The bane of every first-year law student, at least in Civil Procedure, is Pennoyer v. Neff. This is because (1) it is usually studied very early in the semester; (2) is viewed as the first true ...

Steve Sachs has posted on SSRN a draft of his article, Pennoyer Was Right: Jurisdiction and General Law, which will be published in the Texas Law Review. Here’s the abstract: Pennoyer v. Neff has a ...

Should law-students have Internet access in class? We're torn on this one. On the one hand, we say yes: There probably is a crystal-clear explication of Pennoyer v. Neff just a mouse click away that ...

On the final day of my civil procedure course, Professor Brian Landsberg offered a piece of advice. At first blush, it seemingly had nothing to do with the myriad federal rules and landmark cases like ...