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Letters

Nov. 26, 2024

State constitutions and civil procedure deserve their day in class

Adding a state civil procedure course to the curriculum would aid lower-tier schools and larger firms and would provide opportunities for accomplishing objectives that time does not permit in the initial civil procedure course.

William Slomanson

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Thomas Jefferson School of Law

Email: bills@tjsl.edu

William Slomanson is also the author of California Procedure in a Nutshell (5th ed. 2014).


Erwin Chemerinsky, the renowned Constitutional Law Scholar, reasonably suggests that California law schools add a course on California Constitutional Law. See "