Cornell's Legal Information Institute (LII) and the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) have teamed up to create free eBook versions of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and the Federal Rules of Evidence. The ebooks are published in the .epub format, making them compatible with iPads, iPhones, Nooks, and numerous other e-reader programs. However, these ebooks are not compatible with Amazon's Kindle. CALI and LII promise that "Kindle support is coming soon."

Federal Rules of Evidence ebook on the iPhone iBook shelf.

A sample page from the Federal Rules of Evidence ebook.

References to specific rules in the Federal Rules of Evidence ebook's Table of Contents link directly to the rules within the book.

The federal rules ebooks include:

• The complete rules as of December 1, 2010.
• All notes of the Advisory Committee immediately following each rule.
• Internal links to rules referenced from the Table of Contents.
• Internal links to rules referenced within the rules.
• External links to the LII website's version of the US Code.

On its Web site, LII describes itself as, "a not-for-profit group that believes everyone should be able to read and understand the laws that govern them, without cost."

CALI describes itself as, "a nonprofit consortium that welcomes membership from law schools, paralegal programs, law firms, individuals, or any organization that wishes to learn or teach the law."