Martha L. Minow - Civil Procedure: Doctrine, Practice, and Context

CIVIL PROCEDURE

EDITORIAL ADVISORS

Rachel E. Barkow

Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy

Faculty Director, Center on the Administration of Criminal Law

New York University School of Law

Erwin Chemerinsky

Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law

University of California, Berkeley School of Law

Richard A. Epstein

Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law

New York University School of Law

Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow

The Hoover Institution

Senior Lecturer in Law

The University of Chicago

Ronald J. Gilson

Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business

Stanford University

Marc and Eva Stern Professor of Law and Business

Columbia Law School

James E. Krier

Earl Warren DeLano Professor of Law

The University of Michigan Law School

Tracey L. Meares

Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law

Director, The Justice Collaboratory

Yale Law School

Richard K. Neumann, Jr.

Alexander Bickel Professor of Law

Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University

Robert H. Sitkoff

John L. Gray Professor of Law

Harvard Law School

David Alan Sklansky

Stanley Morrison Professor of Law

Faculty Co-Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center

Stanford Law School

CIVIL PROCEDURE

Doctrine, Practice,
and Context

SIXTH EDITION

STEPHEN N. SUBRIN

Professor of Law

Northeastern University School of Law

MARTHA L. MINOW

Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law

Harvard University Law School

MARK S. BRODIN

Michael and Helen Lee Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Law

Boston College Law School

THOMAS O. MAIN

William S. Boyd Professor of Law

William S. Boyd School of Law

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

ALEXANDRA D. LAHAV

Ellen Ash Peters Professor of Law

University of Connecticut School of Law

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Subrin, Stephen, 1936 author. | Minow, Martha, 1954- author. | Brodin, Mark S., 1947 author. | Main, Thomas O., author. | Lahav, Alexandra D., author.

Title: Civil procedure : doctrine, practice, and context / Stephen N. Subrin, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law; Martha L. Minow, Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law, Harvard University Law School; Mark S. Brodin, Michael and Helen Lee Distinguished Scholar Professor of Law, Boston College Law School; Thomas O. Main, William S. Boyd Professor of Law, William S. Boyd School of Law University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Alexandra D. Lahav, Ellen Ash Peters Professor of Law University of Connecticut School of Law.

Description: Sixth edition. | Frederick, MD: Aspen Publishing, [2020] | Series: Aspen casebook series | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: Casebook intended for use in a first-year civil procedure courseProvided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019055392 | ISBN 9781543815603 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781543820911 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Civil procedureUnited States. | LCGFT: Casebooks (Law)

Classification: LCC KF8839 .C452 2020 | DDC 347.73/5dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019055392

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