the ability to download, print and share has been disabled in the Google Drive used for this system. Students may view comments on their graded exams, provided that those comments have been made digitally. See the link below for more information.

Westlaw Edge and Lexis+ provide faculty webinars to learn more about their artificial intelligence (AI) products. Please see the links below to learn more about the differences between their generative and extractive AI products.

Westlaw

• Ask Practical Law AI - 30-minute webinars on their Practical Law AI product
• General Overview of Westlaw AI Products - WestSearch Plus, Litigation Analytics and Quick Check (click through for more information on each product)
• AI-Assisted Research - Scroll down on this page for videos and user guides
• Countdown to CoCounsel - Page for preparation of Westlaw's new AI tool with generative AI Lessons and Webinars. (Need Westlaw login.)

Lexis+

• Lexis+ AI Practice Page - Links to AI resources, guides and videos (Need to login to Lexis+ account)
• AI Terms for Legal Professionals: Understanding What Powers Legal Tech - Article covering basic terms, Extractive vs. Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLM) and Legal Tech Examples
• Choose the Right Tool - a concise overview of considerations when choosing between Lexis+ AI and public generative AI tools.
• Lexis+ AI  Frequently Asked Questions - Resource guide on the capabilities of Lexis+ AI

Online Resources

• AI and Law Teaching - Guide from the University of Illinois Law Library on extractive and generative AI
• Generative AI & Legal Research - Guide from Widener University
• Law School Policies About Using Generative AI for Papers and Exams - Guide from the University of Arizona Law Library
• Generative AI Resources - for Berkeley Law Faculty & Staff
• AI & the Law… & what it means for legal education & lawyers - Article in Georgetown Law magazine
• American Bar Association - Law and Artificial Intelligence Resources
• American Bar Association Journal - Article on law school policies 

The Law Library maintains a pedagogy collection in the Faculty Lounge. Titles are shelved in call number order. Please be courteous of your colleagues and take care not to keep titles in your offices for too long.