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Ryan Goodman

Ryan Goodman (YouTube – Bluesky – LinkedIn) is founding co-editor-in-chief of Just Security. He is the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law. He served as Special Counsel to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense (2015-16).

Ryan is also a Professor of Politics and Professor of Sociology at NYU. He was the inaugural Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Harvard Law School. He received a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.D. from Yale University, and a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of the Department of State’s Advisory Committee on International Law, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the US Naval War College’s Board of Advisers for International Law Studies, a Distinguished Fellow at the National Institute of Military Justice, and a former member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law.

Areas of Expertise: National Security Law, International Law, Law of Armed Conflict, Use of Force, Human Rights Law.

 

Articles by this author:

The hand of a person in a suit peels back a stage curtain.
John Elias, a career official in the Justice Department's antitrust division, is sworn in before the House Judiciary committee hearing on "Oversight of the Department of Justice: Political Interference and Threats to Prosecutorial Independence", on Capitol Hill on June 24, 2020 in Washington DC.
U.S. Attorney General nominee William Barr testifies at his confirmation hearing as his image is shown on a television monitor behind him January 15, 2019 in Washington, DC.
National Security Advisor John Bolton
Trump walks with US Attorney General William Barr (L), US Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper (C), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark A. Milley (R), and others from the White House to St. John's Church where tear gas was used to clear the crowd on June 1, 2020 in Washington DC. Only one person in the background has a face mask. No one is social distanced.
Donald Trump speaking and Michael Flynn in the background
Rep. Jim Jordan, (R-OH) speaks to Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) during break during a House Judiciary Committee hearing questioning staff lawyer Stephen Castor, representing the minority Republicans, and staff lawyer Daniel Goldman, representing the majority Democrats, in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill December 9, 2019 in Washington, DC.
Soldiers attached to the 101st Resolute Support Sustainment Brigade from the 1034th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, Iowa National Guard and 10th Mountain, 2-14 Infantry Battalion, Ghost Forward Support Company load onto a Chinook helicopter to head out and execute missions across the Combined Joint Operations Area- Afghanistan
A member of the Army National Guard checks his phone at a COVID-19 drive-thru testing site on April 20, 2020 in Brooklyn, New York.
A collage of medical professionals wearing face masks and others hand making masks.
Side by side photographs of Jared Kushner meeting with Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, 666 Fifth Ave, and bank notes reading Qatar Central Bank.

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