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For law professors

Build your course de novo.

De novo — anew, from first principles. Turn one good idea into a full semester: syllabus, weekly materials, slides, and exam. Every case verified to the source. Every week kept current with the law.

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PROPERTY · WEEK 4

Estates & future interests

Who owns time? — and what happens when an owner tries to control the future

every cite verified

Building a new course from scratch is 100 to 300 hours of work. De Novo Edu makes it a conversation.

How it works

Four moves, backward-designed

1

Talk through the heart of it

A coaching conversation shapes your thesis and learning outcomes — it drafts, you react.

2

Review & approve the plan

Architecture, syllabus, course map — generated, yours to revise, nothing locked.

3

Build each week

A verified research memo becomes a cheat sheet and a classroom-ready slide deck.

4

Teach, reflect, stay current

A 60-second retrospective shapes next week; the law moves, we tell you.

A colleague, not a chatbot

It pushes back when you're off

Hand it a list of topics and it won't just nod. It coaches you toward a real thesis — the way a thoughtful colleague would.

That's a coverage list, not a thesis

A thesis names the tension the whole semester argues about. For Property, one candidate: "the law constantly renegotiates when the right to exclude must yield." Adopt it, sharpen it, or tell me yours.

Verified to the source

Never cite a case that doesn't say what you think

Every authority is checked against the primary record. Nothing reaches your slides that isn't in a verified memo.

verified Javins v. First Nat'l Realty — implied warranty of habitability
verified Pierson v. Post — first possession & capture
to confirm flagged for your review — never silently used

Flux watch

Your course never quietly goes stale

The law moves under your materials. De Novo Edu watches the doctrines you teach and tells you when a week needs a second look.

Week 6 may be out of date

A new circuit decision (May 2026) extends Tyler v. Hennepin County. Your takings week predates it — re-verify?

Walk into class ready

Every artifact, branded to your school

A prep memo, a podium cheat sheet, a 16:9 slide deck, and an exam with a rubric — carrying your name and your school's mark.

Memo

Cheat sheet

Slides

Exam

Why I built this

"I'm an adjunct professor. When I built my own course, I looked for something like this — and there was nothing. So I built it."

I also spend my career in AI and security, so I had no patience for a tool that just generates plausible-sounding law. De Novo Edu is built to be rigorous — verified to the source, honest about what it doesn't know, and current with how the law actually moves.

— the founder