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  • Remedies

  • Course Description
    Remedies is a catch-all phrase for a course that defies precise description. The following description, taken from the beginning of Dobbs Hornbook, may be useful:

    The law of judicial remedies concerns itself with the nature and scope of the relief to be given a plaintiff once he has followed appropriate procedure in court and has established a substantive right. The law of remedies is thus sharply distinguished from the law of substance and procedure.

    Judicial remedies usually fall in one of the three major categories: (1) damages; (2) restitutionary remedies; and (3) coercive remedies. This course will touch on all these to some degree.