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Civil Procedure (Fisch) - Sec 3

Fall 2024   LAW 500-003  

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Faculty
Jill E. Fisch

Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law; Co-Director, Institute for Law and Economics

jfisch@law.upenn.edu
Additional Information

Skills Training
None

Grading
80% Exam,
20% Other (20% of the final grade will be based on the completion of the on-line quizzes and the writing assignment.)

Exam
Essay,
Take Home,
Open-Book (Students will not be permitted to use ChatGPT.)

Satisfies Senior Writing Requirement

No

Location

Class meets in person.

Course Continuity
Students are encouraged to stay home if you are ill or experience flu-like symptoms. If you miss a class for any reason, it is still your responsibility to make up the work missed.

I offer the following to students who miss class due to illness:

- Class sessions are regularly recorded. I will make these recordings routinely available on the course site to everyone in the class.

Meeting Times/Location
MTW 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Gittis Hall 213

Category
First-Year

Credits
4.0

This course is devoted to a consideration of the basic problems of civil procedure. Pleading, discovery, multi-party actions, trial practice, and judgments are considered in terms of function and technique. The course is also designed to introduce the student to underlying problems such as jurisdiction, the choice of law in the federal system, and the role of courts as lawmaking institutions.

I run the class through a combination of lecture, Socratic questioning and discussion. Regular attendance and class participation are required. The course also incorporates assignments that are administered through Canvas; completion of the assignments counts for 20% of the final course grade.

Course Concentrations

Courts and the Judicial System Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of both substantive and procedural issues in the operation of our legal system; Perform legal analysis in the context of procedural issues and the judicial process; Communicate effectively on topics related to procedure and the judicial process; Demonstrate an understanding of how procedural issues and the judicial process affect all other area of our legal system.


Textbooks

"Civil Procedure: Theory and Practice" by Linda J. Silberman, Allan R. Stein, Tobias Barrington Wolff, Aaron Simowitz
Edition: sixth
Publisher: Aspen Pub
ISBN: 9781543838824
Required

"Federal Rules of Civil Procedure" by Any
Edition: 2024 or the most recent
Publisher: any
Required