The Yale Law Journal

John C.P. Goldberg

Article

The Constitutional Status of Tort Law: Due Process and the Right to a Law for the Redress of Wrongs

John C.P. Goldberg

115 Yale L.J. 524 (2005)

In our legal system, redressing private wrongs has tended to be the business of tort law, itself traditionally a branch of the common law. But do individuals have a "vested interest" in law that redresses wrongs? If so, do state and federal governments have a constitutional d…