Peter Goodrich is a Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University.
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.
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'.
His scholarly work is wide-ranging in its engagement with questions of law, interpretation, history, institution, rhetoric, visuality, and aesthetics.