Diane P. Wood
Senior Lecturer in Law
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773-702-2019
email: diane_wood@law.uchicago.edu

Current Year Courses

• 30221 1 Civil Procedure II
  Civil Procedure is offered in two parts. Part I meets in the Autumn Quarter and addresses the mechanics of civil litigation, with special reference to pleading, discovery, and trial, including the respective roles of judge and jury. Part II is offered in the Spring Quarter and focuses on the study of the power of particular courts to decide cases (subject-matter jurisdiction); jurisdiction of the courts over the person or things before them; the scope and effect of judgments; principles of finality of judgments; and the rules governing joinder of claims and parties. The student s grade is based on an examination given at the end of each quarter.
  Spring (3) 1L
  
  
• 49901 42 Independent Research
  Second- and third-year students may earn course credit by independent research under the supervision of a member of the faculty. Such projects are arranged by consultation between the student and the particular member of the faculty in whose field the proposed topic falls.
  Autumn (3)
  
  

Other courses taught include:

• Antitrust Law
• Civil Procedure
• Theories of International Jurisdiction