Civil Procedure: Cases and Problems 7th Edition

Civil Procedure: Cases and Problems, Seventh Edition by Barbara Allen Babcock, Toni M. Massaro, Norman W. Spaulding, and new  co-author Myriam Gilles (the #5 most cited civil procedure scholar in  the country) is the ideal casebook for the modern Civil Procedure  course. With lightly-edited cases, both canonical and contemporary, and  engaging hypothetical problems, the Seventh 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. It is the only major casebook on the market  written by co-authors who together have received more than a dozen  awards for excellence in teaching.

New to the Seventh Edition: 

• Shorter notes and materials after principal cases
• Updated  cases and materials on personal and subject matter jurisdiction,  plausibility pleading, affirmative defenses, the new proportionality  requirement in discovery, and more
• Revised and expanded treatment of arbitration and ADR
• Revised and expanded treatment of MDL
• Revised and streamlined treatment of class action doctrine
• Revised and streamlined treatment of preclusion

Professors and students will benefit from:

• Lightly-edited cases paired with thoughtful notes and questions.
• Concise examination of scholarship and empirical data bearing on various procedural rules
• Close  attention to the underlying social and economic contexts in which the  rules function with emphasis on the consequences for vulnerable  populations
• Meaningful  discussion of oft-marginalized topics, including: Alternative Dispute  Resolution, Discovery (including e-discovery), Aggregate Litigation,  Remedies, Adversary Ethics, and Trial Practice.
• Hypothetical  problems presented in each chapter and revisited in later chapters to  support in-class exercises and awareness of how phases of litigation  influence each other.
• A casebook designed to create an inclusive classroom experience