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743 - Remedies
Professor: Larry T. Garvin
Credits: 3
Semester: 2010 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
Means of Assessment: Exam
Course Description
Most people who consult a lawyer do so because they're worried about remedies -- either the remedies due them or the remedies they will have to provide. In spite of that, many substantive courses leave aside or skimp on remedies. In this course, we redress the imbalance, showing additionally how remedies can bring different areas of law together, from the traditional private law subjects to intellectual property, constitutional law, and civil rights. We will discuss such remedies as compensatory damages (including expectation, reliance, pain and suffering, emotional distress, presumed damages for defamation, incidental damages, consequential damages, liquidated damages, and related concepts), punitive damages in tort and elsewhere, specific performance, structural injunctions, preliminary injunctions, contempt, restitution, declaratory judgments, and the limits on remedies (e.g. mitigation, foreseeability, causation, laches, unclean hands). We will use a combination of cases, problems, and textual material to explore these individually and in combination. Grading will be primarily through a final exam.
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