Examples & Explanations for Remedies - Softcover

Hasen, Richard L

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798889066330

Publisher: Aspen Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

The Fifth Edition of Examples& Explanations: Remedies provides a bridge between law school and the real world.

A favorite classroom prep tool of successful students that is often recommended by professors, the Examples& Explanations (E&E) series provides an alternative perspective to help you understand your casebook and in-class lectures. Each E&E offers hypothetical questions complemented by detailed explanations that allow you to test your knowledge of the topics in your courses and compare your own analysis.

New to the Fifth Edition:

• Integration of recent Restatement Third, Torts: Remedies sections on compensatory damages and injunctions
• New critiques of the theory of efficient breach in contract
• Incorporation of recent Supreme Court authority on contempt, including the mental state required for civil contempt proceedings
• New analysis of the ability to obtain punitive damages for suits in equity and restitution
• Consideration of new Supreme Court statements about ripeness standards for declaratory judgments
• Discussion of garnishment orders regarding new methods of payment, such as Venmo or Paypal

Professors and students will benefit from:

• Updated materials on wrongful death, survival, and loss of consortium claims
• Expanded material on reasonable certainty, mitigation, offsetting benefits, and collateral sources in damages
• Updated discussion of ripeness and mootness issues, and the scope of injunctions
• The integration of the new Restatement and its impact on the field of Remedies
• Extensive practice questions on institutional reform litigation/structural injunctions

About this title

About the Author

Richard L. Hasen

Professor Richard L. Hasen is an internationally recognized expert in election law, writing as well in the areas of legislation and statutory interpretation, remedies, and torts. He is co-author of leading casebooks in election law and remedies. Hasen served in 2020 as a CNN Election Law Analyst and in 2022 serves as an NBC News/MSNBC Election Law Analyst. He directs UCLA Law's Safeguarding Democracy Project.

From 2001-2010, he served (with Dan Lowenstein) as founding co-editor of the quarterly peer-reviewed publication, Election Law Journal. He is the author of over 100 articles on election law issues, published in numerous journals including the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and Supreme Court Review. He was elected to The American Law Institute in 2009 and serves as Reporter (with Professor Douglas Laycock) on the ALI's law reform project: Restatement (Third) of Torts: Remedies. He also is an adviser on the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Concluding Provisions.

Professor Hasen was named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America by The National Law Journal in 2013, and one of the Top 100 Lawyers in California in 2005 and 2016 by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal.

His op-eds and commentaries have appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Politico, and Slate. Hasen also writes the often-quoted Election Law Blog, which the ABA Journal named to its "Blawg 100 Hall of Fame" in 2015. The Green Bag recognized his 2018 book, The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption, for exemplary legal writing, and his 2016 book, Plutocrats United, received a Scribes Book Award Honorable Mention. His most recent book, Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics--and How to Cure It, published in March 2022 by Yale University Press, was named one of the four best books on disinformation by the New York Times.

Professor Hasen holds a B.A. degree (with highest honors) from UC Berkeley, and a J.D., M.A., and Ph.D. (Political Science) from UCLA. After law school, Hasen clerked for the Honorable David R. Thompson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and then worked as a civil appellate lawyer at the Encino firm Horvitz and Levy.

From 1994-1997, Hasen taught at the Chicago-Kent College of Law and from 1998-2011 he taught at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, where he was named the William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law in 2005. From 2011-2022, Hasen was Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine and Co-Director of the Fair Elections and Free Speech Center. He was a visiting professor at UCLA Law twice before joining the faculty in 2022.

Edition details

• Publisher: Aspen Publishing
• Publication date: 2023
• ISBN 13: 9798889066330
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 510