The Charlie Kirk firings will get an entire chapter in future Con Law casebooks.
September 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The Charlie Kirk firings will get an entire chapter in future Con Law casebooks.
That is too many casebooks.
April 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
That is too many casebooks.
Sua sponte and nunc pro tunc, the immigration judge was just rifling through law school casebooks looking for any old Latin gibberish, like it’s some Harry Potter magic incantation BS.
December 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Sua sponte and nunc pro tunc, the immigration judge was just rifling through law school casebooks looking for any old Latin gibberish, like it’s some Harry Potter magic incantation BS.
Waters' competitors appeared in softcover story collections, with names like "Recollections of a Detective" and "Revelations of a Detective." These softcover collections came to be known as "casebooks." And the casebooks, whose heyday was ~1856 to ~1871, sold enormously well.
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June 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Waters' competitors appeared in softcover story collections, with names like "Recollections of a Detective" and "Revelations of a Detective." These softcover collections came to be known as "casebooks." And the casebooks, whose heyday was ~1856 to ~1871, sold enormously well.
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Law school faculty - James Grimmelmann compiled a list of inexpensive and open access casebooks
Inexpensive and Open-Access Casebooks
james.grimmelmann.net
August 6, 2023 at 10:24 AM
Law school faculty - James Grimmelmann compiled a list of inexpensive and open access casebooks
So the dime novel detective authors took character and author names from the casebooks as well as a sugar-coated form of hardboiledness, but left out the true part.
Nonetheless, the dime novels sold very well, as the casebooks before them had.
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Nonetheless, the dime novels sold very well, as the casebooks before them had.
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June 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
So the dime novel detective authors took character and author names from the casebooks as well as a sugar-coated form of hardboiledness, but left out the true part.
Nonetheless, the dime novels sold very well, as the casebooks before them had.
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Nonetheless, the dime novels sold very well, as the casebooks before them had.
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In the period between the wars, the turn-ups of men’s trousers were renowned as a useful source of forensic trace evidence in criminal cases! :) Often mentioned in textbooks, casebooks and so on…
September 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
In the period between the wars, the turn-ups of men’s trousers were renowned as a useful source of forensic trace evidence in criminal cases! :) Often mentioned in textbooks, casebooks and so on…
25 year old casebooks, course packs, and spiral notebooks can go, right?
June 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
25 year old casebooks, course packs, and spiral notebooks can go, right?
Two great points here that highlight deeper failings in legal ed, one cultural, the other structural.
1. Cultural: too much deference to/reverence of SCOTUS/courts. It’s baked into the casebooks.
2. The desperate need for 1L classes on political science and history. Too absent from the casebooks.
1. Cultural: too much deference to/reverence of SCOTUS/courts. It’s baked into the casebooks.
2. The desperate need for 1L classes on political science and history. Too absent from the casebooks.
Two thoughts on the Congressional Supremacy: 1. Maybe don’t start every Constitutional Law with Marbury v. Madison; 2. Develop an account of the Civil Rights Movement that stresses Charles Hamilton turned to the Courts because legislative politics was failing due to voter suppression in the South.
March 23, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Two great points here that highlight deeper failings in legal ed, one cultural, the other structural.
1. Cultural: too much deference to/reverence of SCOTUS/courts. It’s baked into the casebooks.
2. The desperate need for 1L classes on political science and history. Too absent from the casebooks.
1. Cultural: too much deference to/reverence of SCOTUS/courts. It’s baked into the casebooks.
2. The desperate need for 1L classes on political science and history. Too absent from the casebooks.
Professors of Constitutional Law should toss out their casebooks and merely teach: “Whatever Leonard Leo wants” as the lesson.
September 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Professors of Constitutional Law should toss out their casebooks and merely teach: “Whatever Leonard Leo wants” as the lesson.
Late entry for name of the day from a Mrs Easter Trollop #earlymodern
June 17, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Late entry for name of the day from a Mrs Easter Trollop #earlymodern
What's happening in DC right now will, among other things, make its way into criminal procedure casebooks.
August 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
What's happening in DC right now will, among other things, make its way into criminal procedure casebooks.
