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Pleading And Access To Civil Procedure: Historical And Comparative Reflections On Iqbal, A Day In Court And A Decision According To Law, James Maxeiner
Pleading And Access To Civil Procedure: Historical And Comparative Reflections On Iqbal, A Day In Court And A Decision According To Law, James Maxeiner
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The Iqbal decision confirms the breakdown of contemporary American civil procedure. We know what civil procedure should do, and we know that our civil procedure is not doing it. Civil procedure should facilitate determining rights according to law. It should help courts and parties apply law to facts accurately, fairly, expeditiously and efficiently. This article reflects on three historic American system failures and reports a foreign success story.
Pleadings can help courts do what we know courts should do: decide case on the merits, accurately, fairly, expeditiously and efficiently. Pleadings facilitate a day in court when focused on deciding according …
Civil Procedure Reform In Switzerland And The Role Of Legal Transplants, Samuel P. Baumgartner
Civil Procedure Reform In Switzerland And The Role Of Legal Transplants, Samuel P. Baumgartner
Akron Law Faculty Publications
On January 1, 2011, Swiss courts will begin operating under a unified federal code of civil procedure for the first time in the country’s history. This code has been exceedingly long in the making. In this chapter, I use the new code and its history to engage the editors’ claim that the old categories of common law and civil law procedure are crumbling, thus making differences among countries within the common law or civil law world more important than differences across the divide.
First, the new Swiss code of civil procedure includes a number of features that may look like …
Civil Procedure Reform In Switzerland And The Role Of Legal Transplants, Samuel P. Baumgartner
Civil Procedure Reform In Switzerland And The Role Of Legal Transplants, Samuel P. Baumgartner
Samuel P. Baumgartner
On January 1, 2011, Swiss courts will begin operating under a unified federal code of civil procedure for the first time in the country’s history. This code has been exceedingly long in the making. In this chapter, I use the new code and its history to engage the editors’ claim that the old categories of common law and civil law procedure are crumbling, thus making differences among countries within the common law or civil law world more important than differences across the divide.
First, the new Swiss code of civil procedure includes a number of features that may look like …