Bundle: Civil Procedure: Theory and Practice, Sixth Edition and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 2025-2026: With Study Resources

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Linda J. Silberman
Allan R. Stein
Tobias Barrington Wolff
Aaron D. Simowitz
Thomas O. Main

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Publication Date

2025-06-10

Edition

Sixth Edition

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Print + Digital Bundle - This bundle includes both print and digital versions of ISBN 9781543838824 and a digital-only version of supplement ISBN 9798894103754.

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Using the Socratic method, Civil Procedure: Theory and Practice helps students develop strategic, critical thinking, with introductory text, examples, and hypotheticals that equip them for the challenges of practice. Sophisticated yet straightforward, the text strikes an important balance, providing clear exposition while requiring work to achieve deeper insights. An opening chapter gives an overview of the entire process, using real pleadings and discovery materials in the landmark N.Y. Times v. Sullivan case. The innovative “Anatomy of a Litigation” case study chapter systematically leads students from pleadings to verdict, using leading cases to deepen the connection between the classroom and the courtroom. Civil Procedure: Theory and Practice covers the full range of topics, including in-depth treatment of personal and subject-matter jurisdiction, joinder, preclusion, and alternative dispute resolution. Accessible background material for each major case facilitates analysis, and extensive notes and questions frame deep, conceptual issues.

Bundle also includes Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 2025-2026: With Study Resources - 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 civil procedure 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

Linda J. Silberman

Martin Lipton Professor of Law

New York University School of Law

Linda J. Silberman is the Martin Lipton Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, where she teaches Civil Procedure, Comparative Procedure, Conflict of Laws, International Litigation, and International Arbitration. Prior to coming to NYU in 1971, she spent several years in private practice in Chicago. She has also been Professor in Residence at the U.S. Justice Department, Civil Division, Appellate Staff.

Professor Silberman is co-author of a Civil Procedure casebook and Civil Litigation in Comparative Context (2007). She was Co-Reporter for the ALI Project on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments. Her recent scholarship includes her Hague Lectures covering the various Hague Children's Conventions and articles on the role of choice of law in class actions.

Allan R. Stein

Rutgers University—Camden

Allan R. Stein is Professor of Law at Rutgers University–Camden. He earned his B.A. with honors at Haverford College in 1975 and his J.D. in 1978 at the New York University School of Law, where he was articles editor of the Annual Survey of American Law and a member of the Order of the Coif. He is admitted to the Bar in Pennsylvania. Professor Stein was an associate in the litigation department of the Philadelphia law firm of Pepper, Hamilton. He was Reporter to the American College of Trial Lawyers Project on Mass Torts. Professor Stein teaches Civil Procedure, Federal Courts, and Professional Responsibility. His publications include "Erie and Court Access" (Yale Law Journal), "Styles of Argument and Interstate Federalism in the Law of Personal Jurisdiction" (Texas Law Review), "Forum Non Conveniens and the Redundancy of Court Access Doctrine" (University of Pennsylvania Law Review), and "Personal Jurisdiction and the Internet," "Seeing Due Process through the Lens of Regulatory Precision" (Northwestern University Law Review). He also is co-author of a civil procedure casebook for Aspen Publishing Company (with Linda Silberman and Tobias Wolff).

Tobias Barrington Wolff

University of Pennsylvania

Tobias Barrington Wolff is Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He writes and teaches in civil procedure and constitutional law. In the field of procedure, Wolff has specialized in complex litigation and the conflict of laws, where he has articles in venues including the Columbia Law Review and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, along with a casebook—Civil Procedure: Theory and Practice, co-authored with Professors Linda Silberman and Allan Stein—that is now in its third edition. He has consulted in a number of major class action proceedings and currently sits on the Executive Committee of the AALS section on Conflict of Laws.

In the field of constitutional law, Wolff has published articles and essays in venues including the Columbia Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal, on topics including slavery and the Thirteenth Amendment, free speech and the First Amendment, and the rights of gay men and lesbians. He currently serves as a member of the Executive Board for the Equal Justice Society, an organization that seeks to translate the insights of the academy into progressive reforms in law and policy.

Wolff began his teaching career in 2000 at the University of California, Davis Law School, where he was awarded tenure and the title of full professor in the 2004-05 academic year. He was a visiting professor at Stanford Law School in 2003-04 and at Northwestern Law School in fall 2005. Before entering academia, Wolff clerked for Judges Betty Binns Fletcher and William A. Norris, both of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and practiced for two years as a litigator at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York.

Aaron D. Simowitz

Professor Simowitz is an associate professor at Willamette University College of Law (WUCL), where he teaches civil procedure, bankruptcy, negotiation, and a seminar on negotiating and drafting a complex transaction. His research focuses on cross-border business transactions, litigation, and arbitration. He is a chair emeritus of the AALS Section on Conflict of Laws, the director of the Business Lawyering Institute (BLI) at Willamette University, and an Affiliated Scholar with the Classical Liberal Institute at New York University (NYU). He is a co-author of a leading civil procedure casebook (Civil Procedure: Theory and Practice, 2022) and a co-author of the Annual Survey of Choice of Law in the American Courts.

Before joining WUCL, Aaron was a research fellow at NYU’s Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law and a fellow at the Classical Liberal Institute (CLI) at NYU. At NYU, he taught International Litigation & Arbitration with Professor Linda Silberman, a seminar on international commercial law with Professor Franco Ferrari, and the first-year Lawyering course. He has also taught the International Business Transactions and Transnational Litigation & Arbitration courses at Columbia Law School.

Aaron co-convened the inaugural BLI Symposium on “Teaching Better Business Lawyering” and the WUCL-CLI symposium on “The Extraterritorial State.” He received the Young Scholar’s Award from the American Society of International Law’s Private International Law Interest Group for his work on judgment and award enforcement against intangible assets. He practiced at the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and clerked for Judge D. Brooks Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

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.

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