Clermont's Principles of Civil Procedure, 6th (Concise Hornbook Series)

Imprint
West Academic Publishing
ISBN-13
9781647086374
Primary Subject
Civil Procedure
Format
eBook
Copyright
2021
Series
Concise Hornbook Series
Publication Date
10/29/2020
eBook - Lifetime digital access to the eBook, with the ability to highlight and take notes.

Description

This Concise Hornbook covers the main points of civil procedure that any student needs to understand, and covers them briefly but thoroughly enough to be understandable. It focuses on the material covered in a typical law school course on civil procedure, tied to no one casebook. It breaks down the subject of civil procedure along the standard lines: a brief orientation; then a lengthier overview of the stages of litigation, followed by a close inspection of the major procedural problems (governing law, authority to adjudicate, former adjudication, and complex litigation); and finally some reflections in conclusion. It discusses specific problems and illustrations, with the aid of generously sprinkled diagrams and special text boxes. Special attention was given to fitting the civil procedure course's main points together to form the big picture, with each topic ending in a section on the “big idea” (separation of powers, vertical federalism, horizontal federalism, full faith and credit, or procedural due process) that the student is supposed to take from the topic.