Law
This section of the guide contains OER specific to Law. The first section contains Australian content relating to the Australian jurisdiction of law. The second section contains a variety of resources from overseas jurisdictions.
Deakin OER
Corporate Insolvency Law in Australia by Paulina Fishman (2024) is licensed under CC BY 4.0
This extensive set of lecture slides provides a detailed introduction to corporate insolvency law in Australia. Chapters include: corporate insolvency and external administration; arrangements and compromises; controllers, including receivers; administration and DOCAs; restructuring and restructuring plans; winding up generally and deregistration; court-ordered winding up and provisional liquidation; voluntary winding up and winding up by ASIC; recovering property or compensation; duties, their breach and offences.
Paulina Fishman, ‘Solving Insolvency Law’s Pedagogical Problems’ in Ash Barber et al (eds), Open Education Down UndOER: Australasian Case Studies (2024) is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Australian OER
Legal research & legal skills
- "A Guide to Writing in Law School" by Steven Tudor and Stephanie Falconer (2024) is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- "The Law Clinic Experience: A Guidebook for Students" by Francina Cantatore (2023) is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0
- "Legal Research Skills: An Australian Law Guide" (2025-) by The University of Queensland Library, James Cook University Library, University of Southern Queensland Library, Charles Darwin University Library, Southern Cross University Library, Queensland University of Technology Library, Deakin University Library, University of South Australia Library, Edith Cowan University Library, University of Tasmania Library, and The Australian National University Library is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0
- "Becoming a climate conscious lawyer" by Julia Dehm et al (2024) is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Other Australian legal OER
- "The Australian Constitution and National Identity" by Anna Olijnyk and Alexander Reilly (2023) licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- "Australian IP Law open textbook" by Nicolas Suzor, Kylie Pappalardo, Jessica Thiel, Amanda Scardamaglia and Jay Sanderson (2020) is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- "Linguistic Organisation and Native Title: The Wik Case, Australia" by Peter Sutton and Kenneth Locke Hale (2021) is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- "Svantesson on the Law of Obligations: 4th edition (Revised)" by Dan Jerker B. Svantesson (2022) is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0
International OER
- "Advanced Legal Research: Process and Practice" by Megan Austin (2023) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (Jurisdiction: USA)
- "Tort Law: Cases and Commentaries - 2nd Edition" by Samuel Beswick (2021) is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (Jurisdiction: Canada)
- "Global Corruption: Its Regulation under International Conventions, US, UK, and Canadian Law and Practice - Fourth Edition" by Gerry Ferguson (2022) is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (Jurisdiction: USA, Canada, UK)
- "Introduction to Criminology" by Shereen Hassan and Dan Lett (2023) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (Jurisdiction: Canada)
- "Business Law, Ethics, and Sustainability" by Andrew J Hosmanek, Brendan Smith and Michael Dayton (2022) is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (Jurisdiction: USA)
- "Indigenous Perspectives on Business Ethics and Business Law in British Columbia" by Annette Sorensen and Scott van Dyk (2024) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (Jurisdiction: Canada)
- "Introduction to business law in Papua New Guinea" by Andrew Gibson (2024) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (Jurisdiction: PNG)
- "Reproduction Policy in the Twenty-First Century : A Comparative Analysis" edited by Hannah Zagel (2024) is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Jurisdiction: International)
Where to find more OER?
There are many platforms available that contain OER, the platforms listed below are a good starting place to find openly available law resources.
- Open Educational Resources Collective - The primary platform for the publication of Australian OER. The Open Educational Resources Collective is an initiative of the Council of Australian University Librarians.
- Australian National University (ANU) Law: Playlist of 23 Law Videos from The Australian National University.
- LaTrobe eBureau - LaTrobe eBureau publications high-quality open educational resources enabling La Trobe University teaching staff to be the authors of their own open textbooks.
- Bloomsbury Collections - Hart Publishing Ltd have released 48 ebook titles as Open Access. When searching for ebooks on the Bloomsbury Collections website, select "Only Show Open Access Titles" in the filter.
- H2O - was built at Harvard Law School by the Library. You can find casebooks, cases and authors. All the content on H2O is licensed for sharing and adaptation under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)