Remedies: Cases and Problems

by Elaine W. Shoben, William Murray Tabb

Law school casebook that focuses on damage remedies, explaining proof requirements, assessing arguments and offering traditional and optional ways of applying the rules. The book is geared to the strategic and tactical concerns of litigation. It demonstrates how to shape claims for tactical advantage. Discusses how courts handle remedial claims not in the public interest. Also discusses punitive damages, attorney fees, "tort reform" and damage caps, emotional distress damages, defamation, and interference with contract.

Genres: Law

1054 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1989

About the author

Elaine W. Shoben is Emerita Professor of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Professor Shoben earned her A.B. from Barnard College and her J.D. from the University of California Hastings College of the Law where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Hastings Law Journal and graduated Order of Coif. Professor Shoben was the Edward W. Cleary Professor of Law at the University of Illinois where she was the recipient of the Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching. She has authored books in the areas of remedies, employment, employment discrimination, and human resources, as well as published numerous articles.

Reviews

[Sean Camoni · Rating 3 out of 5]

Chapters start off with a really nice summary of the topic, that helps. But the cases were not very helpful, sometimes confusing. Lots of typos. The notes were sometimes helpful, sometimes not.