Includes bibliographical references and index.

The structure of federal jurisdiction -- The judicial role : the justiciability doctrines -- Congress's power to regulate jurisdiction -- The potential reach of federal jurisdiction -- Using the federal courts to regulate state government : the basic concepts -- Implied rights of action : "constitutional" and statutory -- The statutory federal-question jurisdiction -- Diversity and alienage jurisdiction -- Supplemental jurisdiction -- Removal -- The place of trial, the law applied, and choice of law in the federal trial courts -- Federal common law -- Aggregative procedure -- Expanding and restricting complex federal litigation -- Allocation of authority between life- tenured federal judges and other adjudicatiors, and between courts of exclusive and courts of concurrent jurisdiction -- Federal appellate jurisdiction : Courts of Appeals and the Supreme Court -- Interjurisdictional preclusion -- Federal Habeas Corpus for state prisoners -- The Military Commissions Act of 2006 and suspension of Habeas Corpus.