The course cleaves rather closely to the casebook as supplemented by hornbook readings and a few case study packets consisting of about 20 pages of cases, statutes, and memos to read in order to give advice on a specific hypothetical issue like are seen in practice. Remedies is a survey course. There is no casebook. Instead, use of the problem method of instruction facilitates exposure to and practical application of a wide variety of remedial rules, statutes, and doctrines. A typical class assignment requires students to read several sections in the hornbook and to solve two or three of the workbook problems which address matters covered in the hornbook readings.
Remedies is an excellent bar review course.
Remedial analysis therefore requires a threshold review and understanding of a host of substantive rules that pertain on a wide variety of civil law topics. Remedies is a practical course, as suggested by the maxim that a right without a remedy is not worth much. Lawyers must appreciate the remedial possibilities before they are adequately prepared to give their clients informed advice. Lawyers often report that the remedies course provided them with some of the most practical instruction they received in law school. The course permits students to review and increase their understanding of many remedial rules they may have encountered in other courses, such as rules governing the various measures of damages in contracts, property, sales, and torts.