According to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "repeating his Louisiana progress, Benjamin made his reputation among his new peers by publication". In an early representation, he wrote a complex governing document for an insurance firm that other counsel had declined despite the substantial fee, due to the early deadline. After brief study, Benjamin wrote out the document, never making a correction or erasure. In 1868, Benjamin published "A Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property, With Reference to the American Decisions, to the French Code, and Civil Law". This work, known for short as "Benjamin on Sales", became a classic in both Britain and America, and launched his career as a barrister. It went through three editions prior to Benjamin's death in 1884; an eighth edition was published in 2010. Today "Benjamin's Sale of Goods" forms part of the "common law library" of key practitioner texts on English civil law.