An introduction and overview -- The structure of the legal profession -- Organization of the courts -- Initiating a law suit, defining the issues, gathering the evidence -- Resolving the case in the first instance court: the trial and analogous processes -- Short-cuts to judgment and provisional remedies -- Appeal -- Aggregation of parties, claims, and actions -- Finality and preclusion -- Enforcement of judgments -- Transnational litigation -- Harmonization of civil procedure: prospects and perils.
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