Download or read book A Student's Guide to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure written by Steven Baicker-McKee and published by West Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Student's Guide provides a lucid, up-to-date explanation of all of the major topics that a student is likely to encounter in a typical first-year course in civil procedure. It contains thousands of cites to cases applying the Rules, and also covers areas of procedure such as jurisdiction, venue, the Erie doctrine, forum non conveniens and res judicata. All of the materials are designed to make it easy for students to find and use what they need.