Prof. Dr. Peter Goodrich
Legal scholar![](/wfimage/41d6e7ecdf3e0e714eb858eab9422eec.jpg)
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, Director
of the Program in Law and Humanities Founding Dean
of the Department of Law, Birkbeck College,
University of London
Curriculum vitae
- LL.B., 1975, University of Sheffield
- Ph.D., 1984, University of Edinburgh
- Director of the Program in Law and Humanities at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
- Managing editor of the journal Law and Literature
- Founding editor and member of the editorial board of the journal Law and Critique
- Founding dean of the department of law, Birkbeck College, University of London, where he was also the Corporation of London Professor of Law
Areas of Research
- Contracts
- Film and the Law
- Gender and the Law
- Jurisprudence
Publications (selected)
- Reading the Law: A Critical Introduction to Legal Method and Techniques, Blackwell Publishers 1986.
- Oedipus Lex: Psychoanalysis, History, Law. Philosophy, Social Theory and the Rule of Law, University of California Press 1995.
- Law in the Courts of Love: Literature and Other Minor Jurisprudences, Routledge 1996.
- Law and the Postmodern Mind: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Jurisprudence. Law, Meaning, and Violence (ed. with David Gray Carlson), University of Michigan Press 1998.
- Nietzsche and Legal Theory: Half-Written Laws (with Mariana Valverde), Routledge 2005.
- Law Text Terror (with Lior Barshack), Routledge-Cavendish 2006.
- The Laws of Love: A Brief Historical and Practical Manual (Language, Discourse, Society), Palgrave Macmillan 2006.
- The Scene of the Mass Crime: History, Film and International Tribunals (with Christian Delage), Routledge 2013.
- Visiocracy: On the Futures of the Fingerpost, 39 Critical Inquiry 498-531.
- The Political Theology of Private Law, 11 ICON, pp. 146-161, 2013.
- The Foolosophy of Justice and the Enigma of Law, 24 Yale Journal of Law and Humanities, pp. 141-178, 2013.
- Screening Law, in: M. Pasche & J. Radul (eds.): A Thousand Eyes: Media, Technology, Law and Aesthetics, Sternberg Press 2013.
- Legal Emblems and the Art of Law: Obiter Depicta as the Vision of Governance, Cambridge University Press 2014.
- Legal Rhetoric, in: M. Macdonald (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies, Oxford University Press 2014.