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Welcome to the JD curriculum task force of WikiProject Law


CASEBOOK subpages

This list seeks to group casebooks into the recognizable categories of course title & year. Please propose potentially confusing changes at the talk page.

I think we might eventually settle for broader categories, e.g. "corporate classes," "1L classes," "constitutional classes", "intellectual property," "international law," "litigation," etc.

Column-generating template families

The templates listed here are not interchangeable. For example, using {{col-float}} with {{col-end}} instead of {{col-float-end}} would leave a <div>...</div> open, potentially harming any subsequent formatting.

Column templates
Type Family
Handles wiki
table code?
Responsive/
mobile suited
Start template Column divider End template
Float "col-float" Yes Yes {{col-float}} {{col-float-break}} {{col-float-end}}
"columns-start" Yes Yes {{columns-start}} {{column}} {{columns-end}}
Columns "div col" Yes Yes {{div col}} {{div col end}}
"columns-list" No Yes {{columns-list}} (wraps div col)
Flexbox "flex columns" No Yes {{flex columns}}
Table "col" Yes No {{col-begin}},
{{col-begin-fixed}} or
{{col-begin-small}}
{{col-break}} or
{{col-2}} .. {{col-5}}
{{col-end}}

Can template handle the basic wiki markup {| | || |- |} used to create tables? If not, special templates that produce these elements (such as {{(!}}, {{!}}, {{!!}}, {{!-}}, {{!)}})—or HTML tags (<table>...</table>, <tr>...</tr>, etc.)—need to be used instead.

Resources

Professional briefs.
  • Paraphrase from "High Court Case Summaries," "Casenote Legal Briefs", "Lexis Headnotes," etc.
Student outlines and casebriefs.
Analysis.
  • "Shepardize" individual cases on Lexis Nexis, for heavily-footnoted treatises and law review articles. Paraphrase, don't infringe.

Young caselaw articles should, at bare minimum, consist of case briefs. WP:SCOTUS employs the following article outline, and we should not diverge from it without their consensus. (In the long run, WP:LAW should have a "manual of style task force"/"Wikibluebook task force", whose members determine the standards for article layout, citation usage, template usage, etc. for all law-related content.)

Todo

Participants

  1. Andrew Gradman talk/WP:Hornbook 18:30, 28 July 2009 (UTC) (founder)[reply]
  2. Elliott Ash talk/WP:Hornbook 23:55, 01 August 2009 (UTC) (co-founder)[reply]
  3. Bearian (talk) 12:24, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Pharos (talk) 03:46, 31 July 2009 (UTC) Not a law student, but I'd be glad to help from Wikimedia New York City and reaching out to the Students for Free Culture chapter at Columbia.[reply]
  5. Lawyer2b (talk) 05:03, 31 July 2009 (UTC) Will do what I can with limited time available. Love the project![reply]
  6. DAFMM (talk), very interesting. 31st July 2009.
  7. Cdogsimmons (talk) 14:22, 31 July 2009 (UTC) I look forward to participating.[reply]
  8. SWATJester Son of the Defender 23:13, 31 July 2009 (UTC) 3L at American University, focus on IP law.[reply]
  9. Ramsquire (throw me a line) 23:21, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Riotrocket8676 You gotta problem with that? 17:21, 1 August 2009 (UTC) Am a High School student, but want to be a lawyer![reply]
  11. Ute in DC (talk) 06:26, 2 August 2009 (UTC) Focus on criminal law.[reply]
  12. Eastlaw talk ⁄ contribs 06:58, 2 August 2009 (UTC) I will try to accomplish something here. I am not sure how much time I will have in the near-term future though.[reply]
  13. DizFreak talk Contributions 21:20, 2 August 2009 (UTC) Will focus on copy editing and vandalism as time allows.[reply]
  14. FireEscape (talk) 01:01, 3 August 2009 (UTC) Law student and new Wikipedian -- recruited by Andrew.[reply]

Other stuff

Categories

Templates

For main project templates, see the main project page for WikiProject Law.

Infobox template

Stub templates

Featured/Good content

Since few of our articles are of broad public interest, I currently feel (July 28 2009) that we should be aiming to bring articles up to "Good Article" status. Once we establish a consensus on the discussion page, we'll revise this text to be more objective.