Fall 2025
Class meeting time: Mon and Wed 5:30-7:20 pm
Required Materials
(1) Joseph W. Glannon, Andrew M. Perlman, Peter Raven-Hansen, and Jennifer Reynolds, Civil Procedure: A Coursebook (5th ed. 2025), ISBN 9781543843781
Note: you can purchase a print copy, electronic copy, or both, but do not buy or use an earlier edition of the coursebook. Also students interested in the optional materials can save money by buying the books together with the coursebook in a bundle on Aspen's website (e.g., https://aspenpublishing.com/products/bundle-glannon5e-pp). Per the Aspen rep, students using their sandiego.edu email address can get an additional 15-20% discount when they buy their books through the Aspen Access program: https://aspenpublishing.com/aspenaccess/o/6093/ramsey/lwaa-510.
(2) other materials distributed to you via links on this website or USD's Canvas; and
(3) provisions in the following laws that I assign as reading:
Title 28 of the U.S. Code (28 U.S.C. §§ 1-5001)
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (Fed. R. Civ. P. 1-86)
California Code of Civil Procedure (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. §§ 1-2107)
Rules and Laws for Civil Actions (open-access PDF with these laws)
Optional Materials
(1) Joseph W. Glannon, Examples and Explanations for Civil Procedure (9th ed. 2023), ISBN 9781543839333 (print), 9798889067221 (digital), or 9798889067214 (both) - hypothetical questions and explanations of the answers – the USD Law Library has a subscription to this online study aid and you can access it here with your USD credentials: https://aspenlearninglibrary-com.sandiego.idm.oclc.org/product/examples-explanations-for-civil-procedure50195272
(2) Joseph W. Glannon, Glannon Guide to Civil Procedure: Learning Civil Procedure Through Multiple-Choice Questions and Analysis (5th ed. 2023), ISBN 9781543839272 (print) or 9798886140606 (digital)
(3) Joseph W. Glannon, Andrew M. Perlman, and Linda Sandstrom Simard, PracticePerfect Civil Procedure (2020), ISBN 9781543817317 - interactive study aid from Aspen Publishing with videos, illustrative examples, and practice questions
Reading Assignments - will be posted at least two weeks before classes begin