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
• captures American civil process at a crucial time of change in the early twenty-first century
• 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

Please visit the new companion website to learn more about this book.

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