Book Review:
Richard D. Freer, Gladly Wold He Lerne, and Gladly Teche (reviewing Charles Alan Wright’s Law of Federal Courts (1994)), 73 TEXAS L. REV. 957 (1995).
 

Abstract:
In his review of the fifth edition of Professor Charles Alan Wright’s Law of Federal Courts, Professor Freer rhapsodizes that the hornbook is surprisingly multi-talented; it is an excellent primer for students and a tool for judges and practitioners, in both the areas of federal courts and civil procedure. Freer attributes the work’s excellence to its structure, which is synthetic, not reportorial, meaning that it focuses more on why the law is rather than what it is. These virtues, which Freer notes made the earlier volumes of the book famous, are furthered in the fifth edition, which underwent a line by line and footnote by footnote revision. Sealing the quality of the work is its accessibility. Freer avers that Wright makes even the thorniest issues of the law of federal courts readable, and frequently enjoyable.