HeinOnline’s West Academic Casebooks Archive

West Academic and HeinOnline teamed together to create the West Academic Casebooks Archive. 

Available via HeinOnline, this database includes not only casebooks, but hornbooks, nutshells, and other miscellaneous West books that are out-of-print and superseded. Only editions prior to the two most recent editions of a title will be available.

Casebooks are used to teach law by illustrating key principles from cases -- as opposed to a lecture or hornbook method. 

Hornbooks are a primer for different specific areas of the law. They refer to legal principles that have been long-established and accepted as part of the law -- they cover fundamental concepts. 

Nutshells are concise summaries of different topics that provide understandable, dependable introductions to a field of law or legal topic, although without extensive case referencing or analysis. 

Some titles available in the database include:

•  Principles of Criminal Procedure (5th ed.) (2016)
• Family Law in a Nuthsell (6th ed.) (2017)
• Contract Law: Selected Source Materials Annotated (2017 ed.)
• Learning Civil Procedure (2nd ed.) (2015)

For more information on searching, documents, or the database itself, consult HeinOnline's West Academic Casebooks Archive subject guide.

HeinOnline along with West Academic Digital Library (which contains the current editions of hornbooks and nutshells) is accessible at the library or remotely for select members using their Jenkins' account. Have any questions? Ask us!