Civil Procedure: A Coursebook [Connected eBook with Study Center] (Aspen Casebook)

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Civil Procedure: A Coursebook offers students doctrinal clarity without sacrificing analytical rigor or glossing over ambiguities. The book’s accessibility, organization, and interior design support its innovative pedagogy.

New to the 5th Edition:

• Revised treatment of personal jurisdiction with significant coverage of the Supreme Court’s Ford decision.
• New cases and materials for affirmative defenses (qualified immunity), class certification (stop and frisk policy), summary judgment (police shooting/qualified immunity), and issue preclusion (official misconduct), helping students connect procedure to current social issues.
• New case treatment of proportionality in discovery.
• Revised section on intervention as of right under Rule 24.
• New material on settlement and alternative dispute resolution.

Professors and student will benefit from:

• Nearly all questions asked are answered in the book
• Each chapter includes mini table of contents at beginning and summary of fundamentals at end
• Each case prefaced by accessible introduction
• Interior design and graphics support innovative pedagogy
• In-depth Teacher’s Manual, with accompanying website that contains additional teaching resources