Also see related resources in this website:
and:
This section does include new resources on Agricultural Law, an emerging area of scholarly research, especially due to the recent scholarly interest in the intersection of Climate Change and Agriculture:
see, for example, this recent textbook:
MIT Press, Harvard Law School Library launch law textbook series
The MIT Press and Harvard Law School Library have announced the launch of the Open Casebook series. Leveraging free and open texts created and updated by distinguished legal scholars, the series offers high-quality yet affordable printed textbooks for use in law teaching across the country, tied to online access to the works and legal opinions under open licenses.
The first book in the series is Torts! by Jonathan Zittrain, George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Jordi Weinstock, Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Torts! serves as primary text for a first-year law school torts course. Taken together, the cases within the book show differing approaches to the problems of defining legal harm and applying those definitions to a messy world.
The Open Casebook series leverages free and open texts created by distinguished legal scholars on Harvard’s H2O platform. Created by Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab, H2O facilitates the building, sharing, and remixing of open-access digital textbooks, with cases drawn from the Lab’s companion Caselaw Access Project, which scanned and made freely available access to all American case law. Authors can create their own original books with H2O, finding and adapting existing texts to refine and build upon one another’s work. Learn more and access titles at http://www.opencasebook.org
NEW!
NEW!
(Google Scholar is available at https://scholar.google.com)
OER RESOURCES FOR LAW:
VII. Law
FROM RMIT: OER RESOURCES
https://rmit.libguides.com/c.php?g=924918
OER MATERIALS for LAW: OER = OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES:
- OER Commons - Law OER Commons provides a curated collection of textbooks and resources for Law studies.
- Saylor Academy Open Textbooks Repository of textbooks used for Saylor Academy's courses, which are freely available and open for downloading and sharing for the public
- Open Textbook Library - Law The Open Textbook Library provides a growing catalogue of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks.
NEW!
A NEW LEGAL SEARCH ENGINE: LAW REVIEW COMMONS
"Over 300 open-access law reviews · Over 220,000 articles · Free current issues & archives from 1852."
"Open Access Increases Visibility: Publishing open access increases the visibility of legal scholarship, makes scholars’ work more discoverable, and may also lead to more citations."
("Scholarship is a core priority for the Pacific McGeorge faculty. Among their scholarly pursuits, Pacific McGeorge faculty develop and present at scholarly symposia and conferences, author books for the legal profession, students, and the general public, and produce scholarship for top journals around the country and the world.")
AND: CURRENT ARTICLES ON ALL ASPECTS OF LAW -- INCLUDING INTERNATIONAL AND FOREIGN LAW -- AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW -- MAY BE FOUND HERE
INCLUDES: Legalizing Marijuana: Lessons from the United States, Michael Vitiello
(Includes information on the U.S. Court system as well)
INCLUDES:
Indigenous Law in Central America: A Key to Improving Life and Justice, Julie A. Davies
American Bar Association: Teacher's Portal
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LEGAL LESSON PLANS
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"Social studies and government teachers may want to bookmark this site as they dive into spring semester curriculum planning. Curated by the American Bar Association's Division for Public Education, the lesson portal contains an array of materials that build a foundation for how the legal system affects various aspects of our lives. Lessons are arranged by elementary, middle, and high school grade levels. Though the content covered for each level varies slightly, some topic areas include Civic Engagement, Due Process, and Law and Literature. Educators preparing for Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, January 18, may enjoy the Equal Protection lesson plans, which include "Realizing the Dream Today" (specifically analyzing aspects of his vision for equality). Educators looking ahead to Constitution Day (celebrated each September) will find constitutional law-themed curriculum available for each grade level. In addition to these educator-specific resources, the Division for Public Education also produces a variety of tools for the general public that may be of interest to all readers."
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(Links to the Full Text of the article are found in the link above)
ADDITIONAL ARTICLE:
The Animal Welfare Act at Fifty: Problems and Possibilities in Animal Testing Regulation, Courtney G. Lee
(includes recommended reading)
"Access to fresh water is a fundamental need of every society. As such, international law and policy have become involved to help maintain the quality and quantity of water resources and balance access to them among all interested parties.
The International Water Law Project provides readers with comprehensive information on the subject, featuring full texts of the major diplomatic agreements, including United Nations agreements regarding international watercourses and transboundary groundwater aquifers, treaty drafts, and regional agreements organized by continent.
This resource also includes a section on international case law, a helpful list of transboundary water management organizations, an extensive bibliography, and a list of related websites.
Readers may also want to check out the International Water Law Project's blog, where they will find thoughtful essays by legal scholars from around the world on various aspects of water law, with blog archives dating back to 2009. The International Water Law Project is created, directed, and actively maintained by Gabriel Eckstein, Professor of Law at Texas A&M University." (from the INTERNET SCOUT REPORT, MARCH 20, 2020)
Many additional Preprint Search Engines are found in this article, appearing in the College and Research Libraries News
FINDING AND SEARCHING FOR PREPRINTS
SEARCH OSF PREPRINTS
PREPRINT FAQs
(More Free textbooks in all fields are available in the Open Textbook Library and FREE ONLINE TEXTBOOKS)
ANOTHER SEARCH ENGINE FOR LAW AND LEGAL ISSUES:
and
THE INTERNET ARCHIVE SCHOLAR for COMPLETE FULL-TEXT ARTICLES
https://scholar.archive.org/
OTHER FREE DATABASES AND NEW SEARCH ENGINES TO CONSULT FOR ARTICLES ON LAW AND LEGAL ISSUES MAY BE FOUND IN THIS SEPARATE WEBSITE:
https://bit.ly/OAD112
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