200S sec. 001 - Civil Procedure for LLMs (Summer 2026)
Instructor: Andrew David Bradt (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only | profile)
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Units: 3
Grading Designation: Graded
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Meeting:
MTuWThF 08:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Location: Law 132
From July 27, 2026
To August 07, 2026
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Enrolled: 0
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 35
As of: 02/04 08:02 AM
This class will cover the main ideas and concepts of American civil litigation, including: subject matter jurisdiction, personal jurisdiction, venue, pleading, discovery, summary judgment, jury trial, post-trial motions, and preclusion. This course is obviously a necessity for those who intend to litigate regularly, or even occasionally, in the United States. Attention is also paid to the main procedure topics that crop up on U.S. bar exams.
Andrew Bradt writes and teaches primarily in the areas of civil procedure, conflict of laws, and civil remedies. His current research focuses on the adaptation of procedural and choice-of-law systems to large-scale multijurisdictional litigation, with a particular interest in federal multidistrict litigation. In 2022, he was one of five recipients of the campuswide Distinguished Teaching Award. In 2019, he received Berkeley Law’s Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction. At Berkeley, Bradt is the faculty director of the Civil Justice Research Initiative, a think tank whose mission is to systematically identify and produce highly credible, unbiased research on critical issues concerning the civil justice system, including expanding access to justice.
Bradt’s scholarship has been published in numerous law journals and has been cited by both courts and prominent legal treatises. He is a co-author, with Geoffrey C. Hazard, William A. Fletcher, and Stephen McG. Bundy, of Pleading and Procedure—Cases and Materials (12th ed., Foundation Press, 2020), and, with Edward Sherman, Richard Marcus, and Howard Erichson, of Complex Litigation—Cases and Materials on Advanced Civil Procedure (7th ed., West Academic, 2021). In 2019, he was elected to the membership of the American Law Institute, and he serves on the Members Consultative Groups for the Restatement (Third), Conflict of Laws, and the Restatement (Third), Torts: Remedies.
Exam Notes: (TH) Take-home Final Exam
(Subject to change by faculty member only through the first two weeks of instruction)
Course Category: Bar Courses
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Books:
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- Pleading and Procedure, Cases and Materials
Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr, William A. Fletcher, Stephen M. Bundy, Andrew D. Bradt
Edition: 12th ed., 2020
Publisher: Foundation Press
ISBN: 9781642427622
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Price: $255.00
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