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'Add unjust enrichment to your courtroom skillset this Wednesday'

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That's the subject line of an ad that I got from a litigation consultant. The actual substance seems sensible—the advertised seminar would teach lawyers how to more effectively argue that the defendant had unjustly enriched himself, and should thus be forced to disgorge his ill-gotten gains. But the title …

Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and a Visiting Fellow (Senior Fellow starting May 2024) at the Hoover Institution (Stanford). Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any educational institution.