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John C.P. Goldberg

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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)

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