by Barbara Allen Babcock; Toni M. Massaro; Norman W. Spaulding
Civil Procedure: Cases and Problems, Seventh Edition
by Barbara Allen Babcock, Toni M. Massaro, Norman W. Spaulding, and new
co-author Myriam Gilles (the #5 most cited civil procedure scholar in
the country) is the ideal casebook for the modern Civil Procedure
course. With lightly-edited cases, both canonical and contemporary, and
engaging hypothetical problems, the Seventh Edition of Civil Procedure: Cases and Problems
promotes student understanding of modern procedure, the adversary
system and alternatives, the relationship between substance and
procedure, and systemic problems in access to justice. This casebook
pioneered the “due process approach” to the study of procedure and is
designed to create an inclusive learning environment, emphasizing the
formative role of public interest litigation in modern procedural law
and the voices of women and people of color in shaping the field in both
practice and scholarship. It is the only major casebook on the market
written by co-authors who together have received more than a dozen
awards for excellence in teaching.
New to the Seventh Edition:
- Shorter notes and materials after principal cases
- Updated
cases and materials on personal and subject matter jurisdiction,
plausibility pleading, affirmative defenses, the new proportionality
requirement in discovery, and more
- Revised and expanded treatment of arbitration and ADR
- Revised and expanded treatment of MDL
- Revised and streamlined treatment of class action doctrine
- Revised and streamlined treatment of preclusion
Professors and students will benefit from:
- Lightly-edited cases paired with thoughtful notes and questions.
- Concise examination of scholarship and empirical data bearing on various procedural rules
- Close
attention to the underlying social and economic contexts in which the
rules function with emphasis on the consequences for vulnerable
populations
- Meaningful
discussion of oft-marginalized topics, including: Alternative Dispute
Resolution, Discovery (including e-discovery), Aggregate Litigation,
Remedies, Adversary Ethics, and Trial Practice.
- Hypothetical
problems presented in each chapter and revisited in later chapters to
support in-class exercises and awareness of how phases of litigation
influence each other.
- A casebook designed to create an inclusive classroom experience
