Open Educational Resources

This 6 chapter casebook is completely free to use and available online. it is hosted by H2O. H2O offers a platform for making and sharing open-licensed casebooks and other course materials online. It was created originally by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. It's developed and maintained today by the Library Innovation Lab at the Harvard Law School Library.

This book is posted to SSRN in the form of a 521 page PDF and contains the materials for a first-year course in criminal law focused on the substantive law of the United States. This book is being released under a Creative Commons license (terms described in the book). Please feel free to use any portion of this book in a classroom environment under those terms. If you are an instructor and wish to receive a Word formatted version of the book and/or the accompanying teacher's manual, please contact the author directly from your university-affiliated email account.

This 9 chapter casebook is completely free to use and available online. it is hosted by H2O. H2O offers a platform for making and sharing open-licensed casebooks and other course materials online. It was created originally by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. It's developed and maintained today by the Library Innovation Lab at the Harvard Law School Library.

This 18 chapter casebook is completely free to use and available online. it is hosted by H2O. H2O offers a platform for making and sharing open-licensed casebooks and other course materials online. It was created originally by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. It's developed and maintained today by the Library Innovation Lab at the Harvard Law School Library: These materials are intended to provide students an opportunity to reflect on the course material by setting it in the context of ongoing challenges in criminal law. Designed as a companion to the Ball/Oberman Criminal Law Casebook, they are keyed to the weekly materials in a first-year criminal law class. Discussion materials typically feature a podcast, a video clip, or an article, essay or short news item.

This resource is available through Westlaw, with an account required, but access is provided by the law library to current law students: Use this set as a first-search reference for handling criminal cases. Expert resource provides essential coverage of the law by thoroughly analyzing common-law development and criminal procedure. Text traces statutory and judicial changes, as well as modifications, in common law. Subjects include criminal and juvenile court, venue, arrest, extradition, preliminary hearings, search and seizure, and grand juries. Addresses indictment, bail, arraignment and pleas, pre-trial motions and objections, and discovery. Discusses self-incrimination, trial, opening statements, and closing arguments. Complete post-trial coverage, including charge to jury, jury separation and deliberation, verdict, motions, sentence, punishment, appeal, and post-conviction remedies.

In this practical guidebook former district attorney and director of the University of Georgia's School of Law Prosecutorial Justice Program Alan Cook shares his personal wisdom and advice gathered from his decades of experience into a single volume. The handbook includes introductions to each chapter topic, plus both quick and detailed reference sections on all aspects of criminal law and procedure. It also includes useful appendices with step-by-step practice guides for how to perform specific prosecutorial tasks (such as how to take a guilty plea). Law student testimonies from now seasoned attorneys at the start of the book indicate the potential for this set of resources to students interested in becoming prosecutors as well as those already practicing.

This 7 chapter casebook is completely free to use and available online. it is hosted by H2O. H2O offers a platform for making and sharing open-licensed casebooks and other course materials online. It was created originally by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. It's developed and maintained today by the Library Innovation Lab at the Harvard Law School Library.