Website Listing Open-Access and Low-Cost Casebooks
Wow! This is quite a list, brought to you by James Grimmelmann (below) of Cornell Law School.
Contracts and commercial law offerings include the following:
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- Scott J. Burnham and Kristen Juras, Sales and Leases: A Problem-based Approach (2016) (Creative Commons-licensed multi-format download, or $5.92 paperback)
- Gregory Germain, Bankruptcy Law and Practice (2021) (Creative Commons-licensed multi-format download, or $21.70 paperback)
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- Matthew Bodie, Pamela Bookman, Tal Kastner, Ethan J. Leib, Jake Linford, and Guy Rub, Open Source Contracts (2025) (Creative Commons-licensed multi-format download, as chapters or as various casebook “builds”)
- Charles Fried, Contracts (2017) (H2O playlist)
- Val Ricks, The Story of Contract Law (2021) (Creative Commons-licensed multi-format download, or two-volume $24.10 + $14.48 paperback)
- Franklin G. Snyder and Mark Edwin Burge, American Contract Law for a Global Age (Creative Commons-licensed multi-format download, or $20.11 paperback)
- J.H. Verkerke, Contract Doctrine, Theory & Practice (2012) (Creative Commons-licensed multi-format download, or three-volume $10.22 + $6.38 + $8.60 paperback)
As I said at the top: Wow!
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