John C. P. Goldberg is the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School. An expert in private law and legal and political philosophy, he joined the faculty in 2008, having previously been on the faculty of Vanderbilt Law School. He is co-author of Recognizing Wrongs (Harvard University Press 2020), as well as a leading Torts casebook and dozens of publications in law journals, philosophy journals, and edited collections. An Associate Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Fourth Restatement of Property, Goldberg also serves as an advisor to the Third Restatement of Torts. In addition, he is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Tort Law and Legal Theory, and in 2009 was Chair of the Torts and Compensation Systems Section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). For their contributions to legal philosophy and tort theory, respectively, he and his frequent co-author, Benjamin Zipursky, have received the 2024 Hart-Dworkin Award from the AALS Jurisprudence Section and the 2023 William L. Prosser Award from the AALS Torts and Compensation Systems Section. 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 Supreme Court 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.