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Bundle: Civil Procedure: Cases and Problems, Eighth Edition and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 2025-2026

Authors
  • Barbara Allen Babcock
  • Toni M. Massaro
  • Norman W. Spaulding
  • Myriam Gilles
  • Thomas O. Main
Series / Aspen Bundle Series
Description

Print + Digital Bundle - This bundle includes both print and digital versions of ISBN 9798892074063, and a digital version of supplement ISBN 9798894103754.

Digital Bundle - This bundle includes a digital-only version of ISBN 9798892074070, and a digital version of supplement ISBN 9798894103754.

 

Civil Procedure: Cases and Problems, Eighth Edition by Barbara Allen Babcock, Toni M. Massaro, Norman W. Spaulding, and Myriam Gilles (the #5 most cited civil procedure scholar in the country) is now available. With both canonical and contemporary cases and engaging hypothetical problems, the eighth edition of Civil Procedure: Cases and Problems promotes student understanding of modern procedure, the adversary system and alternatives, the relationship between substance and procedure, and systemic problems in access to justice. This casebook pioneered the “due process approach” to the study of procedure and is designed to create an inclusive learning environment, emphasizing the formative role of public interest litigation in modern procedural law and the voices of women and people of color in shaping the field in both practice and scholarship.

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 2025-2026: An ideal accompaniment to any civil procedure casebook, this new statutory supplement presents the current Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) along with amendments that may take effect on December 1, 2025. This comprehensive supplement is designed specifically for students, offering not only  the rules but also forms, examples of statutes, and study resources. Whether students are enrolled in a civ pro course or preparing for the bar exam, this book provides an all-in-one resource to navigate the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure with confidence and clarity.

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About the authors
Barbara Allen Babcock
Professor
Stanford University

Barbara Allen Babcock held a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an L.L.B. from Yale Law School. The first woman appointed to the regular faculty, as well as the first woman to hold an endowed chair and the first emerita, at Stanford Law School, Professor Babcock was an expert in criminal and civil procedure. She was also known nationwide for her research into the history of women in the legal profession and, in particular, for her research into the life of California’s pioneering female lawyer and inventor of the public defender, Clara Foltz, whose biography she was writing.

A former assistant attorney general for the Civil Division in the United States Department of Justice, Professor Babcock was a distinguished teacher, being the only four-time winner of the Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching at Stanford Law School. Before joining the Stanford faculty in 1972, she served as a staff attorney and then as the first director of the Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia. Upon her graduation from law school, she clerked for Judge Henry Edgerton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and worked for the noted criminal defense attorney, Edward Bennett Williams. She passed away in 2020.

Toni M. Massaro
Professor
University of Arizona

Toni M. Massaro is Regents Professor, Milton O. Riepe Chair in Constitutional Law, and Dean Emerita of the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona. Professor Massaro holds a B.S. from Northwestern University and a J.D. from the College of William and Mary. She also is the Director of the Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice.

Norman W. Spaulding
Professor
Stanford University

A nationally recognized scholar in the areas of professional responsibility, civil procedure, and federal courts, Norman W. Spaulding’s research concentrates on the history of the American legal profession and theories of adjudication. In 2014, he received the John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2010 he served as the Covington & Burling Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. And in 2004 the Association of American Law Schools presented him with its Outstanding Scholarly Paper Prize for 'Constitution as Counter-Monument: Federalism, Reconstruction and the Problem of Collective Memory,' published in the Columbia Law Review. He is a member of the American Law Institute and the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 2005, he was a professor of law at the UC Berkeley School of Law and an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where he did environmental litigation. Professor Spaulding, JD ’97, served as a law clerk to Judge Betty B. Fletcher (BA ’43) of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Thelton Henderson of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Myriam Gilles

Myriam Gilles is a graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe College and Yale Law School. She was a litigation associate at Kirkland & Ellis before joining the faculty at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she holds the Paul R. Verkuil Research Chair. Professor Gilles specializes in class actions and aggregate litigation and has written extensively on forced arbitration clauses. She has testified before Congress on the impact of forced arbitration and class action bans, and before state legislatures on state law efforts to blunt the effect of these provisions. Professor Gilles currently serves on the boards of the Justice Resource Center and Public Justice and on the board of advisors of the People’s Parity Project. She is an Academic Fellow of the Pound Civil Justice Institute and was elected to the American Law Institute in 2022.

Thomas O. Main
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Professor Main is William S. Boyd Professor of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is an expert in the field of domestic and international civil procedure with numerous publications, including Civil Procedure: Doctrine, Practice, and Context (Aspen Publishing), a leading casebook in the field that is now in its third edition. A second book, Global Issues in Civil Procedure (West), is the first of a series of books intended to globalize the law school curriculum. In addition, he is co-authoring a book with Professor Stephen McCaffrey, Transnational Litigation in Comparative Perspective, to be published by Oxford University Press.

Professor Main has taught domestic and international procedure courses at Pacific McGeorge since 2000, and has also taught as a visiting professor at law schools at Florida State University, Yeshiva University (Cardozo), UC Davis, and foreign law schools. Prior to his academic career, Professor Main was a litigator in the trial department at Hill & Barlow in Boston, Massachusetts, and was the Associate General Counsel at Platinum Equity. He clerked for Judge Ruggero J. Aldisert of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Professor Main has been elected to the American Law Institute and the International Association of Procedural Law.

Product Information
Edition
Eighth Edition
Publication date
2025-06-10
Copyright Year
2025
Pages
1232
Connected eBook Print + Digital Bundle
9798894112879
Digital Bundle
9798894112916
Subject
Civil Procedure
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