Course Details

Civil Procedure

Civil Procedure is the field of law that governs how civil lawsuits are brought and resolved in United States courts. Civil lawsuits are legal disputes between people or organizations that arise when one person or organization has harmed another. Examples of civil lawsuits are commercial disputes, personal injury cases, civil rights cases, and property rights cases. What makes Civil Procedure different from your other courses is that you will not be learning the law that governs breaches of contract or civil rights violations or personal injuries. Instead, you will learn the rules that govern how those disputes are resolved in American courts. Specifically, you will learn how a lawsuit begins, how the parties get important information from each other during the lawsuit, how judges manage and decide civil cases, and how U.S. courts get the power to decide civil cases in the first place. LLM Executive Program Only

Catalog Number: LITARB 891

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Course History

Summer 2024
Title: Civil Procedure
Faculty: Burns, Robert P. (courses | profile)
Section: 1     Credits: 2.5
Capacity: 30     Actual: 22