Welcome back to Ahead of the Curve. I’m Karen Sloan, legal education editor at Law.com, and I’ll be your host for this weekly look at innovation and notable developments in legal education.

This week, I’m getting a tutorial on open casebooks from John Mayer, the executive director of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction. Are they the wave of the future? Next up is a look at the time that legendary Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau took down a former Harvard Law School dean.