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Civil Procedure: A Coursebook, Fifth Edition

Authors
  • Joseph W. Glannon
  • Andrew M. Perlman
  • Peter Raven-Hansen
  • Jennifer Reynolds
Series / Aspen Casebook Series
Teaching Materials
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.

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

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Table of Contents
Summary of Contents

Contents
Preface 
Book Features and Conventions
Acknowledgments 


Part I. Introduction 
Chapter 1 An Introduction to American Courts 
Chapter 2 A Description of the Litigation Process and Sources
of Procedural Law 

Part II. Subject Matter Jurisdiction
Chapter 3 Diversity Jurisdiction in the Federal Courts 
Chapter 4 Federal Question Jurisdiction
Chapter 5 Removal of Cases from State to Federal Court 

Part III. Personal Jurisdiction 
Chapter 6 The Evolution of Personal Jurisdiction 
Chapter 7 Specific In Personam Jurisdiction
Chapter 8 Other Constitutional Bases for Personal Jurisdiction
Chapter 9 Long Arm Statutes 
Chapter 10 The Constitutional Requirement of Notice and
Methods of Service of Process 

Part IV. Venue 
Chapter 11 Basic Venue: Statutory Allocation of Cases Within
a Court System 
Chapter 12 Challenges to Venue: Transfers and Dismissals 

Part V. Pleading 
Chapter 13 Basic Pleading 
Chapter 14 Responding to the Complaint (or Not?) 
Chapter 15 Care and Candor in Pleading 
Chapter 16 Amending Pleadings 

Part VI. Joinder and Supplemental Jurisdiction 
Chapter 17 Joinder of Claims and Parties 
Chapter 18 Complex Joinder: Intervention, Interpleader, and
Required Parties 
Chapter 19 Class Actions 
Chapter 20 Supplemental Jurisdiction in the Federal Courts 

Part VII. Discovery 
Chapter 21 Informal Investigation and the Scope of Discovery 
Chapter 22 Discovery Tools 
Chapter 23 Discovery Control and Abuse 

Part VIII. Choice of Law 
Chapter 24 State Law in Federal Courts: The Erie Doctrine 
Chapter 25 Substance and Procedure Under the Erie Doctrine 

Part IX. Trial and Pretrial
Chapter 26 Pretrial Case Management
Chapter 27 Dispositions Without Trial
Chapter 28 The Right to Jury Trial
Chapter 29 Judgment as a Matter of Law (Directed Verdict and JNOV) 
Chapter 30 Jury Instructions and Verdicts
Chapter 31 New Trial and Relief from Judgment 

Part X. After Final Judgment 
Chapter 32 Appeals
Chapter 33 Claim Preclusion 
Chapter 34 Issue Preclusion: Further Limits to Relitigation

Table of Cases 
Table of Statutes and Rules
Index
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About the authors
Joseph W. Glannon
Professor of Law
Suffolk University

Professor Joseph Glannon earned his B.A., M.A.T. and J.D. degrees from Harvard. After clerking for the Massachusetts Appeals Court and serving as Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of Boston, he joined the Suffolk University Law School faculty in 1980. Professor Glannon teaches Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws and Torts, and has written extensively on public tort liability in Massachusetts. He is the author of Civil Procedure: Examples & Explanations, the initial volume of Aspen’s Examples & Explanations series. This widely used student text is now in its Ninth Edition. He also authored The Law of Torts: Examples & Explanations, which is in its Sixth Edition. Professor Glannon is the coauthor, along with Andrew Perlman, Peter Raven-Hansen, and Jennifer Reynolds, of a leading Civil Procedure casebook, Civil Procedure: A Coursebook. He is also the author of a Civil Procedure review text, The Glannon Guide to Civil Procedure, also published by Aspen and now in its Fourth Edition.

Professor Glannon is also the coauthor, along with Dean Perlman and faculty colleague Linda Simard, of an online video review program entitled Practice Perfect Civil Procedure, the first in a series of Practice Perfect titles for Aspen. The second iteration, Practice Perfect Torts, is coauthored by Glannon along with faculty colleague Pat Shin and Professor Julie Steiner of Western New England School of Law.

Professor Glannon had another life before law school. He served as a stage carpenter at Brandeis University and as an Assistant Dean of Students at Bates College before succumbing to the lure of law

Andrew M. Perlman
Dean and Professor of Law
Suffolk University

Andrew Perlman is a nationally recognized voice on the future of legal education and law practice. In 2024, National Jurist named him as one of the top-20 most influential people in legal education.

Among other leadership roles, Dean Perlman has served as an Advisory Council member of the American Bar Association Task Force on the Law and Artificial Intelligence; as the inaugural chair of the governing council of the ABA's Center for Innovation; as the vice chair of the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services; and as the chief reporter of the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20, which was responsible for updating the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct to reflect changes in technology and increased globalization.

Dean Perlman's service also has focused on national and local reform efforts ranging from police practices and access to justice to developing alternate paths to law school and bar admission. For example, he has served as a founding dean for the ABA-Legal Education Police Practices Consortium; as a member of the Law School Admission Council's Legal Education Program Advisory Committee; as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Access to Justice Advisory Committee; as a co-chair of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Subcommittee on Alternative Paths to Licensure; and as a member of the Content Scope Committee of the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE).

Dean Perlman's scholarship has included numerous articles on professional responsibility and legal innovation that have appeared in some of the nation's leading law reviews. He also co-authored a civil procedure casebook, Civil Procedure: A Coursebook (with Professors Joseph W. Glannon, Peter Raven-Hansen, and Jennifer Reynolds) that has been adopted at more than 80 law schools.

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

Professor Raven-Hansen is Glen Earl Weston Research Professor of Law Emeritus at George Washington University Law School. There he taught national security law, counterterrorism law, civil procedure, and evidence, and founded 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 has appeared 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.

Jennifer Reynolds
Orlando John And Marian H. Hollis Professor of Law and Faculty Director, ADR Center
University of Oregon School of Law

Professor Jennifer Reynolds teaches civil procedure, conflict of laws, negotiation, and mediation. Her research interests include negotiation, dispute systems design, and cultural influences and implications of alternative processes. She holds the law school’s Orlando John and Marian H. Hollis endowed professorship.

Professor Reynolds has received the University of Oregon's Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching and the law school's Orlando J. Hollis Teaching Award. She is the Faculty Director of the nationally-ranked, award-winning Oregon Appropriate Dispute Resolution Center. She has served as the national chair of the ADR Section of the Association of American Law Schools and as co-chair of the ABA Dispute Resolution Magazine. In 2016, Reynolds was appointed interim ombudsperson at the University of Oregon, and in 2024, she was appointed interim dean of the law school.

Professor Reynolds received her law degree cum laude from Harvard Law School, her master's degree in English from the University of Texas at Austin, and her bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago. While at Harvard, Professor Reynolds was an editor of the Harvard Law Review; a research assistant for Professor Arthur Miller on Federal Practice and Procedure; and a teaching assistant, researcher, and Harvard Negotiation Research Project Fellow for the Program on Negotiation.

Product Information
Edition
Fifth Edition
Publication date
2025-02-19
Copyright Year
2025
Pages
1328
Connected eBook with Study Center + Hardcover
9781543843781
Connected eBook with Study Center (Digital Only)
9798892074032
Subject
Civil Procedure
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