Civil Procedure - University Casebook Author:Thomas D. Rowe, Jr., Suzanna Sherry, Jay H. Tidmarsh Professors choosing a civil procedure book face difficult dilemmas. The "breadth vs. depth" trade-off is particularly acute in this field, and the matter is complicated by the fact that civil procedure might be allocated as few as 3 or as many as 6 credits. This book aims to ease that dilemma by structuring the material so that it can be taught ... more »quickly but at a high level; the cases and notes are short but intellectually challenging. At just over 700 pages, most of the book can be covered in as few as 4 credit hours, but the materials are rich enough to expand discussion to 6 hours. For each individual topic, it is possible to use this book to cover the basics or to probe the issues in depth, depending on the time allocated. The casebook is accompanied by a Teacher's Manual that suggests not only strategies for teaching the materials, but also different approaches for different credit allocations and teacher preferences. The book also introduces students to the themes that run through civil procedure: efficiency and fairness, the advantages and disadvantages of the adversarial system, real-life litigation strategies, and issues of federalism and separation of powers inherent in the American judicial system. Most chapters begin by exploring these themes through excerpts from scholarship in the field, followed by notes and questions. The cases have been chosen to capture the students' interest as well as to teach the topics. The new second edition (2008) adds five new principal cases from the Supreme Court, incorporates the 2007 restyling of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and considers the effects of the Class Action Fairness Act. The new edition also includes several new lower-court cases.« less