Civil Procedure
LAW 5301 (4 credits)
Professor Pedro A. Malavet
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Course Description
Four Credits. Analysis of a federal civil action from commencement to trial including consideration of the respective roles of judge and lawyers; subject-matter and personal jurisdiction, venue, pleading, motions, discovery and joinder of parties and of claims; trial; judgments; and post-trial motions; and choice of law in the federal courts.
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Given that I have not taught Civil Procedure since 2009, and that I am migrating my website to a new server, I have opted to take down most the old materials that I used to post here.
--Prof. Pedro A. Malavet, 15 April 2020
Course Description
Four Credits. Analysis of a federal civil action from commencement through trial including consideration of the respective roles of judge and lawyers; subject-matter and personal jurisdiction, venue, pleading, motions, discovery and joinder of parties and of claims; trial; judgments; and post-trial motions; and choice of law in the federal courts.
Usual Texts
Required
- MARCUS, REDISH AND SHERMAN’S CIVIL PROCEDURE: A MODERN APPROACH, [Current Edition].
- West’s Federal Rules of Civil Procedure— Educational Edition, [Current Edition ].
Highly Recommended
- Joseph W. Glannon, Civil Procedure: Examples
and Explanations (1992).
- Many of the graphics I use when teaching Civil Procedure were adapted from Prof. Glannon’s great book.
- Joseph W. Glannon, The Glannon Guide to Civil Procedure: Learning Through Multiple-Choice Questions and Analysis (Wolters Kluwer 2009). A more recent version of Prof. Glannon’s work.
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Practical Project Feedback Memoranda
- I have taken down the old materials.
Handouts
- I have taken down the old materials.