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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 347.735 EAN: 9780735512412 Edition: 5th Ed ISBN: 0735512418 Label: Aspen Publishers Manufacturer: Aspen Publishers Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 1050 Publication Date: 2000-01 Publisher: Aspen Publishers Studio: Aspen Publishers
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  - Get a hornbook to learn Civ Pro!This was the most confusing subject I've ever endured in my life. Unfortunately, this case book only added to it. There are cases after cases that are supposed to help you understand civil procedure, but there is little discussion of the law itself or about why the court decided the first case the way it did but did the polar opposite in a second, similar case. The questions that are provided after the cases are designed to help you analyze the law, but they are of little help when you have no foundation. Most people will probably need to consult at least one other source to understand civil procedure. If your law library provides a hornbook, make it your best friend. It is too late for me. Rating:  - Pretty much worthlessI actually liked my Civil Procedure class, but I hated doing the reading for it because it meant I'd have to use this book. The layout is thus: You read a case, and then you are presented with a series of questions that apparently you're expected to be able to answer on your own - in effect, you have to teach yourself Civil Procedure as you read. Interspersed with the meaningless (at least to the confused 1L reader) questions are little facts and tidbits related to Civil Procedure which aren't that important, but since they're the only information in the discussion section not presented in question form, you glom onto them in the hope that knowing said facts and tidbits will help to clarify Civil Procedure for you. All in all, easily one of the worst textbooks I've ever had. Rating:  - A good casebook on all points.This was my favorite casebook of my 1L classes. I have no complaints about it. Things I like: Plain English writing style, use of modern cases (Internet, etc.), extensive use of hypos as questions after cases, thought-provoking and difficult questions - many of them with answers or hints. If you can do these, you'll be prepared for whatever issues appear on exams. Rating: - Most Confusing Casebook that I used as a 1LYeazell's casebook gets off to a good start with a very well written intro, but after that it is obvious that the first chapter was the only chapter in the book that Yeazell put any effort into. As other reviewers have stated the cases have been edited quite poorly, the Erie doctrine section confuses, more than it helps and the overall flow of the textbook is poor. I ended up buying the Hornbook by West and that easily became the text that I used (along with the Fed Rules book) to understand Civ Pro. I fell sorry for you if you have to use this book. Rating: - SorryI feel sorry for you if you have to use this textbook. It was easily the worst textbook of my 1L year. Very little discussion is provided of the cases or the concepts in some instances, where a lot is written about things that are much less important. The notes at the end of the cases mixes important information you should know with often confusing problems and questions. Its these problems also alternate between hypos that use the same facts as the case you just read and hypos that have completely different fact patterns. |
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