Law of Federal Courts (2d Ed.)

Professor Charles A. Wright's second edition of Law of Federal Courts, one of the West Hornbooks is not exactly light reading. It probably will not make the best-seller list, at least in competition with some of the current, racy fare that list affords. Indeed, it is not even the kind of law book that one picks up and reads from cover to cover, so to speak. At the same time, Law of Federal Courts is a thoroughly realistic, well composed work of legal art which will fill any reviewer's bill.

With a broad brush stroke, Professor Wright, who was one of Time-Life's now famous possibilities for a United States Supreme Court appointment, explores both the abstract principles and the concrete foundations of the federal judicial and jurisdictional system and federal court procedure.