Ryan Goodman

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]

Ryan Goodman
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/

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]

Education

Goodman received his J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University, and a B.A. in government, political science, and philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin.^[3]

Legal career

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.^[5]

Publications

Books:

• (2013). Socializing States: Promoting Human Rights Through International Law (Oxford University Press) (with Derek Jinks).
• (2011). Human Rights, State Compliance, and Social Change: Assessing National Human Rights Institutions (Cambridge University Press, 2011) (ed. with Thomas Pegram).
• (2012). Understanding Social Action, Promoting Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2012) (with Derek Jinks & Andrew K. Woods).
• (2007). International Human Rights In Context 3d ed. (Oxford University Press) (with Philip Alston & Henry Steiner).

Articles:

• (2017). Many think this law is obsolete. It could actually be a big problem for Trump. (about the Logan Act)
• (2013). The Power to Kill or Capture Enemy Combatants, 24 European Journal of International Law.
• (2013). Social Mechanisms to Promote International Human Rights: Complementary or Contradictory?, in From Commitment to Compliance: the Persistent Power of Human Rights (Thomas Risse, Stephen C. Ropp, and Kathryn Sikkink, eds.) (Cambridge University Press) (with Derek Jinks).
• (2012). Psychic Numbing and Mass Atrocity in The Behavioral Foundations of Policy (Eldar Shafir, ed) (Princeton University Press) (with Derek Jinks, Paul Slovic, Andrew K. Woods, and David Zionts).
• (2012). Asylum and the Concealment of Sexual Orientation: Where Not to Draw the Line, 44 NYU Journal of International Law 407.
• (2009). Acculturation and International Human Rights Law: Toward a More Complete Theoretical Model, 20 European Journal of International Law 443.
• (2009). Controlling the Recourse to War by Modifying Jus in Bello, 53 Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law.
• (2009). Rationales for Detention: Security Threats and Intelligence Value, 85 INTERNATIONAL LAW STUDIES (Naval War College).
• (2009). The Detention of Civilians in Armed Conflict, 48American Journal of International Law.
• (2008). Incomplete Internalization and Compliance with Human Rights Law, 19 European Journal of International Law 725 (Oxford University Press) (with Derek Jinks).
• (2006). Humanitarian Intervention and Pretexts for War, 100 American Journal of International Law 107.
• (2005). International Law and State Socialization: Conceptual, Empirical, and Normative Challenges, 54 Duke Law Journal 983 (with Derek Jinks)
• (2005). International Law, U.S. War Powers, and the Global War on Terror, 118 Harvard Law Review 2653 (with Derek Jinks).
• (2005). International Institutions and the Mechanisms of War, 99 American Journal of International Law 507.
• (2004). How to Influence States: Socialization and International Human Rights Law, 54 Duke Law Journal 621 (with Derek Jinks).
• (2004). The Difference Law Makes: Research Design, Institutional Design, and Human Rights, 98 American Society of International Law Proceedings 198.
• (2004). U.S. Civil Litigation and International Terrorism, in CIVIL LITIGATION AGAINST TERRORISM (with Jack Goldsmith).
• (2003). Toward an Institutional Theory of Sovereignty, 55 Stanford Law Review 1749 (with Derek Jinks).
• (2003). Measuring the Effects of Human Rights Treaties, 13 European Journal of International Law 171 (Oxford University Press) (with Derek Jinks).
• (2002). Human Rights Treaties, Invalid Reservations, and State Consent, 96 American Journal of International Law 531.
• (2001). Beyond the Enforcement Principle: Sodomy Laws, Social Norms, and Social Panoptics, 89 California Law Review 643.
• (2001). Norms and National Security: The WTO as a Catalyst for Inquiry, 2 Chicago Journal of International Law 101.
• (1997). Filartiga's Firm Footing: International Human Rights and Federal Common Law, 66 Fordham Law Review 463 (with Derek Jinks).
• (1997). Gender Blindness and the Hunter Doctrine, 105 Yale Law Journal 261.
• (1995). The Incorporation of International Human Rights Standards into Sexual Orientation Asylum Claims, 105 Yale Law Journal 255.

Newsletter:

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.^[6]