LibGuides: Free and Low Cost Law School Casebooks and Teaching Resources: Open Source Law Casebooks

Open Casebook Collections

Best bets for law casebooks:

CALI Ebooks
Includes the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Federal Rules of Evidence
Educators can adopt and edit eLangdell's Creative Commons licensed ebooks for free
H20
"H2O helps law faculty create high quality, open-licensed digital textbooks for free"
Open Textbook Library
Free, openly licensed textbooks that have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of universities
Can use, adapt, and distribute for free
Download for free, Print at low cost
Teaching Commons - Law
Open educational resources including textbooks, course materials and multimedia
Live Carta Catalog
Includes mostly open source and low cost casebooks. Use the filters on the left to limit to Subject = law.
1,000 +FREE Online Textbook Library & Learning Resources for All Subjects
Look at the subject Legal Studies

Others:

OER Commons
Search by keyword, and filter by subject area (law), type of material (full course, textbook, lecture, etc.)
OASIS
Search for open content including textbooks, books, videos, podcasts, simulations and more. Does not have a subject category for law.
Searches Open Textbook Library, OpenStax, Libretext and more
Directory of Open Access Books
Not textbooks, but books on legal subjects especially foreign, international and comparative law.

Chartacourse
Law professors share teaching resources. Students subscribe to the materials for about $60.
Semaphore Press
Low cost digital downloads of casebooks published by Semaphore.

Advertising and Marketing Law: Cases and Materials
Download this textbook for only $11.50 by Rebecca Tushnet and Eric Goldman (2014)
Antitrust Principles, Cases, and Materials
by Danieal Francis & Christopher Jon Sprigman 2d ed., 2024
Appealingly Brief - The Little Big of Free Appellate Tips
2015 by Daniel J. Klau
Federal Tax Procedure (2020)
By John Townsend. via SSRN
Immigration Law: An Open Casebook
by Kit Johnson, 2023
Internet Law Cases and Materials
Download this textbook starting at $8.00, Eric Goldman (2016)
Open Source Property
free and public textbook on property. By Stephen Clowney, James Grimmelmann, Michael Grynberg, Jeremy Sheff, and Rebecca Tushnet. (2015-16)
Professional Responsibility: An Open Source Casebook
Download this textbook for free via SSRN, Brian L. Frye and Elizabeth Schiller (2019).
Global Corruption: Law, Theory & Practice
By Gerry Ferguson (3rd ed. 2019)
Tort Law: Cases & Critique
By Thomas Kadri. Free to download.
Homeland Security Safeguarding the U.S. from Domestic Catastrophic Destruction
2016. Edited by:
Richard White, Ph.D., Tina Bynum, DM, and Stan Supinski, Ph.D
U.S. Administrative Law
by Jud Mathews 2020

2016 Global Review of Constitutional Law
Download this textbook for free, Richard Albert, David Landau, Pietro Faraguna, and Simon Drugda. via SSRN
First Things First: A Modern Coursebook on Free Speech Fundamentals
Ronald K.L. Collins, Will Creeley, and David L. Hudson, Jr., 2019

Criminal Law, Second Edition
Free Casebook on SSRN. By Corey Rayburn Yung (2020)
Sex Crimes
By Corey Rayburn Yung (2nd ed. 2021). Download for free via SSRN.
Corporate Crime, an Introduction to the Law and its Enforcement
By Samuel W. Buell (2021). Purchase the bound book or download the PDF.

Copyright Law: An Open Source Casebook
By Gary Myers 2019
Copyright Law: Cases and Materials
Jeanne C. Fromer and Christopher Jon Sprigman, 2019.
Copyright for the Rest of Us
By Roger C. Park, Douglas D. McFarland (2011)
Digital Copyright
by Jessica Litman. 2001 with updated footnotes
Intellectual Property: Law & the Information Society
Download this textbook for free, James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins (2018 with 2021 supplement)
Intellectual Property Transactions and Licensing: Theory and Practice
Jorge L. Contreras, 2022
Open Source Casebook
2019 - contract rights and remedies under open source licenses, patent licensing, trademarks in open source, authorship in open source
Patent Law: Cases, Problems, and Materials
Jonathan S. Masur & Lisa Larrimore Ouellette. (3rd ed. 2023)
Patent Law: An Open-Access Casebook
Download this textbook for free, Sarah Burstein, Sara R. Wasserman Rajec, and Andres Sawicki. via SSRN.
Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Entire Book)
Janis, et al., last revised 2023
Trademark Law: An Open-Source Textbook
By Barton Beebe (2020)
Trademark Law
by Michael Grynberg, 2023