Introduction to the United States Code of Civil Procedure

Author: Jeffrey C. Hazelett & Michel Tarucy
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Publish Date: 1998-09-01
Features: The American legal system is a topic of widespread interest. The United States is one of the world's most developed industrial nations and also one of the largest democratic political countries in the world. The American political system has distinctive legal characteristics, and the judiciary plays a very important role in shaping public policy and defining private relationships. The primary mechanism through which this role is realized is through civil litigation conducted in ordinary courts. In this book, we will focus on the unique aspects of the American civil litigation process. We will also compare the American civil litigation process with the civil law system procedures implemented in Europe, Latin America, and Japan. We hope that this comparison will avoid idealizing or denigrating the American civil litigation process by comparing it with unrealistic perfect judicial systems.