Peter Goodrich

Professor Goodrich was the founding dean of the department of law, Birkbeck College, University of London, where he was also the Corporation of London Professor of Law. He has written extensively in legal history and theory in the areas of law and literature and semiotics and has authored 10 books. He is managing editor of Law and Literature, and on the editorial board of Law and Critique. Recent books include (with Mariana Valverde) Nietzsche and Legal Theory: Half-Written Laws (Routledge, 2006); (with Lior Barshack and Anton Schutz) Law, Text, Terror (Routledge, 2006) and Laws of Love: A Brief Historical and Practical Manual  (Palgrave-Macmillan,2006).