William B. Gould IV (born July 16, 1936) is an American lawyer currently the Charles A. Beardsley Professor of Law, Emeritus at Stanford Law School.
[1][2] Gould attended the University of Rhode Island and then Cornell Law School.
[3] An Episcopalian, he was baptized at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Dedham, Massachusetts[4] and confirmed at St. James in Long Branch.
[6][7][8] In this position, he helped to negotiate then end of the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike.
[3] He was responsible for the publication of the diary of his great-grandfather William B. Gould, an escaped slave who served in the Union Navy during the United States Civil War.