My favorite bit of little lawyer humor might be the casebooks
September 1, 2026 at 7:49 PM
My favorite bit of little lawyer humor might be the casebooks
Join us to read the #earlymodern #casebooks of #simonforman and #richardnapier online @eui-history.bsky.social. Next session: 19 February. #histmed #histsci #astrology @hagenilda.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social
February 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Join us to read the #earlymodern #casebooks of #simonforman and #richardnapier online @eui-history.bsky.social. Next session: 19 February. #histmed #histsci #astrology @hagenilda.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social
Why do casebooks teach self-defense doctrine via Bernie Goetz rather than Ossian Sweet?
March 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Why do casebooks teach self-defense doctrine via Bernie Goetz rather than Ossian Sweet?
I haven’t been surrounded by this many casebooks since law school.
October 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I haven’t been surrounded by this many casebooks since law school.
Some news!
I am writing a book about everyday bewitchment using, among other records, Napier's casebooks, which I spent four years transcribing.
I want to move away from sensationalist narratives.
I am super glad to have met Fabienne who is amazing.
I've had a can of Red Bull to celebrate.
I am writing a book about everyday bewitchment using, among other records, Napier's casebooks, which I spent four years transcribing.
I want to move away from sensationalist narratives.
I am super glad to have met Fabienne who is amazing.
I've had a can of Red Bull to celebrate.
Exciting Wednesday news: we’re thrilled to be representing @hagenilda.bsky.social for her trade work!
Dr Joanne Edge joins Ki | Ki Agency
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March 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Some news!
I am writing a book about everyday bewitchment using, among other records, Napier's casebooks, which I spent four years transcribing.
I want to move away from sensationalist narratives.
I am super glad to have met Fabienne who is amazing.
I've had a can of Red Bull to celebrate.
I am writing a book about everyday bewitchment using, among other records, Napier's casebooks, which I spent four years transcribing.
I want to move away from sensationalist narratives.
I am super glad to have met Fabienne who is amazing.
I've had a can of Red Bull to celebrate.
There's a whole Londoner/Bi-Metallic discussion in here. No need to assign Administrative Law casebooks anymore. Just assign this rule. It's got a discussion of everything.
February 5, 2026 at 7:09 PM
There's a whole Londoner/Bi-Metallic discussion in here. No need to assign Administrative Law casebooks anymore. Just assign this rule. It's got a discussion of everything.
Not adding this Tornetta opinion to any casebooks or syllabi
December 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Not adding this Tornetta opinion to any casebooks or syllabi
I have two casebooks in my collection that were self-published by members of the Harvard Law faculty in the late 1930s—Barton Leach on Wills, and Scott & Simpson on Remedies. My understanding is that self-published casebooks were common at the time, especially among HLS faculty.
November 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I have two casebooks in my collection that were self-published by members of the Harvard Law faculty in the late 1930s—Barton Leach on Wills, and Scott & Simpson on Remedies. My understanding is that self-published casebooks were common at the time, especially among HLS faculty.
50 years from now, her dissents are going to be in the casebooks.
September 25, 2026 at 2:42 PM
50 years from now, her dissents are going to be in the casebooks.
Hey here's something: If you live in the greater Seattle area and have old law school casebooks, hornbooks, or bar prep materials that you want to get rid of, please DM me, I will come take them off your hands and maybe deliver you a prize for your troubles
November 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Hey here's something: If you live in the greater Seattle area and have old law school casebooks, hornbooks, or bar prep materials that you want to get rid of, please DM me, I will come take them off your hands and maybe deliver you a prize for your troubles
You know what? I don't think this is true, and the reason I don't think it is that I clerked for Alex Kozinski, a guy who wrote opinions that lots of people loved and put in casebooks, even and especially when they were contrarian because who doesn't love a controversy?
Recently I asked a mutual friend what motivates Judge Ho to take radical positions, including ones he must expect will be reversed by SCOTUS. The answer was that he truly believes he is right about all these things and is going to follow his own beliefs, without regard for precedent, etc.
November 12, 2024 at 12:26 AM
You know what? I don't think this is true, and the reason I don't think it is that I clerked for Alex Kozinski, a guy who wrote opinions that lots of people loved and put in casebooks, even and especially when they were contrarian because who doesn't love a controversy?
One for the professional responsibility casebooks...
Musk's argument: it's not a lottery, it's a hiring process!
November 4, 2024 at 4:44 PM
One for the professional responsibility casebooks...