An introduction and overview -- The structure of the legal profession -- Organization of the courts -- Initiating a law suit, defining the issues, gathering the evidence -- Resolving the case in the first instance court : the trial and analogous processes -- Simplified procedures, "short cuts" to judgment, and provisional remedies -- Appeal -- Aggregation of parties, claims, and actions -- Finality and preclusion -- Enforcement of judgments -- Transnational litigation -- Harmonization