Judging equity : the fusion of unclean hands in U.S. law / T. Leigh Anenson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anenson, T. Leigh, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clean hands doctrine (Law)--United States.

Clean hands doctrine (Law).

United States.

Physical Description:

xiv, 222 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

T. Leigh Anenson analyzes the scope of judicial authority and discretion to recognize the equitable doctrine of unclean hands as a bar to actions seeking damages in the United States. Bringing an American perspective to contentious conversation about law-equity fusion in other countries of the common law, Anenson provides a historical, doctrinal, and theoretical account of the integration, analyzes cases in the federal courts and across the fifty states, and places the issue of integration within a broader debate over the fusion of law and equity. Her analysis also includes descriptive and normative accounts of the equitable maxim of unclean hands. This groundbreaking work, which clarifies conflicting case law and advances the idea of a principled fusion of law and equity, should be read by anyone interested in the need for equity - its cultivation, preservation, and celebration.

Contents:

Introduction

Announcing the "clean hands" doctrine

Examining the cases

Interpreting the merger

Framing the fusion debate

Thinking procedurally

Conclusion.

Notes:

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Monash University, Australia, 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781107160477

1107160472

9781316613603

1316613607

OCLC:

1038491602