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Teaching Remedies As Problem-Solving: Keeping It Real, Tracy A. Thomas
Teaching Remedies As Problem-Solving: Keeping It Real, Tracy A. Thomas
Tracy A. Thomas
I began teaching Remedies as a problem-solving course over a decade ago. I was then in my third year of teaching and found that the Remedies course just wasn’t clicking. The students, mostly third-years, were bored with the Socratic method and seemingly resistant to the demands of this important course. My teaching grew more cumbersome as I waded deeper into the mire of the complexities of a transsubstantive field. Remedies class felt like a slog in the mud for all of us. After just a few years with the course, I thought there had to be a better way. I …
Bailouts, Bonuses, And The Return Of Unjust Gain, Tracy A. Thomas
Bailouts, Bonuses, And The Return Of Unjust Gain, Tracy A. Thomas
Tracy A. Thomas
In March 2009, ailing insurance giant triggered a national outcry when it paid out $165 million in government bailout funds for employee bonus incentives. President Obama called the bonus payments an “outrage” and promised that his administration would “pursue every single legal avenue to block these bonuses and make the taxpayers whole.” One possible answer lies with the remedy of restitution. Restitution, based on unjust enrichment, provides a common law solution that just might work. Unjust enrichment is a remedy directed at the defendant that requires the wrongdoer to return all ill-gotten gains. The goal is to return the defendant …