List of Free/Open Casebooks

Last update: 8/27/2025

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
  CONTRACTS Open Source Contracts, A Free Casebook Edited by:
Matthew Bodie
Pamela Bookman
Tal Kastner
Ethan J. Leib
Jake Linford
Guy A. Rub
2025
  CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS

Emory Open-Access Constitutional Criminal Procedure: Investigations Casebook

Tonja Jacobi
Emory University School of Law
Last revised: 15 Apr 2025
  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 (4th Edition)

Patent Law: Cases, Problems, and Materials (3rd Edition)

Jonathan S. Masur, University of Chicago - Law School

Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Stanford Law School

4th Edition 2025
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
  LABOR LAW Occupational Safety and Health
H20
Emily A. Spieler
Northeastern University - School of Law
First published Apr 2023 and updated Aug 2025
  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
  TAX Federal Tax Procedure (2025 Student Ed.) John A. Townsend, University of Houston Law Center Date Written: August 9, 2025
  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
         
  OPEN PLATFORMS 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.    
  LISTS OF OPEN/LOW-COST CASEBOOKS Inexpensive and Open-Access Casebooks James Grimmelmann
Cornell Law School
Updated August, 2025
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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