A Documentary Companion to A Civil Action (Revised Edition) (University Casebook)
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (642 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 158778422X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 798 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Allen King Scholar, American University, Washington College of Law . Professor of Law and A
From the Back Cover From the introductions to A Documentary Companion to A Civil Action "A Civil Action and A Documentary Companion taken together offerthe fullest opportunity to render your own judgment about the merits of the case itself and how well or poorly the civil justice system dealt with it." Jonathan Harr, author of A Civil Action "You have the benefit of Jonathan Harr's brilliant portrayal in A Civil Action of the human drama of this litigation. You can judge for yourself how effective they were in resolving that conflict." Jan Richard Schlictmann, attorney for the plaintiffs . You now have, thanks to the work of Professors Grossman and Vaughn, a unique opportunity to examine firsthand the legal implements we wielded
"Not for the casual reader" according to Scott Palmer. Pay attention to the descriptions above so that you'll know what you're getting. This book is intended for law students or other legal-minded professionals, or only the most die-hard and detail-oriented of laypeople. The word "documentary" in the title will disappoint you if the documentaries that usually interest you are on the History Channel. This book is primarily a compilation of actual court pleadings you know, those long, verbose, lawyer-written legal-brief-type arguments that have the party names at the top and usually begin with "comes now, Anne Andersen, Plaintiff, who alleges and would show this Court the following". Excellent Teaching Tool N. Hawker I have used this book very successfully to introduce business students to the realities of law. It's a particularly useful supplement for business law texts which tend to treat law as a set of rules to be memorized.
Cryovac, the toxic tort case portrayed in Jonathan Harr's bestseller, A Civil Action. Use the supplement in conjunction with Harr's book and any first-year civil procedure casebook or as the text for an advanced litigation class. The authors, who extensively interviewed the lawyers involved, provide notes, commentary, and analysis of, as well as thought-provoking questions about, the legal, tactical, and ethical issues.. Content is arranged topically to take students through an actual litigation process from start to finish, from setting the litigation to pretrial process and trial and post-trial motions. This documentary supplement contains official documents from Anderson v