Open Educational Resources

This casebook is very low cost, published by Semaphore Press. The press provides digital downloads of law school casebooks through its website, asking students to pay a suggested price for the material that is approximately $1 for each one-hour class session in which the materials are used. For a full casebook, our suggested price is $30: Cases and Problems in Civil Rights Litigation provides an innovative approach to this complex, difficult, and important area of law. The book first situates federal civil rights litigation in a broader context by exploring sovereign immunity and state tort remedies for official misconduct. Next, the book presents the three primary forms of constitutional civil rights litigation: Ex parte Young, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and Bivens. After giving students a basic understanding of these causes of action, the book devotes chapters to the most common substantive claims, proper defendants, immunity defenses, and remedies. The last chapters of the book address two special topics: the intersection of civil rights claims with the criminal justice system (including an overview of habeas corpus law), and an introduction to the possibilities for international human rights litigation in U.S. courts...

Available through CALI eLangdell with Word and PDF versions are available completely for free, as well as a low cost print copy: This Casebook (Second Edition, December 2019) is intended to be used in an upper-division course covering the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Its 14 chapters are substantially the same length, with the exception of Chapter One, the introduction, and Chapters Eleven and Twelve which in combination are the usual length. It is intended for 13 or 14 week semester that meets once or twice per week. Each Chapter contains a “Chapter Outline” at the beginning for ease of reference.

Available through CALI eLangdell with Word and PDF versions are available completely for free, as well as a low cost print copy: This Casebook is intended to be used in a course which concentrates on Constitutional Rights and centers the Fourteenth Amendment. It can be used in a first year Law School course with a title such as “Liberty, Equality, and Due Process,” as it is at CUNY School of Law, an upper division Constitutional Rights course, or an advanced undergraduate course focusing on constitutional rights, especially equality and due process.

This digital casebook includes materials for Advanced Constitutional Law. It is hosted in Harvard Law School Library's H2O platform. H2O lets faculty collect materials, hide and annotate text, and distribute casebooks to students quickly and reliably. All materials in H2O are licensed CC BY-NC-SA and free to copy, reuse and remix.

This open source — as in freely licensed (CC-BY-SA) — casebook is a companion to my book, Fidelity & Constraint (Oxford 2019). It covers the course material of federalism, separation of powers, and the Civil War Amendments, organized into a framework for understanding how the Supreme Court has developed these doctrines. That framework is suggestive for domains beyond the scope of this casebook. It is hosted on Harvard's H20 platform.

Hosted by Harvard's H20 platform, this is a draft of an ebook for "Shameful or Ignored Supreme Court Cases" seminar. Notes from the author: "In form, it is somewhat similar to traditional American casebooks, taking a legal opinion, providing reading notes for it,and condensing it either by elision of peripheral passages or by replacement of material that can be condensed without too much harm. (I also replace typographic errors mostly caused by the use of an OCR system on older texts). It differs from a traditional book in two ways, however. First, I am able to provide direct annotations for various passages, in which you are able to see my comments or see links to related materials. The annotations tend to be informal and sometimes, I confess, a little snarky. Second, I have made a different tradeoff than is required by the constraints of paper: the opinions in this ebook tend to have fewer deletions than is typical. This lighter hand helps students perform the task they will perform frequently in the real world: dealing with an unedited case. It also provides a more complete flavor of the various justices' opinions than is typical (or possible) in paper-based casebooks. I do edit the cases, however, so that they can actually be assigned for a single class..."

Available through your Westlaw account with access provided by your law school library: Nowak and Rotunda's Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure provides scholars, practitioners, judges, and officials with an up-to-date analysis and synthesis of federal constitutional law. Focus is primarily on the Supreme Court and incorporates the political, historical, and economic background of court decisions. The text analyzes constitutional questions in terms of precedent, political science theory, economics, and American history, making the leading cases understandable concerning both their overall significance and the precise legal rules they establish.