Civil Procedure: Cases, Materials, and Questions

By Richard D. Freer, Wendy Collins Perdue, Freer, et al.

Book Overview

View or download the free 2015 Online Supplement for this product. This innovative casebook stresses civil procedure as part of the litigation process--a publicly funded system of dispute resolution. It bridges the gap in students' experience that can lead them to feel that civil procedure is unconnected to the 'real world' by including many problems and hypotheticals which are intended to make the material more concrete. The authors use notes and questions that explore the strategic and ethical choices that real lawyers face. The notes also include international and comparative material. One of the keys to the book's success is the 'Introduction and Integration' section at the beginning of each chapter, which provides an overview and indicates how the section fits with other topics. Students sometimes miss the richness of the course because they fail to see how its various aspects fit together--they may come away with a knowledge of individual trees but not an overall sense of the forest. The 'Introduction and Integration' sections help minimize this risk. This book also is available in a three-hole punched, alternative loose-leaf version printed on 8.5 x 11 inch paper with wider margins and with the same pagination as the hardbound book.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0769847420
• ISBN13: 9780769847429
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: LexisNexis
• Length: 853 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.8" x 10.4"

Customer Reviews

Clear coverage of Civil Procedure concepts

CivPro is notoriously the most difficult first-year course. F & P, while not simplifying the material, does help make the material more comprehensible. The authors use a socratic method in the casebook. If you read the case and work through the questions after the case, you should have a pretty good understanding of the case and why the authors included it. They also, and this will kill some who read it unknowingly and skip over notes habitually, hide a LOT of really good info (terrific testbait) in their NOTES. Read the notes. Digest the notes. Learn the notes. Get a decent grade in CivPro.