Open Textbook Collections
-
Open Textbook Library – LawThe Open Textbook Library provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks. The Open Textbook Library is supported by the Center for Open Education and the Open Textbook Network.
-
MERLOTMERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.
-
OER CommonsOER Commons provides a curated collection of textbooks and resources for Law students.
-
The National Academies Press (NAP)This is a great resource that provides textbooks on law and justice studies.
-
Project Gutenberg – Crime Bookshelf (Nonfiction)A collection of non-fiction books written about crime.
-
Project Gutenberg – United States Law BookshelfProject Gutenberg’s list of United States Law books.
- Open textbooks from Saylor Academy.
- Advanced Business Law and the Legal Environment
From Saylor Academy
- Business Law and the Legal Environment
From Saylor Academy
- Foundations of Business Law and the Legal Environment
From Saylor Academy
- Government Regulation and the Legal Environment of Business
From Saylor Academy
-
Law for EntrepreneursFrom Saylor Academy
-
Law of Commercial TransactionsFrom Saylor Academy
- The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business
From Saylor Academy
-
Legal Aspects of Corporate Management and FinanceFrom Saylor Academy
-
Legal Aspects of Marketing and SalesFrom Saylor Academy
- Advanced Business Law and the Legal Environment
- Book Archive
A collection of books licensed under the Creative Commons by-nc-sa 3.0 license.
Courses and Related Materials
- Lumen Learning – Business Law
Lumen Learning provides a textbook that covers various aspects of law.
-
Harvard Free Legal Research SitesFree online legal research resources
-
MIT OpenCourseWare: Legal StudiesCourse content from MIT
-
CourseraEvery course on Coursera is taught by top instructors from the world’s best universities and educational institutions. Courses include recorded video lectures, auto-graded and peer-reviewed assignments, and community discussion forums.
-
Future Learn – Crimonology and Justice CoursesExplore the role of the state in regulating criminal behavior and the parts played by those in the criminal justice system or explore how the vast amounts of data generated today can help us understand and even predict how humans behave.
-
Future Learn – Law CoursesFrom international law and forensic science, to criminal justice and legal ethics: gain a better understanding of legal fields and process with our online law courses from the world’s major universities.
-
Open Learn – Society, Politics, and LawProduced by The Open University, a world leader in open and distance learning, all OpenLearn courses are free to study. We offer nearly 1000 free courses across 8 different subject areas. Our courses are available to start right away.
-
TED ED: Lessons Worth Sharing – CivicsCreate and share lessons around any TED-Ed original, TED Talk or YouTube Video.
-
Legal StudiesA playlist of videos centering around law and legal cases
-
TED: LawTED Talks from experts on various topics.
Books and Journals
-
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB): LawDirectory of academic, peer-reviewed books
-
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Legal StudiesDirectory of high quality, peer-reviewed journals
-
E-Books Directory: LawBooks, documents, and lecture notes
-
Freebookcentre.net: LawTechnical books
-
Law Review CommonsThe largest collection of free and open law review scholarship
-
University of California Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: LawBooks from academic presses
Additional Resources
-
Amnesty InternationalAmnesty International is a global movement of more than 7 million people who take injustice personally. We are campaigning for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all.
-
Films for ActionFilms For Action is a community-powered learning library for people who want to change the world. Films For Action has cataloged over 1,500 of the best films and videos that can be watched free online. These films address social, environmental, and media-related issues.
-
FrontlineFrontline is a public affairs series from PBS and includes many videos on criminal justice that are freely available online.
-
HathiTrustHathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
-
The International Court of Justice (ICJ)The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations (UN). It was established in June 1945 by the Charter of the United Nations and began work in April 1946.
-
Internet Archive: Digital LibraryInternet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
-
Juvenile JusticeA companion web site for the Frontline PBS program. Includes facts and statistics, a review of the “adult vs. child” debate, and four case studies (with video clips).
-
Memrise – LawUses images and audio to help memorize vocabulary. Interactive site that saves individual progress.
-
The Open Data InstituteThe Open Data Institute works with companies and governments to build an open, trustworthy data ecosystem, where people can make better decisions using data and manage its harmful impacts.
-
Oxford Criminology and Justice EncyclopediaBrowse subjects such as Critical Criminology, Geography of Crime, International Crime, Juvenile Justice, Policing, Prevention/Public Policy, and Research Methods.
-
The Stanford Prison ExperimentAn extensive slide show and information about this classic psychology experiment, including parallels with the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
-
Statistics – Open IntroA college-level textbook covering data basics, probability (optional), distributions, inference for means and proportions, and regression, including multiple and the basics of logistic regression.
-
U.S. Department of State – Diplomacy in ActionThe U.S. Department of State advances the interests of the American people, their safety and economic prosperity, by leading America’s foreign policy through diplomacy, advocacy, and assistance.
-
The International Criminal Court (ICC)The International Criminal Court (ICC) investigates and, where warranted, tries individuals charged with the gravest crimes of concern to the international community: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression.