John C.P. Goldberg

Eli Goldston Professor of Law

Biographical Statement

John Goldberg, an expert in tort law, tort theory, and political philosophy, joined the Law School faculty in 2008. From 1995 until then, he was a faculty member of Vanderbilt Law School, where he served as Associate Dean for Research (2006-08). He is co-author of The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Torts (2010) and Tort Law: Responsibilities and Redress (3d ed. 2012). He has also published dozens of articles and essays in scholarly journals. Goldberg has taught an unusually broad array of first-year and upper-level courses, and has received multiple teaching prizes. A member of the editorial board of Legal Theory and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Tort Law, he served in 2009 as Chair of the Torts and Compensation Systems 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 Justice Byron White. He earned his B.A. with high honors from the College of Social Studies, Wesleyan University. He also holds an M. Phil. in Politics from Oxford University and an M.A. in Politics from Princeton University. Before joining the Vanderbilt faculty, he briefly practiced law in Boston.

Research Interests

• Tort Law and Theory
• Common Law
• Political Theory
• Jurisprudence

Appointments

• Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School, 1995-2008
• Visiting Professor of Law, New York University School of Law, 2003
• Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, 2007
• Professor of Law, 2008
• Eli Goldston Professor of Law, 2012

Education

• Wesleyan University B.A. 1983
• Oxford University, St. Antony's College M. Phil. 1985, Politics
• Princeton University M.A. 1989, Politics
• New York University School of Law J.D. 1991

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Common Law
• Jurisprudence
• Political Theory
• Tort Law and Theory

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• Common Law
• Defamation
• Fraud
• Malpractice
• Mass Torts
• Personal Injury
• Preemption
• Privacy
• Products Liability
• Punitive Damages
• Tort Law
• Tort Reform

Other Information

2011-2012 Faculty Disclosures re: Related Outside Interests and Activities

Representative Publications

• Goldberg, John C.P. & Robert H. Sitkoff. "Torts and Estates: Remedying Wrongful Interference with Inheritance," 65 Stanford Law Review 335 (2013).
  Full text: WWW
  
• Goldberg, John C.P. & B. Zipursky. "Convergence and Contrast in Tort Scholarship: An Essay in Honor of Robert Rabin," 61 De Paul Law Review (2012).
  (annual Clifford Symposium)
  
• Goldberg, John C.P., Anthony Sebok & Benjamin C. Zipursky. Tort Law: Responsibilities and Redress (Aspen Publishers 3d ed. 2012).
  Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
  (2d ed. 2008, 1st ed. 2004)
  
• Bridgeman, C. & John C.P. Goldberg. "Do Promises Distinguish Contract from Tort?" 45 Suffolk University Law Review 873 (forthcoming 2012).
  Full text: WWW
  (symposium in honor of Charles Fried's Contract as Promise)
  
• Goldberg, John C.P. "Introduction: Pragmatism and Private Law," 125 Harvard Law Review 1640 (2012).
  Full text: WWW
  
• Goldberg, John C.P. "Tort Law at the Founding," 39 Florida State University Law Review 85 (2011).
  (civil recourse theory symposium)
  
• Goldberg, John C.P. & B. Zipursky. "Civil Recourse Revisited," 39 Florida State University Law Review 342 (2011).
  (civil recourse theory symposium)
  
• Goldberg, John C.P. "OPA and Economic Loss: A Reply to Professor Robertson," 28 Mississippi College Law Review 203 (2011).
  
• Goldberg, John C.P. & Benjamin Zipursky. "Torts as Wrongs," 88 Texas Law Review 917 (2010).
  Full text: WWW
  
• Goldberg, John C.P. "Liberal Responsibility: A Comment on Justice for Hedgehogs," 90 Boston University Law Review 677 (2010) (reviewing Ronald Dworkin, "Justice for Hedgehogs" ).
  Full text: WWW
  
• Goldberg, John C.P. & Benjamin C. Zipursky. The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Torts (Oxford University Press 2010).
  Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
  

Bibliography

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