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Inexcusable Wrongs, John C.P. Goldberg

Sibley Lecture Series

John Goldberg, Goldston Professor of Law at Harvard University, presented “Inexcusable Wrongs” as the University of Georgia School of Law’s 111th Sibley Lecturer on April 11 at 3:30 p.m. in the Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom of Hirsch Hall.

An expert in tort law, tort theory and political philosophy, Goldberg discussed how tort law has little patience for excuses while criminal law is more forgiving. He offered a unified account of many of tort law’s core features as well as a broadened understanding of what it means for law to identify conduct as wrongful and for law to set up schemes for …