Law & Society Review, and the Journal of Legal Pluralism; and a member of the editorial boards of other journals in the law and society field in the United States, Europe, and Australia. He was a founding member of Critical Legal Studies and the UCLA Program in Public Interest Law and Policy.
Kevin E. Davis Kevin Davis comes to NYU School of Law for the 2003-04 academic year from the University of Toronto, where he is a tenured associate professor in the Faculty of Law. His areas of teaching and research include contracts, commercial law, law and development, and white-collar crime. Davis applies a law and economics methodology to each of these areas. He has, for instance, analyzed anti-bribery statutes and has found modest support for the counterintuitive proposition that states deter payment of bribes to developing nations primarily out of economic self-interest, rather than out of moral sentiments. Prior to joining the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 1996, he served as a law clerk to the late Justice John Sopinka, Supreme Court of Canada, and as an associate lawyer with Torys, a Toronto law firm. His publications include “Self-Interest and Altruism in the Deterrence of Transnational Bribery,” American Law and Economics Review (2002); “Ethnically Homogeneous Commercial Elites in Developing Countries,” Law and Policy in International Business (2001) (with M. Trebilcock and B. Heys); and “Legal Reforms and Development,” Third World Quarterly (2001) (with M. Trebilcock). Davis received his B.A. in economics from McGill University, his LL.B. from Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, and his LL.M. from Columbia University. On his upcoming year at the Law School, Davis said: “I am looking forward to spending the next year at a great law school in a great city.”
John C.P. Goldberg (’91) Recognized as a leading torts scholar, John Goldberg joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University Law School in 1995 after clerking for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White and U.S. District Court Judge Jack Weinstein, and practicing at the Boston firm of Hill & Barlow. A 1991 graduate of NYU School of Law, he will return this fall as a visiting professor. Goldberg described his analysis of torts: “Typically in a tort suit, an injury victim AU T U M N 2 0 03
seeks compensation from a person or business for having injured her or him. However, most modern tort scholars argue that the tort law’s significance does not reside in permitting individuals to seek compensation for having been mistreated. Rather, for them, tort cases are important because they present an occasion on which judges and juries can function as self-appointed regulatory agencies and criminal prosecutors.” Rejecting these accounts, Goldberg offers a theory that takes tort at facevalue, as a body of law that articulates, and empowers citizens to enforce against each other, basic civil obligations. Goldberg’s articles and essays on tort law and intellectual history have appeared in the Columbia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Stanford, Vanderbilt, and Virginia law reviews. He has also authored the chapter on torts for The Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies (P. Cane, M. Tushnet, eds., Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2003). He is currently working on several articles and co-authoring a casebook titled Torts: Responsibilities and Redress (with Anthony J. Sebok and Benjamin Zipursky (’91)). “It’s an honor to be invited to teach at NYU School of Law,” Goldberg said. “As a student, I was awe-struck by the professors. I am grateful to have the opportunity to join them as a visiting colleague.” He added: “Most of my scholarship derives from problems that I encountered, and methods I learned, at the Law School. In that sense, I’ve never really stopped being a student at NYU School of Law. I look forward to returning to the Law School and its classrooms this fall.” At Vanderbilt, Goldberg has been an innovative and popular teacher. In eight years of teaching, he has won a teaching award in three different first-year classes: civil procedure, contracts, and torts. This past year, he helped develop and organize a three-day conference for the Association of American Law Schools Torts Section, which took place in New York in June 2003. In the fall of 2000, he organized a landmark conference on the Third Restatement of Torts at Vanderbilt. Goldberg received his B.A. from Wesleyan University, his M. Phil in politics from St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, and his M.A. in politics from Princeton University. He lives in Nashville with his wife, Julie, and their two sons, Alex and Matthew.
Jack Rakove The W.R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies and professor of political science at Stanford University (where he has taught since 1980), Jack Rakove will visit NYU School of Law this fall. Before coming to Stanford, he taught at Colgate University from 1975 to 1980. He received his B.A. in history from Haverford College and his Ph.D. in history at Harvard University. “After visiting NYU School of Law for brief stints of two and three weeks in recent years, I am delighted finally to be able to teach two seminars as a visiting professor,” Rakove said. “I’ve always found the excitement of being at the Law School and in New York infectious, contagious, and highly stimulating.” At Stanford, Rakove teaches courses in early American history and the origins and interpretation of the Constitution. As the leading historian of the founding period in America, he has written four books: The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress (Alfred Knopf, 1979); James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic (revised edition, Addison, Wesley, Longman, 2001); Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Alfred Knopf, 1996), which won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in History; and Declaring Rights: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Books, 1997). Although Rakove is a historian, his work has been extraordinarily influential among legal scholars interested in the intentions and beliefs of the Founding Fathers. Rakove is also the editor of Interpreting the Constitution: The Debate Over Original Intent (Northeastern University Press, 1990); James Madison: Writings (Library of America, September 1999); and a collection of scholarly essays called The Unfinished Election of 2000 (Basic Books, 2001). In November 1998, he testified before the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives on the background and history of impeachment. He has served as a consultant and expert witness in several cases involving Indian land claims in New York state dating to the 1780s, as well as the recent litigation over the use of sampling procedures in the decennial federal census. He has also been involved with various media projects, T H E L AW S C H O O L
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