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Ryan Goodman

Ryan Goodman (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:

Brianna Rosen with plants in the background
The outside relief at the National Archives in Washington DC.
Bookshelves full with books organized by color.
Side by side images of the speakers from the event “Roads Not Taken – Reflections on the 9/11 Anniversary” hosted by Just Security and the Knight First Amendment Institute. Jameel Jaffer, Elisa Massimino, Anthony D. Romero, Kenneth Roth, and Linda Sarsour.
Afghan residents and family members of the victims gather next to a damaged vehicle inside a house, day after a US drone airstrike in Kabul on August 30, 2021.
Two tall greyscale rectangles cast dark shadows representing the Twin Towers.
A Taliban fighter with a gun patrols along a street in Kabul on August 17, 2021. The flag of the Taliban stands in a traffic cone at a vehicle checkpoint.
The dome of the U.S. Capitol building is seen behind a barbed wire fence on January 14, 2021. The barbed wire was installed after the attempted coup on January 6, 2021.
Trump speaks as White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows stands behind him prior to Trump's Marine One departure from the South Lawn of the White House July 29, 2020 in Washington, DC.
The dome of the U.S. Capitol Buidling and the US flag.
Side by side photos of Guantanamo Bay and the DOJ.
Allen Weisselberg, Trump Organization CFO, leaves Manhattan Criminal Court after his arraignment in State Supreme Court on July 01, 2021 in Lower Manhattan in New York City.

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