It includes statues, regs, and judicial decisions
Coyle 22, Reef C. Ivey II Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (John F., November, 2022, ARTICLE: "Contractually Valid"Forum Selection Clauses, 108 Iowa L. Rev. 127, 160. Lexis accessed online via KU libraries) s
Legal scholars have long distinguished between the "law on the books" and the "law in action." 198The law on the books is "the content of statutes, regulations, and judicial decisions," while the law in action "refers to regularities describing how legal authorities enforce the "law on the books.'" 199The previous two Sections surveyed the law on the books as it relates to the enforcement of forum selection clauses in federal court. This Section describes how federal courts actually apply that law in the cases that come before them.