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WP:Hornbook -- a new WP:Law task force for the J.D. curriculum
I'm asking Wikipedians who are interested in United States legal articles to take a look at WP:Hornbook, the new "JD curriculum task force".

Our mission is to assimilate into Wikipedia all the insights of an American law school education, by reducing hornbooks to footnotes.
 * Each casebook will have a subpage.
 * Over the course of a semester, each subpage will shift its focus to track the unfolding curriculum(s) for classes using that casebook around the country.
 * The subpage will also feature an extensive, hyperlinked "index" or "outline" to that casebook, pointing to pages, headers, or anchors in Wikipedia (example).
 * Individual law schools can freely adapt our casebook outlines to the idiosyncratic curriculum devised by each individual professor.


 * I'm encouraging law students around the country to create local chapters of the club I'm starting at my own law school, "Student WP:Hornbook Editors". Using WP:Hornbook as our headquarters, we're hoping to create a study group so inclusive that nobody will dare not join.

What you can do now:
 * 1. Add WP:Hornbook to your watchlist, User Hornbook to your userpage, and ~ to Hornbook/participants.
 * 2. If you're a law student,
 * Email http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Hornbook to your classmates, and tell them to do the same.
 * Contact me directly via talk page or email about coordinating a chapter of "Student WP:Hornbook Editors" at your own school.
 * (You don't have to start the club, or even be involved in it; just help direct me to someone who might.)
 * 3. Introduce yourself to me. Law editors on Wikipedia are a scarce commodity.  Do knock on my talk page if there's an article you'd like help on.

Regards, Andrew Gradman talk/WP:Hornbook 19:11, 2 August 2009 (UTC)