Ryan Goodman is the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law and Co-Chair of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU Law School. He is also Professor of Politics and Professor of Sociology at NYU. He was the inaugural Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and the Director of the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School. He received a JD from Yale Law School, a Ph.D. from Yale University, and a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. His publications include International Human Rights in Context (Oxford University Press, 2008) (with Henry Steiner & Philip Alston); International Human Rights: Text and Materials (Oxford University Press 2012) (with Philip Alston); Socializing States: Promoting Human Rights Through International Law (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012) (with Derek Jinks); Human Rights, State Compliance, and Social Change: Assessing National Human Rights Institutions (Cambridge University Press, 2012) (ed. with Thomas Pegram); Understanding Social Action, Promoting Human Rights (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012) (ed. with Derek Jinks and Andrew Woods); Controlling the Recourse to War by Modifying Jus in Bello, 53 Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (2009); and Asylum and the Concealment of Sexual Orientation: Where Not to Draw the Line, 44 NYU Journal of International Law 407 (2012). He serves on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law and on the Board of Editors of International Theory. He is a member of the Department of State's Advisory Committee on International Law, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.