Modern American Remedies by Douglas Laycock

Modern American Remedies by Douglas Laycock

This classroom-tested casebook provides a thorough and accessible examination of the overarching policy themes and principles behind remedies law. Modern American Remedies: Cases and Materials, Fourth Edition, doesn t hide the ball students are given the information they need to participate in classroom discussions that will broaden their understanding.

Among the features that make this text a success:

• A strong and logical organization based on remedies categories and concepts, with daily teaching units of roughly equal length, each exploring a central theme.
• A balanced presentation of public and private law.
• Explanations of basic law and economics that provide necessary background without dominating the primary themes of the book.
• Memorable cases and well written notes.
• An excellent Teacher s Manual that includes daily teaching units, suggested assignment sheets for a variety of courses from one hour to five hours, and suggestions for teaching the cases.

The carefully edited Fourth Edition features:

• New cases, including:
  
  o In re September 11th Litigation (S.D.N.Y. 2008) (on the measure of damages for the destruction of the World Trade Center)
  o In re Trans World Airlines (2d Cir. 1998) (on liquidated damages)
  o Oden v. Chemung County Industrial Development Agency (N.Y. 1995) (on modern statutes modifying the collateral source rule)
  o Arbino v. Johnson andamp; Johnson (Ohio 2007) (on the constitutionality of damage caps)
  o Whitlock v. Hilander Foods (Ill. App. 1999) (on undue hardship)
  o Almurbati v. Bush (D.D.C. 2005) (on the ripeness of perceived threats to transfer Guantanamo prisoners to countries where they
  would be tortured)
  o Pepsico v Redmond (7th Cir. 1995) (on prophylactic injunctions)
  o Horne v. Flores (U.S. 2009) (on modification of injunctions)
  o eBay v. MercExchange LLC (U.S. 2006) (on the prerequisites to an injunction, or on undue hardship, depending on the point of
  view)
  o Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council (U.S. 2008) (on preliminary injunctions)
  o Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker (U.S. 2008) (on the federal common law standard for measuring punitive damages)
  o Philip Morris USA v. Williams (U.S. 2007) (on the constitutional limits on punitive damages)
  o Van de Kamp v. Goldstein (U.S. 2009) (on prosecutorial immunity)
  o And more in later chapters

• Substantial reworking of Chapter 8, on restitution, in light of the Restatement (Third) of Restitution and Unjust EnrichmentA thorough updating of Notes throughout and of the Teacher s Manual
• Modern American Remedies: Cases and Materials, Fourth Edition, offers students a clear, logical approach to the study of Remedies while offering instructors a flexible approach to teaching it.

Douglas Laycock is the Yale Kamisar Collegiate Professor of Law at The University of Michigan. He is a prolific scholar on religious liberty, other constitutional law issues, and the law of remedies. He is also an experienced appellate litigator, including in the Supreme Court of the United States. He is a graduate of Michigan State University and of The University of Chicago Law School, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Council of the American Law Institute. He taught at The University of Chicago and The University of Texas at Austin. Anthony R. Picarello, Jr. is general counsel for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, D.C. He organized the conference documented in this volume over the course of 2005 while serving as Vice President and General Counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. He has lectured extensively on religious freedom law, and has published articles in the First Amendment Law Review and the George Mason Law Review. In January 2007, Anthony was named to The American Lawyer magazine's list of the top fifty litigators under age forty-five. Robin Fretwell Wilson is the Law Alumni Faculty Fellow and professor of law at Washington & Lee University, where her scholarship focuses on family law, children and violence, and healthcare law. She is the editor of three recent books, including Reconceiving the Family: Critical Reflections on the American Law Institute's Principle of the Law of Family Dissolution (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Her work on family law and healthcare law has appeared in the Cornell Law Review, the Emory Law Journal, the North Carolina Law Review, the San Diego Law Review, and the Washington & Lee Law Review.

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ISBN 13	9780735572010
ISBN 10	0735572011
Title	Modern American Remedies
Author	Douglas Laycock
Series	Aspen Casebook
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Aspen Publishers Inc.,U.S.
Year published	2010-08-05
Number of pages	1104
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