Civil Procedure Model Problems and Outstanding Answers

by Dodson, Scott

• ISBN13: 9780195388206
• ISBN10: 0195388208
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Students deem Civil Procedure to be one of the hardest classes in law school for good reason. Doctrines from personal jurisdiction to Erie are convoluted and opaque, and the policies underlying the federal rules are difficult to grasp. The course is a hybrid of common law reasoning, rule and statutory analysis, and constitutional doctrine. InCivil Procedure: Model Problems and Outstanding Answers, Scott Dodson helps students demonstrate their knowledge of civil procedure in the structured and sophisticated manner that professors expect on law school exams. This book provides clear introductions to the major topics in civil procedure as well as the fact patterns and model answers most often found on Civil Procedure tests, followed by a comprehensive self-analysis section, giving students the opportunity to evaluate their own work. It prepares students by challenging them to use the law they learn in class while also explaining the best way to express the answer on law school exams.

Author Biography

Scott Dodson is an Associate Professor of Law at William and Mary Law School. Professor Dodson is a scholar in the areas of civil procedure and federal jurisdiction, and he has published articles in Stanford Law Review, Michigan Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and Northwestern University Law Review, among others. His writings have been cited four times by the U.S. Courts of Appeals, and he is a frequent commentator in various news media. Professor Dodson graduated cum laude from Duke Law School in 2000, where he was an editor of the Duke Law Journal. He then clerked for the Honorable Nicholas G. Garaufis in the Eastern District of New York and began several years of litigation practice for private law firms and the federal government before entering academia. He previously taught at the University of Arkansas School of Law and Duke University School of Law.

Stephen M. Sheppard, the series editor, is the William H. Enfield Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law.