List of Free/Open Casebooks

Last update: 12/29/2024

This is a list of non-CALI, free or open casebooks - generally for US law school courses.  A future goal is to gather these into a database for better updates and include additional information like the type of license (Creative Commons, public domain, etc.), links to author contact information, etc.  CALI'S free/open casebooks can be found here.   This list is periodically updated by John Mayer (jmayer@cali.org), so if you have written an open casebook or see something is missing drop him a note at jmayer@cali.org







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# Subject Title Authors/Affiliations Date Published
1 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW Administrative Law: A Public Casebook for the American Public Law System Daniel E. Walters, Texas A&M University School of Law Date Written: August 9, 2023
  ADMINISTRATIVE LAW Introduction to Administrative Process: Cases & Materials Thomas G. Field, University of New Hampshire School of Law 2010
  ADMINISTRATIVE LAW U.S. ADMINISTRATIVE LAW: A CASEBOOK Fourth Edition Jud Mathews, Penn State Law 2024
  CIVIL RIGHTS CASES AND PROBLEMS IN CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION: STATE, FEDERAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES 

Semaphore Press
John T. Parry, Lewis & Clark Law School Fourth Edition – Fully revised and released July 2023
  INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW: CASES & MATERIALS 

Ver. 8.0, 2023

Semaphore Press
Lydia Pallas LoreN,Lewis & Clark Law School



Joseph Scott Miller, University of Georgia Law School

 
Ver. 8.0 - released October 2023. 
  INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Patent Law: An Open-Access Casebook

Sarah Burstein, Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School



Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec, Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School


Andres Sawicki, Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law

Last revised: 3 Jul 2022
  INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Patent Law: Cases, Problems, and Materials (3rd Edition)

Jonathan S. Masur, University of Chicago - Law School


Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Stanford Law School

3rd Edition 2023

 
  INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook

Mark D. Janis, Indiana University Maurer School of Law


Ted M. Sichelman, University of San Diego School of Law


John R. Allison, University of Texas - McCombs School of Business


Thomas F. Cotter, University of Minnesota Law School


Christopher Anthony Cotropia, University of Richmond - School of Law


Dmitry Karshtedt, George Washington University - Law School


Jeffrey A. Lefstin, UC Law, San Francisco


Jason Rantanen, University of Iowa - College of Law


David O. Taylor, Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law


S. Sean Tu, West Virginia University College of Law

Date Written: August 25, 2023

  INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Intellectual Property: Law & the Information Society - Cases & Materials; An Open Casebook

James Boyle, Duke Law School


Jennifer Jenkins, Duke Law School

6th Edition 2024
  INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Fundamentals of Intellectual Property: Cases & Materials Thomas G. Field, University of New Hampshire School of Law Date Written: June 24, 2012
  INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Innovation and Competition Policy

Ch. 1: Competition Policy and the Scope of Intellectual Property

Protection


Ch. 2 Complementary Products and Processes: The Law of Tying

Ch. 3 Harm to Competition or Innovation; Remedies

Ch. 4 Competition Policy and the Patent System

Ch. 5 Competition and Innovation in Copyright and the DMCA

Ch. 6 Restraints on Innovation

Ch. 7 Intellectual Property Misuse

Ch. 8 Innovation, Technology, and Anticompetitive Exclusion

Ch. 9 The Innovation Commons

Ch. 10; Post-Sale and Related Distribution Restraints Involving IP

Rights


Statutory Supplement and Other Materials

 
Herbert Hovenkamp, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School 2013
  INTERNET LAW INTERNET LAW: CASES AND PROBLEMS Semaphore Press James Grimmelmann, Cornell Law School Fourteenth Edition -Fully revised and released June 2024
  INTERSTATE COMPACT LAW INTERSTATE COMPACT LAW: CASES & MATERIALS 

Semaphore Press
Jeffrey Litwak, Lewis & Clark Law School

 
Fourth Edition -Fully revised and released July 2020
  LABOR LAW Work Law Open Cases & Materials  Gali Racabi, Cornell University ILR School; Cornell Law School Date Written: June 26, 2024
  PRIVACY LAW

Kugler's Privacy Law: Cases and Materials

Matthew B. Kugler, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law 2024
  PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY Professional Responsibility: An Open-Source Casebook Brian L. Frye, University of Kentucky - College of Law



Elizabeth Schiller, University of Richmond School of Law
Date Written: April 8, 2019
  PROPERTY AN INTRODUCTION TO PROPERTY LAW IN THE U.S. (Ver. 2.3, 2022) 

Semaphore Press
Steve Semeraro, Thomas Jefferson School of Law Version 2.3 ~ Released July 2022
  RELIGION AND THE LAW Religion in the Law: An Open Access Casebook

1st Edition
L. Joe Dunman, University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law Date Written: August 11, 2021
  TRADEMARK Trademark Law: An Open-Access Casebook, Barton Beebe, NYU School of Law posted July 14, 2024
  TRADEMARK Trademark Law Michael Grynberg, DePaul University - College of Law Date Written: July 31, 2024
  US LAW An Introduction to the Law of the United States Mark Shope, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University; Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law Date Written: September 4, 2021
         
  VARIOUS H2O is a free platform for making, sharing, and remixing open-licensed casebooks and other course materials. It is developed and maintained by the Library Innovation Lab at the Harvard Law School Library. With H2O, educators can drastically reduce textbook costs for their students, gain control over their course materials, and collaborate toward new approaches to law school curriculum.    
         
  SCHOLARSHIP

The Open Casebook Revolution

Supreme Court Law Review, vol. 3(3d), 2024

Samuel Beswick

Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia


Maddison Zapach

University of British Columbia (UBC), Faculty of Law, Students

Date Written: January 1, 2024
   

Can Law Students Disrupt the Market for High-Priced Textbooks?

Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts, Forthcoming


University of Washington School of Law Research Paper No. 2015-20

Jane K. Winn

University of Washington - School of Law
Date Written: June 12, 2015