Sam Sutton, Arizona State University College of Law THE COMPUTER-BASED TEACHING OF LAW: AN EDUCATIONALLY TESTED MODEL A computer-based methodology for the development of high-content survey courses in law and for their effective delivery to large sections of students characterized by diverse learning styles. A course entitled “Commercial Torts” has been offered at the ASU College of Law each of the past 23 years to sections ranging in size from 50 to 120 students. This course integrates the law of intellectual property and business torts into a study of the coalescing relationship between competition and intangible property. Commercial Torts has been the focus of an educational research project conducted over the past 12 years and involving over 800 students. This project has defined a teaching methodology that has produced an 8% enhancement (p < 0.01) in the median performance of students on a standardized examination (30 pages, 4 hours, 625 points) designed to test their functional knowledge and ability to apply legal principles from 11 topical areas to actual client-based legal problems. Qualitative research shows greatly improved student satisfaction, with 84% indicating a preference over the traditional lecture/text format. Commercial Torts consists of 27 lectures; each lecture is approximately 85 minutes long. The lectures are continuously accessible from multiple computers located in the law library. Students “attended” two lectures each week, followed by a live, clinical/review session during which 20 to 40 client hypotheticals (with rapid-fire questions) are presented for spontaneous analysis by randomly selected students. While these live sessions concentrate primarily on the subject matter of the two preceding lectures, they are also designed to provide a cumulative review and integration of all prior content. This fifty minute presentation will include an active demonstration of the technical process by which a professor can readily author, immediately update and continuously supplement lectures and materials for on-line delivery to a large number of students who can individually control the learning process in terms of when and over what period of time they choose to absorb the material presented. In addition, there will be an active demonstration of a student’s view of the course presentation and materials, including the ability to independently start, stop or repeat any portion of any lecture while simultaneously producing student notes which may themselves incorporate any of the supplemental images, flow charts, diagrams, quotations or key concepts presented in synchronization with the lectures. This will be the first public report on this teaching methodology and the underlying research, evaluation and test data supporting its efficacy. With sufficient advance notice, a demonstration CD can be made available to all attendees. Alternatively, a single page Student Guide will be distributed. This Student Guide is available on line at www.lawtech.law.asu.edu (click on “New User”).