Private Law

Henry E. Smith & John C.P. Goldberg, Letter from America (Private Law in the UK Supreme Court), 6 UK Sup. Ct. Y.B. 169 (2014/2015).

Andrew S. Gold & Henry E. Smith, Sizing up Private Law, 70 U. Toronto L.J. 389 (2020).

Tyler R. Giannini, Political Legitimacy and Private Governance of Human Rights: Community-Business Social Contracts and Constitutional Moments, in Human Rights, Democracy, and Legitimacy in a…

Maureen E. Brady, Turning Neighbors into Nuisances, 134 Harv. L. Rev. 1609 (2021).

Laura Weinrib, From Public Interest to Private Rights: Free Speech, Liberal Individualism, and the Making of Modern Tort Law, 34 L. & Soc. Inquiry 187…

Ruth L. Okediji, Traditional Knowledge and Private Law, in The Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law (Andrew S. Gold, John C. P. Goldberg, Daniel…

Cass R. Sunstein, The Limits of Compensatory Justice, 33 Nomos: Compensatory Justice 281 (1991).

Cass R. Sunstein, Incommensurability and Valuation in Law, 92 Mich. L. Rev. 779 (1994).

Cass R. Sunstein, Standing and the Privatization of Public Law, 88 Colum. L. Rev. 1432 (1988).

Richard B. Stewart & Cass R. Sunstein, Public Programs and Private Rights, 95 Harv. L. Rev. 1195 (1982).

Cass R. Sunstein, Legal Interference with Private Preferences, 53 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1129 (1986).

Todd D. Rakoff, Enforcement of Employment Contracts and the Anti-Slavery Norm, in Human Rights in Private Law 283 (Daniel Friedmann & Daphne Barak-Erez eds., Hart…

John Morley & Robert Sitkoff, Trust Law: Private Ordering and the Branching of American Trust Law, in The Oxford Handbook of New Private Law (Andrew…

Robert H. Mnookin, The Public/Private Dichotomy: Political Disagreement and Academic Repudiation,130 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1429 (1982).

Oren Bar-Gill & Ariel Porat, Harm-Benefit Interactions, 16 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 86 (2014).

Morton J. Horwitz, The History of the Public/Private Distinction, 130 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1423 (1982).

Matthew Stephenson, Standing Doctrine and Anticorruption Litigation: A Survey, in Legal Remedies for Grand Corruption: The Role of Civil Society 38 (Ken Hurwitz & Richard…

Mary Ann Glendon, “Absolute” Rights: Property and Privacy, in The Essential Communitarian Reader (Amitai Etzioni ed., 1998).

Mark Tushnet, The Relationship Between Judicial Review of Legislation and the Interpretation of Non-Constitutional Law, with Reference to Third Party Effect, in The Constitution in…

Mark Tushnet, Book Review, 7 Jurisprudence 355 (2016)(reviewing Jean Thomas, Public Rights, Private Relations (2015)).

Laurence H. Tribe, Constitutional Calculus: Equal Justice or Economic Efficiency?, 98 Harv. L. Rev. 592 (1985).

Louis Kaplow, Optimal Design of Private Litigation, J. Pub. Econ., Nov. 2017, at 64.

Louis Kaplow, Private Versus Social Costs in Bringing Suit, 15 J. Legal Stud. 371 (1986).

Joseph W. Singer, Democratic Property: Things We Should not Have to Bargain For, in Research Handbook on Private Law Theory 220 (Hanoch Dagan & Benjamin…

Joseph W. Singer, Private Law Realism, 1 Critical Analysis L. 226 (2014)(reviewing Hanoch Dagan, Reconstructing American Legal Realism and Rethinking Private Law Theory (2013)).

John C. P. Goldberg & Benjamin C. Zipursky, Tort Theory, Private Attorneys General, and State Action: From Mass Torts to Texas S.B. 8, J. Tort…

John C.P. Goldberg, Torts, in The Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law (Andrew S. Gold, John C. P. Goldberg, Daniel B. Kelly, Emily Sherwin…

John C.P. Goldberg & Benjamin C. Zipursky, Vosburg v. Baxendale, in Civil Wrongs and Justice in Private Law 463 (Paul B. Miller & John Oberdiek…

John C. P. Goldberg, Benjamin Cardozo and the Death of the Common Law, 34 Touro L. Rev. 147 (2018).

John C. P. Goldberg & Benjamin C. Zipursky, From Riggs v. Palmer to Shelley v. Kraemer: The Continuing Significance of the Law-Equity Distinction, in Philosophical…

John C.P. Goldberg & Benjamin C. Zipursky, Hohfeldian Analysis and the Separation of Rights and Powers, in Wesley Hohfeld A Century Later: Edited Work, Select…

John C.P. Goldberg, Judging Reputation: Realism and Common Law in Justice White’s Defamation Jurisprudence, 74 U. Colo. L. Rev. 1471 (2003).

John C. Goldberg, Tort Law for Federalists (and the Rest of Us): Private Law in Disguise, 28 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 3 (2004).

John C. Goldberg, Introduction: Pragmatism and Private Law, 125 Harv. L. Rev. 1640 (2012).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Reluctant Litigant Revisited: Rationality and Disputes in Japan, 14 J. Japanese Stud. 111 (1988).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Second-Best Justice: The Virtues of Japanese Private Law (2015).

I. Glenn Cohen & Nicholas Bagley, Private Rights and the Public Interest in Drug and Medical Device Litigation, 180 JAMA Internal Med. 299 (2019).

Howell E. Jackson & Mark J. Roe., Public and Private Enforcement of Securities Laws: Resource-Based Evidence, 93 J. Fin. Econ. 207 (2009).

Henry E. Smith, The Ecology of the Common Law, 9 Brigham-Kanner Prop. Rts. J. 153 (2020).

Henry E. Smith, Systems Theory: Emergent Private Law, in The Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law (Andrew S. Gold, John C. P. Goldberg, Daniel…

Henry E. Smith, Property, Equity, and the Rule of Law, in Private Law and the Rule of Law 224 (Lisa Austin & Dennis Klimchuk eds.,…

Henry Smith, Fiduciary Law and Equity, in The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law 745 (Evan J. Criddle, Paul B. Miller & Robert H. Sitkoff eds.,…

Thomas W. Merrill & Henry E. Smith, The Architecture of Property, in Research Handbook on Private Law Theory (Hanoch Dagan & Benjamin Zipursky eds., 2020).

Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Equity (Irit Samet-Porat, Henry Smith & Dennis Klimchuk eds., 2020).

Henry E. Smith, Equitable Defences As Meta-Law, in Defences in Equity (Paul S. Davies, Simon Douglas & James Goudkamp eds., Hart 2018).

Andrew S. Gold & Henry E. Smith, Scaling Up Legal Relations, in Wesley Hohfeld A Century Later: Edited Work, Select Personal Papers, and Original Commentaries, (Shyamkrishna Balganesh,…

Henry E. Smith, Equity as Second-Order Law: The Problem of Opportunism (Jan. 15, 2015).