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Professor Sir Roy Goode, Roy Goode, CBE, QC, LL B 1954, LL D (Lond) 1976, DCL (Oxon) 2006, FBA, 1988, FRSA 1990, Barrister (IT) 1988, QC 1990, Hon Bencher, Inner Temple 1992- , (Solr 1955-88); Hon. DSc Econ (Lond) 1996; Hon.LLD (University of East Anglia) 2003; Hon LLD

Sir Roy

Visiting Professorial Fellow

Profile

Professor of Law, Queen Mary College, 1971-73, Crowther Professor of Credit and Commercial Law, Queen Mary College, 1973-89, Founder and Director, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, 1979-89, Dean of Fac and Head of Department of Law 1976-80, QMC/ QMW. Norton Rose Prof of English Law and Fellow, St John's College 1990-1998. Visiting Professor, Melbourne University, 1975, Australian Commonwealth Visiting Fellow, 1975; Visiting Professor, Monash University 1984, Falconbridge Visiting Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, 1987; Commonwealth Banking Corporation Visiting Professor, Monash University 1988; Thyssen Visiting Professor, University of Hamburg 1999; Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard University, 1999; G.J. Wiarda Visiting Professor, University of Utrecht, 2003; OK Visiting International Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2014.

President of the Council of the International Postgraduate Law School, Belgrade, 2002-2005. Former Board member of London Court of International Arbitration. Member of Committee on Consumer Credit, 1968-71 and of Monopolies and Mergers Comm 1981-86. Chairman IBA Advertising Advisory Committee, 1976-80; Chairman, Commn on lnt Commercial Practice of International Chamber of Commerce 1993-1997; Chairman, Pension Law Review Committee, 1992-93. Chairman Exec Committee, Justice; Member of Council, Br Inst Int and Comp Law; Member, DTI Committee on Arbitration, 1985- .and of Civil and Fam Committee of Judicial Studies Board. Member of Governing Council of International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) 1988-2003 and Hon Member 2003 - . Hon President of the Uniform law Foundation 2003-2014. President of the Society of Public Teachers of Law 1991-1992. Member Commission on European Contract Law. Member Study Group for preparation of UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (phase 3). UK representative and Chairman or Rapporteur at various diplomatic Conferences to adopt international private law conventions.

