Part One. General considerations. Civil procedure analyzed -- Civil procedure synthesized -- Part Two. Litigating step-by-step. Preliminary considerations -- Pretrial -- Trial -- Judgment -- Appeal -- Part Three. Authority to adjudicate. Subject-matter jurisdiction -- Territorial authority to adjudicate -- Notice -- Procedural incidents of forum-authority doctrines -- Part Four. Complex litigation. Preliminary considerations -- Multi-claim litigation -- Multi-party litigation -- Part Five. Governing law. Choice of law -- Choice between state and federal law -- Part Six. Former adjudication. Preliminary considerations -- Claim preclusion -- Issue preclusion -- Nonordinary judgments -- Nonparty effects -- Nondomestic judgments.
