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The H2O Landmark Case Collection

The H2O Landmark Case Collection is a series of open casebooks based on the List of Landmark Court Decisions in the U.S. on Wikipedia.

Landmark cases are court decisions that change history, and law, on their ruling. This series contains 22 casebooks by topic and 250+ cases and resources made available by the Caselaw Access Project at Harvard Law School Library and more.

The H2O Landmark Case Collection was created with H2O, a platform for creating high quality, freely available online casebooks. Casebooks made available in this series can be used to create new resources in H2O - like adapting “Landmark Decisions: Freedom of Speech and of the Press” to include your own commentary and annotations.

We want this series to create building blocks for new open educational resources in law. Have you used H2O to create a new casebook, syllabus, or reading list? We’re excited to hear about it.

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Introducing H2O Quick Add

H2O quick add is a new way to create your casebooks and syllabi more quickly and easily.

Quick add lets you start your next casebook in H2O by importing a table of contents from the resources you have in Word. When you create a new resource in H2O, from casebooks to reading lists and syllabi, the quick add feature makes it faster and easier to share cases and more. Here’s how it works!

Find your syllabus or table of contents, select and copy your text. Here’s one example from a course in constitutional law:

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Cloning Sections and Resources in Open Casebooks on H2O

One of the fundamental principles of H2O, and open educational resources in general, is that authors can freely share, copy and adapt the work of others, with appropriate attribution. Since its beginning, H2O has embodied this principle through features that allow cloning and adaptation of casebooks.

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