Sir Royston Miles "Roy" Goode CBE KC FBA (born 6 April 1933) is an academic commercial lawyer in the United Kingdom.
He founded the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary, University of London.
[3] Goode spent 17 years in private practice as a solicitor before turning to academia.
He was previously chairman of the executive committee of JUSTICE, the all-party human rights and law reform organisation, and a member of the Governing Council of UNIDROIT.
He is also known for his writings on documentary letters of credit and demand guarantees; he has called these financial instruments "abstract payment undertakings".