Ryan Goodman | |
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| Goodman in 2018 | |
| Born | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Texas at Austin (BA) Yale University (PhD, JD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Legal scholar |
| Sub-discipline | International law |
| Institutions | New York University School of Law,Harvard Law School |
| Website | http://ryangoodman.us/ |
Ryan Goodman is an American legal scholar who is the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law at NYU School of Law and is the founding co-editor-in-chief of its website Just Security ,which focuses on U.S. national security law and policy. [1] Goodman joined the NYU faculty in 2009. [2]
Prior to moving to NYU,Goodman was the inaugural Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and Director of the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School. [3] [4] He joined the faculty of Harvard Law School in 2002 and received tenure at Harvard in 2006. [4]
Goodman received his B.A. in government,political science,and philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin in 1993. [5] He earned a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1999 and a Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University in 2001. [3]
Following law school,Goodman clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.[ citation needed ]
In a phase of his career prior to 2018,Goodman held the role of "special counsel to the general counsel" of the United States Department of Defense. [6]
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In April 2025,Goodman launched a newsletter on Substack that will provide free and paid subscribers with updates from a website similarly entitled, Just Security . The newsletter is described as a litigation tracker for busy readers and presents a graphic tool that will be updated to follow all of the litigation resulting from executive orders being issued in high volume by the current presidential administration. [7]