Civil Litigation in Comparative Context
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Description
This book reflects a fortuitous collaboration among its authors. As a group, we teach and practice law on three different continents and have explored civil procedure from a comparative point of view in a number of venues over the past decades. When we realized—through our own teaching experience—that there was no accessible set of materials to support a course in comparative procedure, we decided to fill that gap through our collective effort. We have learned an enormous amount from each other during the ensuing period of discussion and correspondence, and we hope that the fruits of this collaboration resonate throughout the book. We designed the book in the hope of presenting materials that expose students to the many fascinating varieties of process one encounters in the world’s procedural systems. Professors who share our sense of the importance of the transnational study of law may wish to assign it as a supplement to a traditional casebook in an introductory procedure course. We also encourage proceduralists and comparatists to offer a comparative procedure course in the university in which they teach, wherever it may be located. We hope, too, that this book will serve as a brief but adequate guide to scholars, lawyers, and judges who are curious about “how others do it,” i.e., how nations other than their own meet the challenge of disputing in the modern world.
Publication Date
2007
Edition
1
Recommended Citation
Chase, Oscar G. and Hershkoff, Helen, "Civil Litigation in Comparative Context" (2007). Faculty Books & Edited Works. 952.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-books-edited-works/952
