Law School Affordable Course Materials

Download Professors Rebecca Tushnet and Eric Goldman's casebook for $12.00.

Boston College Law School faculty contribute to an e-book available on SSRN on constitutions of the world: Global Review of Constitutional Law. The publication contains reports on constitutional issues and developments from 44 jurisdictions world-wide; reports are authored by local experts and academics. The 2018 edition, posted in OCtober 2019, is the latest edition prepared by the Clough Center at Boston College in partnership with I-CONnect, 

You can locate federal case law on open government sites as well as on Google Scholar:

1. U.S. Supreme Court - decisions from U.S. Supreme Court from v. 1, 1732 to date, available from Google Scholar.

2. U.S. Courts of Appeal - decisions from circuit courts from v. 1, F. 1932 to date. Note: last few months may not be available on Google Scholar but can be obtained on the individual circuit's website.

3. U.S. District Courts - decisions from U.S. District Courts beginning with v. 1, F.Supp., 1932 to date.  Last several months may not be available on Google Scholar but can be obtained on the individual court's website.

4. Caselaw Access Project offers a complete back file of federal case law. 

1. CALI (Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction) has posted the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Federal Rules of Evidence to its site.  The rules are part of the the eLangdell Bookstore at https://www.cali.org/the-elangdell-bookstore. These rules publications are free to download as are all books in the CALI bookstore and are available in PDF, EPUB, and MOBI formats to suit your favorite e-readers. BC Law students may register for free access to CALI. Student access codes are available at the Law Library's Information Desk.

2. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts posts current rules of practice and procedure in pdf format. The same site offers access to superseded rules pamphlets. 

U.S. Code - available free in authenticated format on Government Publishing Office GovInfo website; text is in pdf format.  U.S.C. is also available on website of the  Office of Law Revision Counsel with recent updates.

Statutes at Large - available from 104th Congress (1995) forward on Government Publishing Office GovInfo website; text is authenticated and in pdf format. Earlier coverage is available using the Law Library's HeinOnline subscription (select HeinOnline and log in using your BC credentials); statutes are in pdf format.

Duke University publishes a series of coursebooks for law students. The first title in the series is Intellectual Property: Law and the Information Society. The text can be downloaded for free under a Creative Commons license. Users can acquire individual chapters in different formats, including a print copy of the text for a modest fee. Duke characterizes its paperback format as $130 less than other leading IP casebooks.

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Founded by Professor Peter S. Menell from UC Berkeley School of Law, Clause 8 takes its name from the so-called Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Professor Menell co-authors his affordable course materials with other professors and practitioners; his Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age (IPNTA) casebook was published through a major publisher previously.  Clause 8 offers a major intellectual property casebook, a statutes supplement, and a guide on patent case management directed towards federal judges and clerks. Pricing is less than $30 per volume; the first 2 chapters of the casebook are posted to SSRN for preview purposes. 

Professor Goldman offers his 2018 casebook through Gumroad Press.

Professional Responsibility: An Open-Source Casebook