Ryan Goodman (born in Johannesburg, South Africa) 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. Goodman joined the NYU faculty in 2009. 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. He joined the faculty of Harvard Law School in 2002 and received tenure at Harvard in 2006. 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. Legal career Following law school, Goodman clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. 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. Writings 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 Many think this law is obsolete.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