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Peter Goodrich

Peter Goodrich is a Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. He is the managing editor of ''Law and Literature'' and serves on the editorial board of ''Law and Critique''. He is co-editor of the critical legal studies book series 'Discourses of Law' published by Routledge. Goodrich was one of the founding academic staff in the Birkbeck Law School.

Goodrich has been at Cardozo Law School since 2000 and teaches courses in Contracts, Jurisprudence, Film and Law, and Gender and Law. He obtained his LL.B. in 1975 from the University of Sheffield and his Ph.D. in 1984 from the University of Edinburgh with the thesis 'Legal discourse: studies in linguistics, rhetoric and legal analysis'. This was also published as a book by Macmillan, London, 1987. His scholarly work is wide-ranging in its engagement with questions of law, interpretation, history, institution, rhetoric, visuality, and aesthetics. Provided by Wikipedia