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Nevada Law Journal

Volume 15, Issue 3 (2015) Symposium: Through A Glass Starkly: Civil Procedure Re-Assessed

Front Matter

Table of Contents, Editorial Board, Law School Faculty and Administration
University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law

Symposium

Symposium Introduction: Through A Glass Starkly: Civil Procedure Re-Assessed
Thomas O. Main and Jeffrey W. Stempel

Articles

Abrogating Magic: The Rules Enabling Act Process, Civil Rule 84, and the Forms
Brooke D. Coleman

The Forms Had a Function: Rule 84 and the Appendix of Forms as Guardians of the Liberal Ethos in Civil Procedure
A. Benjamin Spencer

How Atypical Cases Make Bad Rules: A Commentary on the Rulemaking Process
Suja A. Thomas and Dawson Price

Some Specific Concerns with the New General Jurisdiction
Richard D. Freer

Screening Out Unwanted Calls: The Hypocrisy of Standing "Doctrine"
Mark S. Brodin

The Irrepressible Myth of Burnham and Its Increasing Indefensibility After Goodyear and Daimler
Jeffrey W. Stempel

Manning the Courthouse Gates: Pleadings, Jurisdiction, and the Nation-State
Margaret Y.K. Woo

Amending Complaints to Sue Previously Misnamed or Unidentified Defendants After the Statute of Limitations Has Run: Questions Remaining from the Krupski Decision
Edward F. Sherman

Scott v. Harris and the Future of Summary Judgment
Tobias Barrington Wolff

Revisiting the Integration of Law and Fact in Contemporary Federal Civil Litigation
Elizabeth M. Schneider

The Triumph of Equity Revisited: The Stages of Equitable Discretion
Doug Rendleman

Reflections of a Recovering Aggregationist
Linda S. Mullenix

The Death with Dignity Ballot Initiative: Narrative Tensions and Jewish Legalities
Bernard H. Mehlman and Jeremy S. Morrison

Judicial Rejection of Transsubstantivity: The FOIA Example
Margaret B. Kwoka

Finding the Civil Trial's Democratic Future After Its Demise
David Marcus

Federal Court Rulemaking and Litigation Reform: An Institutional Approach
Stephen B. Burbank and Sean Farhang

Procedural Constants: How Delay Aversion Shapes Reform
Thomas O. Main

Contingency of Openness in Courts: Changing the Experiences and Logics of the Public's Role in Court-Based ADR
Judith Resnik

Essays

The Grand Poobah and Gorillas in our Midst: Enhancing Civil Justice in the Federal Courts—Swapping Discovery Procedures in the Federal Rules of Civil and Criminal Procedure and Other Reforms Like Trial by Agreement
Mark W. Bennett

Reflections
Steve Subrin