Civil Procedure: Cases And Problems (Casebook)

The new edition of this accessible casebook captures the traditional and modern complexities of the subject while conveying the urgency, social significance, and intellectual depth of litigation procedure and the adversary system. Accompanied by a first-rate Teacher's Manual, CIVIL PROCEDURE: Cases and Problems, Third Edition, facilitates both teaching and learning.The casebook offers a wide range of advantages:begins with famous old cases on notice and the opportunity to be heard, helping students understand both jurisdiction and the procedural rules in a solid frameworklocates procedure within a larger constitutional context and sets the stage for upper level work in Procedure and Federal Courtsestablishes due process as a conceptual framework students can readily grasp and apply throughout the courseengages students in the substantive fairness dimension of procedure that otherwise can become obscured by the specifics of procedural rulesuses carefully edited classic cases to allow instructors to teach the art of close readinghighlights the relationship between the adversary system and access to justice; attends to the role of women and minorities in all aspects of the civil procedure systemdemonstrates core doctrinal principles at work by presenting major Supreme Court precedents, followed by lively lower court decisionsopens each chapter with a problem that brings the rules covered to life and accommodates different teaching styles by allowing the cases and notes to be taught with or without the problemsproblems are also designed to double as practice exam questions for studentsnotes are short and focused on guiding student inquiry to enhance Socratic dialogue and avoid overwhelming the pedagogy of the casesMajor changes for the Third Edition include:the introduction of new author Norman Spaulding, who draws on years of experience teaching from the bookupdates to coverage of jurisdiction in cyber-spacerevised section on class actions covering new cases and reform legislationmore attention paid to ethical issues, as well as empirical and policy debates on the adversary systemthe completely revised and expanded section on summary judgment makes the Celotex standard comprehensible through its progeny and presents new data on the impact of the standardthe popular Teacher's Manual -- an ideal resource for the new instructor --has been revised and reformatted to provide a thorough guide to teaching the first-year course and advanced topics, with detailed Socratic Q&A, explanations of problems, and comprehensive advice about structuring the course and approaches to teaching chapters and topicsBarbara Allen Babcock is the author of 'Civil Procedure: Cases And Problems (Casebook)', published 2006 under ISBN 9780735556201 and ISBN 0735556202.