Private Law is Happening — John Goldberg

Post by: John Goldberg

Kudos to NPL blogger Daniel Markovits for assembling and hosting last week an excellent two-day conference at Yale Law School as the capstone to his Spring ’15 Private Law Seminar. (It is surely a good sign for the field that Harvard and Yale now both have established programs on private law.) 

Here was the line-up of panelists and readings, which encompassed an appropriately diverse yet overlapping set of topics and methodologies, and gave rise to excellent discussions.

1.   Law as a Means or as an End

• Hanoch Dagan (Tel Aviv) & Avihay Dorfman (Tel Aviv), The Justice of Private Law
• John Goldberg (Harvard) & Benjamin Zipursky (Fordham), Torts as Wrongs                     
• Bertram Lomfeld (Free University Berlin), Contract as Deliberation                                          

2.   Motivations

• Henry Smith (Harvard), Equity as Second-Order Law: The Problem of Opportunism
• Rebecca Stone (UCLA), The Varieties of the Internal Point of View                
• Daniel Viehoff (Sheffield), Reasons and Remedies                                                 

3.   Relations

• Lisa Bernstein (Chicago), Private Ordering, Social Capital, and Network Governance in Procurement Contracts: A Preliminary Exploration 
• Richard Brooks (Columbia), The Efficient Performance Hypothesis                     
• David Owens (Kings College), Wrong by Convention                                                   

4.   Private Ordering in Global Finance and Money

• Robert Hockett (Cornell), The Finance Franchise
• Roy Kreitner (Tel Aviv), The Jurisprudence of Global Money
• Annelise Riles (Cornell), Is the New Governance an Ideal Architecture for Global Financial Regulation?