Private Law

C. Alexander Evans & J. Mark Ramseyer, What Makes Private Law Transitions Succeed: Lessons from Japan and from Around the World, 33 J. Transnat’l L.

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).

Understanding Private Law: Essays in Honour of Stephen A. Smith (Evan Fox-Decent, John C.P. Goldberg & Lionel Smith eds., 2025).

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

John C.P. Goldberg & Benjamin C. Zipursky, The Place of Philosophy in Private Law Scholarship, in Methodology in Private Law Theory: Between New Private Law…

Benjamin C. Zipursky & John C.P. Goldberg, Getting the Law Right: An Essay in Honor of Aaron Twerski, 18 Brook. J. Corp., Fin. & Com.

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 L.

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 Foundations…

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

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

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 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).

Charles Donahue, Jr., Book Review, 47 Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis 182 (1979)(reviewing St. German’s Doctor and Student, T.F.T. Plucknett & John L. Barton eds., 1979).

Charles Donahue, Jr., The Emergence of the Crime-Tort Distinction in England, in Conflict in Medieval Europe: Changing Perspectives on Society and Culture 219 (Warren C.

Todd D. Rakoff, Contracts of Adhesion: An Essay in Reconstruction, in Perspectives on Contract Law (Randy E. Barnett ed., 1995).

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…

Oren Bar-Gill & Lucian A. Bebchuk, Consent and Exchange, 39 J. Legal Stud. 375 (2010).