Civil Procedure 1
Fall term, Block F
Th 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, F 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Visiting Professor Jonathan Molot
4 classroom credits LAW-10100A Fall
This course examines the theory and practice of civil litigation, and the rules and statutes that govern the process by which substantive rights and duties are enforced in federal and state courts. Special attention is paid to the goals, values, costs, and tensions underlying an evolving adversarial system of adjudication. Topics include the proper reach of judicial authority, personal and subject matter jurisdiction, pleading, motions practice, pretrial discovery, the relationship of procedure to substantive law, trial by jury, post-trial procedure, appeals, and claim and issue preclusion.
Visiting Professor Molot will use Friedenthal, Miller, Sexton, and Hershtcoff, Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials (9th ed. 2005); its 2007 Supplement; and Glannon, Civil Procedure: Examples & Explanations (5th ed. 2006).