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Civil Procedure: A Coursebook, Fourth Edition

Authors
  • Joseph W. Glannon
  • Andrew M. Perlman
  • Peter Raven-Hansen
Series / Aspen Casebook Series
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NO
Description
Table of contents
Preface

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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 making it the ideal text for any civil procedure course.

New to the Fourth Edition:

  • New case treatment of personal jurisdiction in the Internet context.
  • 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.

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
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About the authors
Joseph W. Glannon
Professor of Law
Suffolk University

Joseph W. Glannon is a Professor of Law at Suffolk University.

Andrew M. Perlman
Professor of Law
Suffolk University

Andrew M. Perlman is Dean and Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School. Professor Perlman's work focuses on civil procedure, professional responsibility, and law practice technology and innovation. Professor Perlman served as the Chief Reporter for the ABA Commission on Ethics 2020, which successfully proposed numerous changes to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and related policies to address advances in technology and the increasing globalization of law practice.

He is also a member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s Standing Advisory Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct and the Chair of the Section on Professional Responsibility of the Association of American Law Schools (2014). In addition to his writings in civil procedure and professional responsibility, Professor Perlman helped to establish — and is the inaugural Director of — Suffolk’s Institute on Law Practice Technology and Innovation, which offers programs, courses, public lectures, and other information designed to educate students, the legal profession, and the public about technology’s transformation of the practice of law and the delivery of legal services. He is also the Director of the Law School's Concentration in Legal Technology and Innovation.

Prior to joining the Suffolk faculty, Professor Perlman clerked for a federal district court judge and practiced as a litigation associate with the Chicago law firm of Schiff Hardin. He is an honors graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, and he received an LL.M from Columbia, where he was an Associate-in-Law and taught legal research and writing.

Peter Raven-Hansen
Professor of Law, Glen Earl Weston Research Professor of Law
George Washington University

Professor Raven-Hansen is Glen Earl Weston Research Professor of Law Emeritus at George Washington University Law School. There he teaches national security law, counterterrorism law, civil procedure, and evidence, where he co-directs the National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law LL.M. program. He is a co-author of National Security Law and Counterterrorism Law, as well as the monographs, National Security Law and the Power of the Purse and First Use of Nuclear Weapons, and various articles on national security law. He appears frequently as a speaker and panelist on issues of war powers, military detention, military commissions, intelligence operations, counterterrorism, security enforcement, and national security and civil liberties.

Professor Raven-Hansen also is co-author of the widely adopted casebook, Civil Procedure: A Coursebook, and the student hornbook, Understanding Civil Procedure. Before joining the Law School faculty in 1980, Professor Raven-Hansen was in private practice with the firm of Hogan & Hartson in Washington, D.C., and worked as a senior economic analyst with Abt Associates, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He currently assists in civil litigation under the Antiterrorism Act and has appeared in a variety of U.S. and international forums as an expert witness on national security and related civil procedure issues.

Product Information
Edition
Fourth Edition
Publication date
2021-01-31
Copyright Year
2021
Pages
1328
Connected eBook with Study Center + Hardcover
9781543826258
Connected eBook with Study Center (Digital Only)
9781543835748
Subject
Civil Procedure
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