The Fifth Edition offers a rich blend of materials mixing textual coverage, problems and provocative cases designed to promote lively class discussion in Remedies. The authors have revised a great book that preserves the best of the former editions and adds revisions and updates, especially in the areas of Attorney Fees, Preliminary Injunctions, Structural Injunctions, Specific Performance, Equitable Defenses, and Restitution. This law school casebook focuses on the fundamental tools of judicial remedies -- injunctions, damages, and restitution. In addition to providing students with a solid grounding in these basics, the casebook also offers the professor choices about which additional areas to cover in depth. Those choices for instruction beyond the basic topics
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.
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.