Author Description

The Eighth Edition offers a rich blend of materials mixing textual coverage, problems and provocative cases designed to promote lively class discussion in Remedies. The authors have revised a great book that preserves the best of the former editions and adds revisions and updates, especially in the areas of Specific Performance, Contempt, Preliminary and Permanent Injunctions, Contract Damages, Public Nuisance, and Punitive Damages. This law school casebook focuses on the fundamental tools of judicial remedies--injunctions, damages, and restitution. In addition to providing students with a solid grounding in these basics, the casebook also offers the professor choices about which additional areas to cover in depth. Those choices for instruction beyond the basic topics include: Specific Performance Equitable Defenses Contempt Preliminary and Permanent Injunctions Structural Injunctions Common law damages Adjustments and Limitations on Damages Enjoining Speech/Litigation/Crimes/Nuisances Consequences of Remedial Characterizations Emotional distress Economic loss doctrine