Ryan Goodman (born in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a Harvard Law School professor. Goodman joined the faculty of Harvard Law School in 2002, and received tenure in 2006. Since 2006, he has been the Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and served as the Director of the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School.^[1] From 2002 to 2006, he was the J. Sinclair Armstrong Assistant Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School.

Goodman will join the faculty of the New York University School of Law in July 2009.^[2][3]

Solicitor General of the United States and former dean of the Harvard Law School, Elena Kagan called Goodman “the premier scholar of his generation in the fields of public international law, human rights law, and the law of armed conflict.”^[4]

Goodman received a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University.

Books:

• (Forthcoming 2010). Socializing States: Promoting Human Rights Through International Law (Oxford University Press) (with Derek Jinks).

• (Forthcoming 2010). International Humanitarian Law (Oxford University Press) (with Derek Jinks & Michael Schmitt).

• (Forthcoming 2010). Understanding Social Action, Promoting Human Rights (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2010) (with Derek Jinks & Andrew K. Woods).

• (2008). International Human Rights In Context 3d ed. (Oxford University Press) (with Philip Alston & Henry Steiner).

Articles:

• (Forthcoming 2009). Rationales for Detention: Security Threats and Intelligence Value, 85 INTERNATIONAL LAW STUDIES (Naval War College).

• (Forthcoming 2009). The Detention of Civilians in Armed Conflict, 103 American 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.