civil procedure

How I’m Learning to Stop Worrying and Love the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

We’ve finished the first two weeks of Civil Procedure. This is only two days of course, but we’re going by Ragazzo time which means we have three hours of class a night, each hour covering what would normally be the contents of a full class in the fulltime program, ergo, we cover the material for [...]


Hallelujah

Apparently the people who weren’t at orientation were sent the wrong assignment for the first day of class so we got a bit of a reprieve from Ragazzo. It was more than welcome. The syllabus we received has no dates, just the order in which we’ll read things with the rule of thumb that we’ll [...]


Preparing for the first day…

Our opening assignment for the first day of class was the introductory topic of Field’s Civil Procedure. I found the material to be pretty straightforward, but imagining myself trying to provide some basic explanations, the kind of things I would imagine come up in socratic method, it’s a little overwhelming to get a glimpse of [...]