John C.P. Goldberg
Research Interests
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 C.P. Goldberg is the Associate Dean for Research at Vanderbilt University. Professor Goldberg joined the faculty of Vanderbilt 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, Dean 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, Dean Goldberg has won the Hall-Hartman teaching award in four different subjects.
Representative Publications
Books
Tort Law: Responsibilities and Redress (Aspen Publishers, 2004) (with A. Sebok & B. Zipursky)
Articles
"Tort Law and Moral Luck," 92 Cornell L. Review (forthcoming 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)
View Professor Goldberg's SSRN page.
Anthony J. Sebok
Education
B.A., Cornell University
M.Phil., Oxford University
J.D., Yale Law School
Ph.D., Princeton University
Courses
Torts, Remedies, Jurisprudence, Torts: Advanced Problems
Biography
Anthony J. Sebok is the Centennial Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research at Brooklyn Law School. Professor Sebok specializes in tort law and legal philosophy. His current scholarship has been focused in the area of punitive damages and the role that our liability system plays in resolving political disputes. He has authored numerous articles about mass restitution litigation, including those involving the tobacco and handgun lawsuits and slavery reparations. He has also written extensively on the differences between European and American tort systems. His scholarship was recognized in 1999 by the American Academy of Berlin and he was awarded a Berlin Prize Fellowship. Professor Sebok is the author of Legal Positivism in American Jurisprudence (1998), numerous articles and essays on jurisprudence, as well as the co-editor of the Philosophy of Law: A Collection of Essays. He has lectured widely on tort law and he is frequently quoted by the national media on timely legal issues. Professor Sebok is a regular columnist for Findlaw, a popular legal web site. He holds a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University, and will return to Princeton as a 2005-06 Fellow in the Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA). He was Law Clerk to Chief Judge Edward N. Cahn of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania before joining the faculty in 1992.
Read Professor Sebok's most recent Findlaw columns.
Benjamin C. Zipursky
Education
B.A., Swarthmore, 1982
M.A., 1985, Ph.D., 1987, University of Pittsburgh
J.D., New York University, 1991, magna cum laude Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (2001-2003)
Principal subjects
Torts, Defamation and Privacy, Jurisprudence, and Products Liability
Professional History
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh, 1994-95
Litigation Associate, Arnold & Porter (New York City), 1992-94
Law Clerk, Hon. Kimba M. Wood, United States District Court of the Southern District of New York, 1991-92