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Civil Procedure, Twelfth Edition

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Authors
  • Stephen C. Yeazell
  • Joanna C. Schwartz
  • Maureen Carroll
Series / Aspen Casebook Series
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912 pages
Publication Date
2025-09-15
Edition
Twelfth Edition
Teaching Materials
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Table of contents
Preface

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In Civil Procedure, Twelfth Edition, the authors employ a pedagogical style that offers flexible organization at a manageable length. The book gives students a working knowledge of the procedural system and introduces the techniques of statutory analysis. The cases selected are factually interesting and do not involve substantive matters beyond the experience of first-year students. The problems following the cases present real-life issues. Finally, the book incorporates a number of dissenting opinions to dispel the notion that most procedural disputes present clear-cut issues.

New to the Twelfth Edition:
  • Lengthier edited versions of the leading personal jurisdiction cases that allow students to grapple with the key issues while retaining a manageable length
  • Replacement of Detroit Will Breathe with Winter v. NRDC to illustrate the preliminary judgment standard
  • Return of Interpleader materials
  • A new case, Bluegrass Marine, that clearly explains and applies the standards for defaults, default judgments, and motions to vacate
  • Discussion of local and individual judges’ rules
  • Larger, easier-to-read format
Benefits for instructors and students:
  • Teachable, well-structured casebook featuring a clear organization, concisely edited cases chosen to be readily accessible to first-year students, textual notes introducing each section that highlight connections between material, and practical problems
  • Manageable length which allows the class to get through this complex course material in limited hours
  • Flexible organization, adaptable to a variety of teaching approaches
  • Clear, straightforward writing style, making the material accessible to students without oversimplifying
  • Effective overview of the procedural system, which provides students with a working knowledge of the system and of techniques for statutory analysis
  • Assessment questions and answers at the end of each chapter, to help students test their comprehension of the material
  • Sample complaints, briefs, discovery, dockets, and other materials from cases excerpted in the casebook that can be shared with students to illustrate civil litigation practice
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Table of Contents
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

Contents 
Preface 
Acknowledgments 

Chapter 1 An Overview of Procedure 
PART I THE CONSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR U.S. LITIGATION
Chapter 2 Personal Jurisdiction and Notice 
Chapter 3 Subject Matter Jurisdiction of the Federal Courts 
Chapter 4 State Law in Federal Courts: Erie and Choice of Law 

PART II THE PROCESS OF LITIGATION 
Chapter 5 Incentives to Litigate 
Chapter 6 Pleading 
Chapter 7 Discovery 
Chapter 8 Resolution Without Trial 
Chapter 9 The Trier and the Trial 
Chapter 10 Appeal
Chapter 11 Respect for Judgments 

PART III PROBING THE BOUNDARIES: ADDITIONAL CLAIMS AND PARTIES 
Chapter 12 Joinder 

Table of Cases 
Table of Citations to the Judicial Code (28 U.S.C.) 
Table of Citations to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Table of Authorities
Index 
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About the authors
Stephen C. Yeazell
University of California, Los Angeles

Stephen Yeazell is David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at the UCLA School of Law. He writes about the history, theory, and dynamics of modern civil litigation. His courses correspond to these interests. He has received the campus’s highest awards for his teaching (the University's Distinguished Teaching Award), his research (the UCLA Faculty Research Lectureship), and his service (the Carole E. Goldberg award for distinguished service by an emeritus professor). He was also the first recipient of the School of Law's Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has served as Associate Dean of the School of Law, as Chair of the UCLA Academic Senate, and as Interim Dean of the School of Law. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Before studying law, Professor Yeazell did graduate work in English literature and taught English and history in junior high schools in New York City, an experience, he reports, that has made him appreciate the relative calm of even the feistiest law school class. After law school, he clerked for Justice Mathew Tobriner of the California Supreme Court.

Professor Yeazell's books include From Medieval Group Litigation to the Modern Class Action (1987); Contemporary Civil Litigation (2009); Civil Procedure (10th ed., 2018, with Joanna Schwartz); and Lawsuits in a Market Economy: The Evolution of Civil Litigation (U. Chicago Press, 2018).

Joanna C. Schwartz
Professor
University of California, Los Angeles

Joanna Schwartz is a Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. She teaches Civil Procedure, the Civil Rights Litigation Clinic, and a variety of courses on police accountability and public interest lawyering. In 2015, she received UCLA’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Professor Schwartz is one of the country’s leading experts on police misconduct litigation. Her studies examine the frequency with which police departments gather and analyze information from lawsuits, and the ways in which litigation-attentive departments use lawsuit data to reduce the likelihood of future harms.

She has also examined the financial effects of police misconduct litigation, including the frequency with which police officers contribute to settlements and judgments in police misconduct cases, and the extent to which police department budgets are affected by litigation costs. Professor Schwartz has also looked more broadly at how lawsuits influence decision-making in hospitals, airlines, and other organizational settings.

Professor Schwartz additionally studies the dynamics of modern civil litigation. Recent scholarship examines the degree to which litigation costs and delays necessitate current civil procedure rules, and compares rhetoric with available evidence about the costs and burdens of class action litigation. She is co-author, with Stephen Yeazell, of a leading casebook, Civil Procedure (9th Edition).

Professor Schwartz is a graduate of Brown University and Yale Law School. She was awarded the Francis Wayland Prize for her work in Yale Law School’s Prison Legal Services clinic. After law school, Professor Schwartz clerked for Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York and Judge Harry Pregerson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She was then associated with Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP, in New York City, where she specialized in police misconduct, prisoners’ rights, and First Amendment litigation. She was awarded the New York City Legal Aid Society's Pro Bono Publico Award for her work as co-counsel representing a class of inmates challenging conditions at Rikers Island.

Immediately prior to her appointment, Professor Schwartz was the Binder Clinical Teaching Fellow at UCLA School of Law.

Maureen Carroll
Professor
University of Michigan Law School

Maureen Carroll is a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. She teaches and writes about civil procedure, class actions, and civil rights litigation. Carroll is particularly interested in how procedure, substantive law, and the structure of the legal profession interact to define the scope of access to justice for identity-based discrimination and other broadly shared injuries. Her scholarship has appeared in the Duke Law Journal, the Boston University Law Review, and the Indiana Law Journal. Following law school, Carroll worked as a staff attorney in impact litigation for Public Counsel in Los Angeles. She then returned to the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law as the Bernard A. and Lenore S. Greenberg Law Review Fellow.
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Edition
Twelfth Edition
Publication date
2025-09-15
Copyright Year
2025
Pages
912
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Subject
Civil Procedure
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