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Introduction, Hanoch Dagan, Keith N. Hylton, Anthony J. Sebok
Introduction, Hanoch Dagan, Keith N. Hylton, Anthony J. Sebok
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Two Concepts Of Injustice In Restitution For Slavery, Anthony J. Sebok
Two Concepts Of Injustice In Restitution For Slavery, Anthony J. Sebok
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This article, which will appear in a symposium issued of the Boston University Law Review titled "The Jurisprudence of Slavery Reparations," criticizes attempts to secure legal redress for slavery through lawsuits based on unjust enrichment. The article has three parts. First, it compares the recent efforts to litigate the wrongs of caused by American slavery to other recent "mass restitution" lawsuits, namely the states' unjust enrichment suits against the tobacco industry and the suits against banks and corporations for unjust enrichment arising out of the Holocaust. Second, the article questions the fit between the structure of restitution and the interests …