LLM Remedies

Recognizing a right tells us very little about how its violation might best be remedied by a court. A single wrong might conceivably be redressed in many ways; by compensatory damages, punitive damages, preventive and reparative injunctions, restitution, declaratory judgment, specific performance, or some combination. The law of remedies concerns the choice among these alternative means for restoring an injured party to her rightful position, without unduly harming others in the effort. This body of law displays with particular clarity, and so will be studied as to reveal, both the potentialities and the limits of the legal imagination in redressing complex wrongs to individuals and social groups. Cases will be drawn from tort, contract, and civil rights law.