Private Law

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 William Singer & Seth Davis, Misappropriating Private Law for Public Law Questions, Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2026).

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)).

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

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, 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 Foundations…

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.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).

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).

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