Douglas Laycock of UVA Law School and Richard L. Hasen of University of California-Irvine have published the 5th edition of the leading casebook, Modern American Remedies: Cases and Materials, in regular and concise versions.
From the publisher:
Modern American Remedies: Cases and Materials, Fifth Edition is highly respected for its original and logical conceptual framework, comprehensive coverage, excellent case selection, and authoritative and well-written notes. The text achieves a balance of public and private law, and teaches and critiques the basics of economic analysis as applied to remedies issues.
New to the Fifth Edition:
- New co-author Richard L. Hasen, author of Remedies: Examples and Explanations, a problem-based study guide and secondary adoptable for the casebook
- Key legal developments through the Supreme Court’s June 2018 decisions, including
- litigation surrounding President Trump’s travel ban
- Updated material on cy pres settlements in anticipation of Frank v. Gaos, the Supreme Court case involving Google
- Recent case law regarding the Third Restatement’s approach to unjust enrichment
- New, updated, or expanded notes on current issues, such as
- The rise of nationwide injunctions in challenges to federal policy
- Disputes over the scope of qualified immunity rules for government officials, especially police officers
- Donald Trump, Stormy Daniels, and Michael Cohen’s business partner
- A new drafting assignment involving an injunction in a case of same-sex harassment in employment
- New principal cases:
- Commercial Real Estate Investment v. Comcast of Utah, on new approaches to liquidated damages
- Sunnyland Farms v. Central New Mexico Electric Coop, on proximate cause in tort and contract
- Brown v. Plata, on structural injunctions and reform of prisons
- Lord & Taylor v. White Flint, on specific performance of long term contracts
- Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Center, on implied rights of action and the federal equity power
- Bonina v. Sheppard, on measuring restitution from innocent defendants
- In re Hypnotic Taxi LLC, on the standards for pre-judgment attachments
- James v. National Financial, LLC, on unconscionability in consumer contracts
- Arizona Libertarian Party v. Reagan, on laches in election cases
Learn more or purchase the book here, or concise version here.