Casebooks (Law) (Genre/Form Term)

Genre/form terms for law materials [report prepared by the Technical Services Special Interest Section of AALL], 2010: Casebooks (This heading is used as a genre/form heading for law school textbooks containing leading court decisions in a particular field, together with commentary and other material useful for classroom discussion)

Reitz, J.M. ODLIS : online dictionary for library and information science, Nov. 8, 2017 (casebook: A book containing records or descriptions of actual cases that have occurred in a professional discipline (law, medicine, psychology, sociology, social work, counseling, etc.), selected to illustrate important principles and concepts, for the use of students as a textbook and practitioners for reference. Legal casebooks are typically plainly bound. Compare with case study)

Merriam-Webster dictionary online, Nov. 8, 2017 (casebook 1: a book containing records of illustrative cases that is used for reference and instruction (as in law or medicine) 2: a compilation of primary and secondary documents relating to a central topic together with scholarly comment, exercises, and study aids that is designed to serve as a sourcebook for short papers (as in a writing course) or as a point of departure for a research paper)

Law school textbooks containing leading court decisions in a particular field, together with commentary and other material useful for classroom discussion.