Free CALI eBooks--Federal Rules, IP Statutes, and More

Nothing suits a thrifty student's budget better than CALI eBooks: they're free! Most are available in a variety of formats--e.g., PDF, Kindle, or Word (great for copying and pasting into your outlines).

CALI eBooks includes texts prepared by faculty for use in class (e.g., The Ethics of Tax Lawyering, by UW Law Professor Michael Hatfield), sets of statutes and rules, and some classics of law and literature.

Rules and Statutes

If you frequently need to refer to, say, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or the Copyright Act, download a set:

• Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure
• Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure
• Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
• Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
• Federal Rules of Evidence
• United States Bankruptcy Code
• United States Copyright Law
• United States Patent Law
• United States Securities Law (statutes and regulations)
• United States Trademark Law
  

Constitution and Related Documents

• The Foundational Documents of the American Legal System (Constitution, Magna Carta, Declaration of Independence, and more) 
• The Federalist Papers
  

Law and Literature

• Charles Dickens, Bleak House
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
• Franz Kafka, The Trial
• Herman Melville, Billy Budd
• William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
• Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle