Benjamin C. Zipursky

Research and Teaching Areas

Torts; Product Liability; Jurisprudence; Professional Responsibility; Defamation and Privacy

Bio

Benjamin C. Zipursky is Professor of Law at Fordham Law School, where he holds the James H. Quinn ’49 Chair in Legal Ethics and has twice served as Associate Dean (2001-03; 2010-13). He has taught as a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School, and Vanderbilt Law School. Professor Zipursky is a leading scholar in torts, jurisprudence, and legal ethics, and has published more than sixty articles and chapters on subjects ranging from punitive damages and conflicts of interest in mass tort litigation to the varieties of pragmatism within legal philosophy. He has lectured extensively in the United States and abroad and is the co-author of a leading casebook, TORTS: RESPONSIBILITY AND REDRESS (3d ed. 2012) (with J. Goldberg & A. Sebok) and THE OXFORD INTRODUCTIONS TO LAW: TORTS (2010) (with J. Goldberg).

Selected Publications

TORT LAW: RESPONSIBILITIES & REDRESS (Aspen 2016) (4th ed.) (with J. Goldberg & A. Sebok)

THE OXFORD INTRODUCTIONS TO U.S. LAW: TORTS (2010) (with J. Goldberg)

TORT LAW: RESPONSIBILITIES & REDRESS (Aspen 2008) (2d ed.) (with J. Goldberg & A. Sebok)

Reasonableness in and out of Negligence Law, 163 U. PA. L. REV. 2131 (2015)
http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/faculty_scholarship/625/

The Fraud-on-the-Market Tort, 66 VAND. L. REV. 1755 (2013) (with J. Goldberg)
http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/faculty_scholarship/644/

The Inner Morality of Private Law, 58 AM. J. OF JURIS. 27 (2013)
http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/faculty_scholarship/601/

Civil Recourse Defended: A Reply to Posner, Calabresi, Rustad, Chamallas, and
Robinette, 88 IND. L. REV. 569 (2013) (with J. Goldberg)
http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/faculty_scholarship/628/

Palsgraf, Punitive Damages, and Preemption, 125 HARV. L. REV. 1757 (2012)
http://harvardlawreview.org/2012/05/palsgraf-punitive-damages-and-preemption/

Consent v. Closure 96 CORNELL L. REV. 265 (2011) (with H. Erichson
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1560035

The Easy Case for Products Liability: A Response to Polinsky & Shavell, 123 HARV. L. REV. 1919 (2010) (with J. Goldberg)
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1577653

Integrity and the Incongruities of Justice: A Review of DANIEL MARKOVITS, A MODERN LEGAL ETHICS: ADVERSARY ADVOCACY IN A DEMOCRATIC AGE, 119 YALE L. J. 1948 (2010) Tort as Wrongs, 88 TEXAS L. REV. 917 (2010)(with J. Goldberg)
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1600808

Tort as Wrongs, 88 TEXAS L. REV. 917 (2010)(with J. Goldberg)
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1576644

Practical Perfectionism versus Practical Positivism: The Hart/Fuller Debate at Fifty, 83 N.Y.U. L. REV. 1170 (2008)
http://www.nyulawreview.org/issues/volume-83-number-4/practical-positivism-versus-practical-perfectionism-hart-fuller-debate

Sleight of Hand, 48 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1999 (2007)
http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1203&context=wmlr

A Theory of Punitive Damages, 84 TEX. L. REV. 105 (2005)
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=705281

Civil Recourse, Not Corrective Justice, 91 GEORGETOWN L. J. 695 (2003)
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2076340

Pragmatic Conceptualism, 6 LEGAL THEORY 457 (2000)
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=74171&fileId=S1352325200064053

The Moral of MacPherson (with J. Goldberg), 146 U. PA. L. REV. 1733 (1998)

Rights, Wrongs, and Recourse in the Law of Torts, 51 VAND. L. REV. 1 (1998)

School of Law

Benjamin C. Zipursky

James H. Quinn '49 Chair in Legal Ethics; Professor of Law

Research and Teaching Areas

Bio

Selected Publications