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Cases Without Controversies: Uncontested Adjudication in Article III Courts - Hardcover

Pfander, James E.

 
9780197571408: Cases Without Controversies: Uncontested Adjudication in Article III Courts

Synopsis

This book offers a new account of the power of federal courts in the United States to hear and determine uncontested applications to assert or register a claim of right.

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About the Author

James Pfander, author of dozens of articles and books, has served as the Owen L. Coon Professor of Law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law for more than a decade. Pfander's scholarship explores the nature of federal judicial power, the law of government accountability in modern America, and the history of the federal judicial system. A member of the American Law Institute, Pfander recently concluded his work as reporter/consultant to the Federal-State Jurisdiction Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States. He has served as chair of both the federal courts and civil procedure sections of the Association of American Law Schools.

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