James R. Maxeiner

Failures of American Civil Justice in International Perspective

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a comparative-critical introduction to civil justice systems in the United States, Germany, and Korea.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9781107009936
• ISBN-10: 1107009936
• Artikelnr.: 33402744

Autorenporträt

James R. Maxeiner is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore. Before entering academia he spent more than two decades in the international practice of law, first with the United States Department of Justice and then as Vice President and Associated General Counsel of Dun and Bradstreet, Inc. He is a former Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and guest researcher of the Max Planck Institutes in Hamburg, Freiburg and Munich. He is a member of the American Law Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Civil justice: an introduction
2. Legal method: thinking like a lawyer
3. Lawyers and legal systems: access to justice
4. The court: jurisdiction and applicable law
5. Pleading: the matter in controversy
6. Process: the right to be heard
7. Judgments, appeals and outcomes
8. Conclusion.