Tag: Punitive Damages

Through the Looking Glass: A Response to Professor Dan Markel’s Retributive Damages

Sheila B. Scheuerman - Charleston School of Law

This Editorial is a response to Dan Markel’s Legal Workshop Editorial: Retributive Damages as Intermediate Public Sanctions: A Synopsis.
In Retributive Damages: A Theory of Punitive Damages as Intermediate Sanction, Professor Markel intentionally situates his… Read More »

Retributive Damages as Intermediate Public Sanctions: A Synopsis

Dan Markel - Florida State University College of Law

Punitive damages’ complex and rapidly evolving nature has unsurprisingly attracted the attention of scholars from a variety of disciplines.  But what are punitive damages for?  In terms of normative answers, a number of scholars, such as Professors Polinsky and Shavell, think that extra-compensatory damages should focus on advancing the goal… Read More »