Vanderbilt University Law School
John C.P. Goldberg
Professor of Law
Voice: (615) 343-6133
Fax: (615) 322-6631
Email: john.goldberg@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Room 285
View curriculum vitae (.pdf)
Links
- SSRN Page
- Program in Constitutional Law & Theory
- Cecil D. Branstetter Litigation & Dispute Resolution Program
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 joined the faculty in 1995 after clerking for Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White and District Judge Jack B. Weinstein, and practicing at the firm of Hill & Barlow. Since then, he has published numerous works in torts, jurisprudence and legal history. He was named Associate Dean for Research in 2005. A Senior Editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of Tort Law, Professor Goldberg is also a member of the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Torts and Compensation Systems and serves on the Members Consultative Group for the Third Restatement of Torts. An acclaimed teacher, Professor Goldberg has won the Hall-Hartman teaching award in four different subjects. Professor Goldberg served as Vanderbilt's Associate Dean for Research from 2005-07.
Representative Publications
Books
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)
Presentations
- "Ten Half-Truths About Tort Law," Monsanto Lecture (endowed lecture series addressing topics in tort law) to be delivered at Valparaiso University School of Law March 29, 2007 (forthcoming, Valparaiso Law Review)
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