Research

  • Commercial Law Centre
  • Human Rights Law

Publications

  • Roy Goode, 'Force majeure under URDG 758' in (ed), Eppur si muove: The age of Uniform Law, Essays in honour of Michael Joachim Bonell to celebrate his 70th birthday (The International Institute for the Unification of Private Law 2016)
  • Roy Goode, 'Private Commercial Law Conventions and Public and Private International Law: The Radical Approach of the Cape Town Convention 2001 and its Protocols' (2016) 65 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 523
  • Roy Goode, The Assignment of Pure Intangibles in the Conflict of Laws (Lloyds Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly 2015)
  • Roy Goode, The Assignment of Pure Intangibles in the Conflict of Laws (Lloyds Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly 2015)
  • Roy Goode, H Kronke and E McKendrick, Transnational Commercial Law: Text, Cases and Materials, 2nd edn (2nd edn Oxford University Press 2015)
  • Roy Goode, Official Commentary on the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and Protocol thereto on Matters Specific to Railway Rolling Stock, 2nd Edition (International Institute for the Unification of Private Law 2014)
  • Roy Goode, 'Security interests in Mobile Equipment: Lawmaking Lessons from the Cape Town Convention' (2014) Adelaide Law Review 59
  • Roy Goode, 'The Assignment of Pure Intangibles in the Conflict of Laws' in Louise Gullifer and Stefan Vogenauer (eds), English and European Perspectives on Contract and Commercial Law (2014)
  • Roy Goode, '“Security Interests in Mobile Equipment: Lawmaking Lessons from the Cape Town Convention” ' (2014) 35 Adelaide Law Rev 59
  • Roy Goode, Official Commentary on the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and Protocol thereto on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment, 3rd Edition (International Institute for the Unification of Private Law 2013)
  • Roy Goode, Official Commentary on the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and Protocol thereto on Matters Specific to Space Assets (International Institute for the Unification of Private Law 2013)
  • Roy Goode, 'The Cape Town Convention and Protocols and the Conflict of Laws' in The Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (ed), A Commitment to Private International Law: Essays in honour of Hans van Loon (Intersentia Publishing Ltd 2013)
  • Roy Goode, 'The treatment of intangible assets under the Cape Town Convention and Protocols ' (2013) 2 The Cape Town Convention Journal 41
  • Roy Goode, 'Flip Clauses - The End of the Affair?' (2012) Law Quarterly Review Sweet & Maxwell 171
  • Roy Goode, 'The priority rules under the Cape Town Convention and Protocols' (2012) 1 Cape Town Convention Journal 95
  • G Affaki and Roy Goode, Guide to the ICC Uniform Rules for Demand Guarantees, URDG 758 (ICC Services Publications 2011)
  • Roy Goode, 'Perpetual Trustee and Flip Clauses in Swap Transactions' (2011) 127 Law Quarterly Review 1
  • Roy Goode, Principles of Corporate Insolvency Law (4th edn Thomson Sweet & Maxwell 2011)
  • Roy Goode, 'Proprietary Liability for Secret Profits - A Reply' (2011) 127 Law Quarterly Review Law Quarterly Review 493
  • Roy Goode, 'Earth, Air and Space: the Cape Town Convention and Protocols and their Contribution to International Commercial Law' in Mads Andenas and Duncan Fairgrieve (eds), Tom Bingham and the Transformation of the Law: A Liber Amicorum (Oxford University Press 2009)
  • Roy Goode, 'The Avoidance of Transactions in Insolvency Proceedings and Restitutionary Defences' in Andrew Burrows and Lord Rodger of Earlsferry (eds), Mapping the Law: Essays in Memory of Peter Birks (OUP 2006)
  • Roy Goode, '"The Harmonisation of dispositive contract and commercial law - should the European Community be involved?!' (2005) Mohr Siebeck Denationalisierung des Privatrechts? 19
  • Roy Goode, H Kanda, K Kreuzer and assisted by C Bernasconi, Explanatory Report on the Hague Convention on the law applicable to certain rights in respect of securities held with an intermediary (Koninklijke Brill NV 2005)
  • Roy Goode, 'Rule, Practice and Pragmatism in Transnational Commercial Law ' (2005) 54 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 539
  • Roy Goode, '"The International Interest as an Autonomous Property Interest"' (2004) European Review of Private Law 18
  • Roy Goode, 'Are Intangibles Fungible?' (2003) LLP Lloyds Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 379
  • Roy Goode, 'Assignment' in Ole Lando et al (ed), Principles Of European Contract Law (Kluwer 2003)
  • Roy Goode, 'Contract and commercial law: The Logic and Limits of Harmonisation' (2003) Ius Commune 1
  • Roy Goode, 'Arbitration - Should Courts Get Involved?' (2002) 2002, No. 2 Judicial Studies Institute Journal (Ireland) 33
  • Roy Goode, 'Are Intangible Assets Fungible?' in (ed), Themes in Comparative Law in Honour of Bernard Rudden (OUP 2002)
  • Roy Goode, 'Assignment Clauses in International Contracts' (2002) 2002 No. 3/4 Forum Europeen de law Communication, International Business Law 389
  • Roy Goode, 'Europe and English Commercial Law' in B.S. Markesinis (ed), The British Contribution to the Europe of the Twenty-First Century (Hart 2002)
  • Roy Goode, 'The Cape Town Convention on international interests in Mobile Equipment: A Driving Force for International Asset-Based Financing' (2002) VII 2002-1 UNIDROIT, Uniform Law Review 3
  • Roy Goode, 'Insularity or Leadership? The Role of the United Kingdom in the Harmonisation of Commercial Law' (2001) 50 Oxford University Press, International & Comparative Law Quarterly 751
  • Roy Goode, 'The Role And Influence Of Non-Binding Rules In The Development Of Transnational Commercial Law' in (ed), Propos Impertinents de Droit des Affaires: Melanges en l'honneur de Christian Gavalda (Dalloz 2001)
  • Roy Goode, 'Usage and its reception in transnational commercial law' (1997) 46 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 1
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