Arthur Lehman Goodhart KBE QC FBA (1 March 1891 – 10 November 1978) was an American-born academic jurist and lawyer; he was Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford, 1931–51, when he was also a Fellow of University College, Oxford.
[2] Goodhart was educated at the Hotchkiss School, Yale University and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Goodhart was called to the bar by the Inner Temple 1919, and became a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and university lecturer in jurisprudence; he edited the Cambridge Law Journal, 1921–5, and the Law Quarterly Review, 1926.
During WWII, he helped Giles Alington as coordinator of the wartime Short Leave Courses at Balliol College, Oxford.
Students during Goodhart's Mastership of University College included Bob Hawke, matriculated 1953, who was later Prime Minister of Australia.