Vanderbilt University Law School
John C.P. Goldberg
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Visiting Professor of Law
Voice: (615) 343-6133
Fax: (615) 322-6631
Email: jgoldberg@law.harvard.edu
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Research Interest(s)
Tort law, private law, legal history, jurisprudence
Education
J.D. New York University
M.A. Princeton University
M. Phil. (Politics) Oxford University
B.A. Wesleyan University
Biography
John Goldberg is an expert in tort law, tort theory, and political philosophy. Before joining the faculty of Harvard Law School in 2008, he served on the faculty of Vanderbilt Law School, where he served as Associate Dean for Research (2006-08). Professor Goldberg is an author of a leading tort law casebook, Tort Law: Responsibilities and Redress, now in its second edition. He has also published more than 30 articles and essays. A member of the editorial board of Legal Theory and a senior editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of Tort Law, he is serving in 2009 as chair of the Torts Section of the Association of American Law Schools. After receiving his J.D. in 1991 from New York University School of Law, Goldberg clerked for Judge Jack Weinstein of the Eastern District of New York and for Supreme Court Justice Byron White and practiced at the firm of Hill & Barlow. As a legal scholar, he has published numerous works in torts, jurisprudence and legal history.
Representative Publications
Books
Torts: A Short Introduction, Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2010) (with Benjamin C. Zipursky)
Tort Law: Responsibilities and Redress (Aspen Press, 2004) (with A. Sebok & B. Zipursky)
Articles
"Tort Law and Moral Luck," 92 Cornell Law Review (2007) (with Benjamin Zipursky)
"Two Conceptions of Tort Damages: Fair v. Full Compensation," 55 DePaul Law Review 435 (2006)
"What Nobody Knows," 104 Michigan Law Review 1461 (2006)
"Accidents of the Great Society," 64 Maryland Law Review 364 (2005) (with Benjamin Zipursky)
"The Constitutional Status of Tort Law: Due Process and the Right to a Law for the Redress of Wrongs," 115 Yale Law Journal 527 (2005)
"Tort Law for Federalists (and the Rest of Us): Private Law in Disguise," 28 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 3 (2004) (essay)
"Twentieth-Century Tort Theory," 91 Georgetown Law Journal 514 (2003)
"Unrealized Torts," 88 Virginia Law Review 1625 (2002) (with Benjamin Zipursky)
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