Rightless Remedies

Stephen A. Smith, Rights-Threats, Wrongs and Injustices: The Common Law Causes of Action, 27 N.Z.U.L. Rev. 1033 (2017), available at SSRN.

Jack Preis

It is a familiar quip that a right without a remedy is no right at all. A recent article by Stephen A. Smith shows, however, that there is such a thing as a remedy with no right—something I might call a “rightless remedy.” In Rights-Threats, Wrongs and Injustices: The Common Law Causes of Action, Smith explicates a category […]