Cases Without Controversies: Uncontested Adjudication in Article III Courts

by James E Pfander and James E. Pfander

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. Familiar to lawyers in civil law countries as forms of voluntary or non-contentious jurisdiction, these uncontested applications fit uneasily with the commitment to adversary legalism in the United States. Indeed, modern accounts of federal judicial power often urge that the language...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197571409
• ISBN13: 9780197571408
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"