Civil Procedure: Cases and Problems [Connected eBook with Study Center]

by Barbara Allen Babcock, Toni M Massaro, Norman W Spaulding

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Civil 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 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 Professors and students will benefit

Genres: Law, Nonfiction

1416 pages, Hardcover

First published February 27, 1997

Reviews

[Katherine · Rating 3 out of 5]

no I did not read every page of this book but it definitely counts towards my total for the year. actually a fairly decent casebook, I liked this case, but 3 stars for the general suffering of school

[tristin]

once again...no way i'm not counting this.

[Juliana · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not a gripping tale. Pretty sure this gave me an anxiety disorder, possibly IBS. Use it to press dried flowers or keep drafts of that novel you were working on until you decided to “make something of yourself” from blowing away, and quit law school while you’re ahead. Life is whimsical and here for your pleasure and wide-eyed curiosity, except for this book, which is made of a unique type of black matter, the gravitational pull of which only attracts joy. If you don’t understand its contents, you are normal. Congratulations. Rejoin society - it’s not too late.

[Mia]

kicked my butt

[erin]

is it plausible that i read this whole thing

[Alexis Burns · Rating 1 out of 5]

Maybe the firehouse in Fahrenheit 451 had a point

[michael prado · Rating 2 out of 5]

As much as I would like to rate this book -5 stars, it would be extremely difficult to argue that this 1,251 tome does not include a thought provoking, if not comprehensive coverage of U.S. civil procedure somewhere within its many pages. (Hence, the two stars.) After all, its primary author, the late Barbara Allen Babcock, was a longtime law professor at SLS and a well-recognized pioneer in the field of civil procedure. Her coverage of the topic is certainly to be of value to many people in the legal field. Unfortunately, however, first year students should not be counted among those people, and it is an absolute travesty that this book is marketed toward first-year civil procedure courses.

Each chapter begins with a brief hypothetical situation, which the authors press the reader to think about for themselves. They must certainly assume the reader is already familiar and well-versed in the underlying principles of the very "squishy" field of civil procedure for they opt not to go in depth into what the consensus black-letter law or Federal Rules of Civil Procedures actually are (in fact, many times the book just directs the reader to go and read the relevant FRCP for themselves, as opposed to say, including the Federal Rule in the chapter on it), opting instead to merely copy-paste pages upon pages of experts from various hallmark cases, omitting any cogent summary of the key legal points (thanks, Quimbee, for your service), and then append a numbered list of "Notes" including irrelevant sub-topics, marginally related experts from stuffy academic papers, and other "things to think about" all while the first-year law student, who knows naught of civil procedure, is thinking about how his life got to this point.

I'm sure if you are a Professor or aspiring LL.D you will find something of value in this book to help you plan your "groundbreaking" law review article or thesis that all but three people will read. Otherwise, if you are among the cohort of first-year law students that have been capitally sentenced with this case book, then you can either choose to spend long candle-lit evenings poring over the mysteries of this text like some Kabbalistic scholar, or perhaps more fruitfully spend your time learning the black letter law from Glannons, Quimbee, or another third party source (in all seriousness, do check out the Civ. Pro lecture series from Richard Freer) and pray to God that your Professor is a good lecturer.

[lore · Rating 2 out of 5]

to be fair, i feel like it is really hard to enjoy civ pro and find the material interesting & easy to understand so my low rating may literally just be because the class was so impossible for me to understand. i just found the writing super dense, dry, & difficult to understand. while i know that civ pro is a difficult class & that obviously the concepts will be hard to comprehend, it would be nice for such a core, first-year class to be explained in a more simple, accessible manner, especially given how intimidating civ pro can be as a class.

[Danny · Rating 3 out of 5]

First case: Sniadach v. Family Finance Corp. 08/25/22

Final case: Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Sunnen 11/29/22

[Irina Kebreau · Rating 2 out of 5]

This must be the slowest and the most tedious account of civil procedure. When I need to fall asleep, this book is always sure to deliver. I've been struggling with it for months! It is a good thing I am not reading for a class

[Steven · Rating 3 out of 5]

Civil Procedure is never fun, but I thought this book was fairly informative.

[Pete · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed all the civil rights cases. The whole line of process cases was a bit dumbfounding, though.

[Jeff Brenner · Rating 3 out of 5]

You really should read the fine print when you buy a cruise ticket. It's totally binding.