Synopses & Reviews
The highly respected authors combine their distinctive skills to create the ideal teaching tool:
- Stephen Subrin is nationally known for his scholarship in the field of civil litigation and procedure, and he is the senior author of Aspen's popular casebook Civil Procedure: Doctrine, Practice, and Context, Second Edition
- Margaret Woo is a leading teacher and scholar in comparative law, who brings her sociological, anthropological and legal expertise to the book. She is the co-editor of East Asian Law: Universal Norms and Local Culture (Routledge 2003).
This new text:
- explains American civil litigation and procedure and the social/historical/economic context out of which it evolved
- explores the major themes underlying American legal institutions and civil litigation
- highlights the interplay between legal rules, doctrine, practice, and culture
- covers all stages of civil litigation through the use of one hypothetical litigation
- provides data and results of empirical studies to dispel myths about American civil litigation
- presents the American legal system within a global context
- is accessible to a wide range of audiences, including American and foreign law students, lawyers, judges, undergraduates, and graduates who want to understand American civil litigation and law