num_pages: 240
description: This clear and direct book by two distinguished professors of law describes and analyzes civil litigation in the United States. Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., and Michele Taruffo discuss specific details and broader themes of American civil litigation, explaining (without legalese) jury trial, the adversary system, the power of courts to make law as well as to "declare" it, and the role of civil justice in government and in the resolution of controversial social issues.
language: English
title: American Civil Procedure: An Introduction
titlecomplete: American Civil Procedure: An Introduction (Yale Contemporary Law Series)
genres: Law
ratings_count: 5
series: Yale Contemporary Law Series
publisher: Yale University Press