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About Roy Goode
- Sir Royston Miles "Roy" Goode (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.
- He was awarded the OBE in 1972 followed by the CBE in 1994 before being knighted for services to academic law in 2000. He is a fellow of St John's College, Oxford.
- He was formerly the Norton Rose Professor of English law at Oxford University, and is now an Emeritus Professor of Law at the University.
- He was made an honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple in 1988.
- He was presented with an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree by The College of Law in November 2011. Goode spent 17 years in private practice as a solicitor before turning to academia.
- He was educated at Highgate School in North London, and obtained his law degree by external study through the University of London External Programme.In the foreword to a book writing in honour of Goode upon his retirement the story is recounted that he decided to write a legal textbook a relatively youthful age to fill in time during the evening.
- He picked his subject by reading through a legal catalogue of subjects in alphabetical order until he came to a subject upon which no book had been published in the last 20 years - hire purchase.
- Although Goode professed that he knew nothing about hire purchase law, he duly researched and wrote the book, which became the leading text in the field, thereby launching a career of distinguished academic writing.Goode was also a member of the Crowther Committee on Consumer Credit, the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and the DTI Advisory Committee on Arbitration.
- He chaired the Pension Law Review Committee, which was set up following the Maxwell scandal, and which led to a report on Pension Law Reform and the Pensions Act 1995.
- 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".
- This term, as most academic writers would agree, is Roy Goode's.
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