H2O Open Casebook

H2O is a platform for creating, sharing, and remixing open course materials.

Where can I find H2O Open Casebook?

Why does H2O Open Casebook exist?

Traditional textbooks, especially legal casebooks, are heavy, expensive and inflexible. Students will spend several thousand dollars on casebooks by the time they graduate even though the bulk of the content - the cases - are in the public domain and should be freely accessible. Legal education is also changing quickly, and commercial, hardbound casebooks can’t keep up. H2O allows instructors to find open casebooks they can use or adapt, or create their own from scratch.

Project Contributors

Tom Boone Faculty Services Librarian Catherine Brobston Product and Research Manager Brennan Chesley Developer Rebecca Cremona Senior Software Engineer Emma Cushman Contributing developer Jack Cushman Director Liza Daly Technologist in Residence Kelly Fitzpatrick Research Associate Casey Gruppioni Developer Varun Iyer 2022 Summer Research Assistant Brett Johnson Outreach and Support Seonghee Lee 2022 Summer Research Assistant Greg Leppert Product and Research Director Dustin Lewis Project Manager Clare Stanton Product and Research Director Ben Steinberg DevOps Shailin Thomas Affiliate, Berkman Center for Internet & Society Adam Ziegler Director Jonathan Zittrain Harvard Faculty and Law School Library Director