The Real Law Society Treatise Series
The Architecture of Civil Procedure
Pleadings, motions, and the path of a case.
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Bibliographic Record
Metadata.
- Series
- The Real Law Society Treatise Series
- Volume
- Vol. III
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publication Date
- MMXXVI
- Document Type
- Treatise
- Status
- Forthcoming
- Authors
- Faculty of the School of Civil Procedure
- ISBN
- 978-1-959000-03-1
- Permanent Identifier
- architecture-of-civil-procedure
- Subjects
- Civil procedure · Federal Rules · Pleadings
- Keywords
- Civil procedure, Federal Rules, Pleadings
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Abstract
On the scope of the work.
A treatise on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure read as the architecture of a civil case — from the complaint, through the dispositive motion, to the judgment and its review.
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Editorial Description
On the structure of the volume.
The work treats civil procedure as architecture: a sequence of pleadings and motions whose order is not incidental but constitutive. Each rule is read against the rule that precedes it and the rule that follows.
Part I addresses jurisdiction, venue, and the complaint. Part II takes up the answer, the Rule 12 motions, and the pleadings as they finally close. Part III treats discovery as a regime of disclosure and proportionality.
Part IV reads the summary-judgment standard against the trial that it is meant to avoid, and Part V follows the case through trial, judgment, and post-trial review.
State analogues are noted where they depart from the federal model. The work is intended for the litigator who reads the Rules as a working document and for the student who reads them as a structure.
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Series
The Real Law Society Treatise Series
Long-form doctrinal works. A treatise reads a body of law against its governing instruments and the cases that construe them.
Each treatise is read against the controlling statute, the regulation that implements it, and the leading appellate authority. Faculty review is required before publication.
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Related Schools
The faculty of the work.
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Related Library Divisions
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Preferred Citation
On citing this work.
Faculty of the School of Civil Procedure, The Architecture of Civil Procedure, Real Law Society Treatise Series Vol. III (1st ed. MMXXVI).
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Editorial Notes
On revision and review.
Prior editions of this work, where any, are retained in the institutional archive of the Society. Citations in the present edition have been verified against the controlling source as of the date of publication.
The work was reviewed by faculty of the relevant School before issue and is subject to revision as the governing instruments change. The Press accepts no instruction from outside the institution.
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Related Publications
Other volumes in the catalogue.
Companion works from the same series, and other publications of the Press on related subjects.
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