John C. P. Goldberg

John Carlo Paul Goldberg (born October 10, 1961) is an American legal scholar. He is the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School. Goldberg has served as the acting dean of Harvard Law School in place of John F. Manning since March 14, 2024.

Education
Goldberg received a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University in 1983. He then attended St Antony's College, Oxford, and obtained a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) in politics in 1985. In 1989, Goldberg received a Master of Arts (M.A.) from Princeton University in politics and then a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the New York University School of Law, where he was editor-in-chief of the New York University Law Review.

Goldberg clerked for Judge Jack B. Weinstein of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and Justice Byron White at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Academic career
Goldberg was a professor at the Vanderbilt University Law School and was appointed as its associate dean for research. He joined the faculty of Harvard Law School in 2008, serving as its deputy-dean from 2017 to 2022.

Goldberg is an elected member of the American Law Institute.