Civil Procedure in a Nutshell

by Arthur Miller, Arthur Miller, Adam Steinman

Rules of civil procedure govern everything that happens outside of criminal proceedings. This Nutshell provides a road map to navigating civil procedure rules and helps build a foundation for understanding the overall picture. Topics discussed include: jurisdiction, venue, and other court-selection issues; pleading, discovery, summary judgment, and other pretrial matters; adjudication, judgments, and appeals; multi-party/multi-claim proceedings, including class actions and multidistrict litigation; plus standing, the Erie doctrine, arbitration, and other important procedural issues. The new edition covers all the subjects dealt with in today's civil procedure courses, whether four or five or six hours in length.

Genres: Law, Legal, Nonfiction

369 pages, Paperback

First published February 5, 2013

About the author

Works of American playwright Arthur Asher Miller include Death of a Salesman (1949), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, and The Crucible (1953).


This essayist, a prominent figure in literature and cinema for over 61 years, composed a wide variety, such as celebrated A View from the Bridge and All My Sons , still studied and performed worldwide. Miller often in the public eye most famously refused to give evidence to the un-American activities committee of the House of Representatives, received award for drama, and married Marilyn Monroe. People at the time considered the greatest Miller.

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Reviews

[Mohammed Alshamsi]

This book tells it all, it’s like a professor talking to you. I now understand the law much better. Before you study the American Law, you have to read this book.

[Alex Timberman]

Every area of the law is interesting in its own way. American civil procedure is unique for his rules of discovery, adversarial nature, and federalism (state and federal law).

Even though the actual Federal Rule of Civil Procedure are fairly short, the application of the laws to a set of facts can easily be complicated. For example - what should be the citizenship of a corporation, for jurisdiction purposes, HQ or place of registration? Actually, Supreme Court has recently decided in 2010, 2011? that it is the HQ or nerve center, but these debates have been going on for some time now.

It's interesting to see how little has changed in the law from the 1970s to now, at least in certain areas of the law like civil procedure and contracts.