TY - BOOK ID - 14224677 TI - The Dynamism of Civil Procedure - Global Trends and Developments AU - Picker, Colin B. AU - Seidman, Guy. PY - 2016 SN - 3319219804 3319219812 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Law. KW - Law KW - Civil procedure. KW - Private international law. KW - Conflict of laws. KW - International law. KW - Comparative law. KW - Fundamentals of Law. KW - Civil Procedure Law. KW - Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law. KW - European Law. KW - Philosophy. KW - Comparative jurisprudence KW - Comparative legislation KW - Jurisprudence, Comparative KW - Law, Comparative KW - Legislation, Comparative KW - Civil procedure KW - Law and legislation KW - Procedure (Law) KW - Actions and defenses KW - Appellate procedure KW - Trial practice KW - Civil Law. KW - Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law . KW - Law, Civil KW - Private law KW - Roman law KW - Law—Philosophy. KW - Law—Europe. KW - Choice of law KW - Conflict of laws KW - Intermunicipal law KW - International law, Private KW - International private law KW - Private international law KW - Legal polycentricity KW - Acts, Legislative KW - Enactments, Legislative KW - Laws (Statutes) KW - Legislative acts KW - Legislative enactments KW - Jurisprudence KW - Legislation KW - Civil law KW - Procediment civil UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14224677 AB - This book shows the surprising dynamism of the field of civil procedure through its examination of a cross section of recent developments within civil procedure from around the world. It explores the field through specific approaches to its study, within specific legal systems, and within discrete sub-fields of civil procedure. The book reflects the latest research and conveys the dynamism and innovations of modern civil procedure - by field, method and system. The book’s introductory chapters lay the groundwork for researchers to appreciate the flux and change within the field. The concluding chapters bring the many different identified innovations and developments together to show the field's ability to adapt to modern circumstances, while retaining its coherence even across different legal systems, traditions, fields and analytic approaches.  Specifically, in this book the presence of dynamism is explored in the legal systems of the EU, France, the US, Brazil, Australia, the UK and China. So too that dynamism  is explored in the contributions’ analyses and discussions of the changes or need for change of specific aspects of civil procedure including litigation costs, class actions, derivative actions, pleadings, and res judicata. Furthermore, most of the individual contributions may be considered to be comparative analyses of their respective subjects and, when considered as a whole, the book presents the dynamism of civil procedure in comparative perspective. Those discrete and aggregated comparative analyses permit us to better understand the dynamism in civil procedure – for change in the abstract can be less visible and its significance and impact less evident. While similar conclusions may have been drawn through examinations in isolation, employing comparative analytic methods provided a richer analysis and any identified need for change is correspondingly advanced through comparative analysis. Furthermore, if that analysis leads to a conclusion that change is necessary then comparative law may provide pertinent examples for such change - as well as methodologies for successfully transplanting any such changes. In other words, as this book so well reflects, comparative law may itself usefully contribute to dynamism in civil procedure. This has long been a raison d'être of comparative law and, as clear from this book’s contributions, in this particular time and field of study we find that it is very likely to achieve its lofty promise. ER -