Sir Roy Goode
Emeritus Professor of Law
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 (College of Law) 2011. Distinguished Friend of Oxford 2011. Distinguished Senior Fellow, School of Advanced Study, 2011 - . Honorary President of Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London Knighted for services to academic law 2000. Emeritus Professor of Law and Emeritus Fellow of St. John's College 1998- .
Formerly: 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. President of the Council of the International Postgraduate Law School, Belgrade, 2003- . Former Board member of London Court of International Arbitration. on Consumer Credit, 1968-71 and of Monopolies and Mergers Comm 1981-86. Chairman IBA Advertising Advisory Committee, 1976-80; Chairman, Commn on lnt Practice of Int Bar Assn 1993-1997; Chairman, Pension Law Review Committee, 1992-93. Chairman, Commission on International Commercial Practice of International Chamber of Commerce 1993-1997. 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. President of the Society of Public Teachers of Law 1991-1992.
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2011
Roy Goode, 'Perpetual Trustee and Flip Clauses in Swap Transactions' (2011) 127 Law Quarterly Review 1 [...]
A case note on the Court of Appeal decision on the anti-deprivation principle of insolvency law. The case note was referred to at several points in the judgments of the Supreme Court
ISBN: 0023-933X
Roy Goode, Principles of Corporate Insolvency Law (Robert Stevens ed, 4th edn, Thomson Sweet & Maxwell 2011) [...]
After eight years this work has taken account of much case law on corporate insolvency, major changes introduced by the Enterprise Act, a new chapter on the European Insolvency Regulation and an expanded treatment of cross-border insolvency to reflect UNCITRAL Model Law. It is one-third longer than the previous edition.
ISBN: 0421 90450X
Roy Goode, 'Proprietary Liability for Secret Profits - A Reply' (2011) 127 Sweet & Maxwell 493 [...]
A reply to a case note by Justice Hayton on Sinclair Investments (UK) Ltd. v. Versailles Trade Finance Ltd
ISBN: 0023-933X
2009
Roy Goode, Commercial Law (Fully revised by Ewan McKendrick, 4th edn, Lexis Nexis (hardback); Penguin Books (paperback) 2009)
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)
2008
Roy Goode, Legal Problems of Credit and Security (Louise Gullifer ed, 4th edn, Thomson Sweet & Maxwell 2008)
Roy Goode, Official Commentary on the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and Protocol thereto on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment,, Revised Edition (International Institute for the Unification of Private Law 2008) [...]
A comprehensive analysis of the 2001 Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment (the Cape Town Convention) and associated Aircraft Protocol. Written and published pursunt to a resolution of a Diplomatic Conference in Cape Town in November/December 2001. Revised and expanded in 2008
ISBN: 88-86449-18-6
Roy Goode, Official Commentary on the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and Protocol thereto on Matters Specific to Railway Rolling Stock (International Institute for the Unification of Private Law 2008) [...]
A comprehensive analysis of the 2001 Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment (the Cape Town Convention) and the 2007 Luxembourg Protocol on railway rolling stock. Written and published pursuant to a resolution of a Diplomatic Conference held in Luxembourg in February 2007
ISBN: 88-86449-17-8
2006
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)
2003
Roy Goode, 'Are Intangibles Fungible?' (2003) LLP TBA [...]
A slightly revised and expanded version of a contribution to the essays in honour of Bernard Rudden (see other entry)
ISBN: 0106-2945
Roy Goode, 'Assignment' in Ole Lando et al (ed), Principles Of European Contract Law (Kluwer 2003) [...]
Chapter 11 of Part III of Principles Of European Contract Law. A Formulation of Principles and Rules Governing The Assignment of Contractual Claims, With Comments, Illustrations and Notes of Sources. For the concluding part of the PECL, I was the Rapporteur who prepared the text, which then underwent revision at meetings of the Commission on European Contract Law.
ISBN: 90-411-1961-2
2002
Roy Goode, 'Arbitration - Should Courts Get Involved?' (2002) 2002, No. 2 Judicial Studies Institute Journal (Ireland) 33 [...]
A slightly revised version of a paper presented at the 2002 Irish Annual Circuit Conference, it discusses to what extent arbitral awards should be subject to judicial review and compares the legislation in England and Ireland
ISBN: 1649-1262
Roy Goode, 'Are Intangible Assets Fungible' in Peter Birks and Arianna Pretto (eds), Themes in Comparative Law (Oxford University Press 2002) [...]
Analyses the concept of fungibility in relation to intangible property and seeks to show that things often described as fungibles, eg shares, are in fact single assets the subject of co-ownership, so that questions of appropriation and identification do not arise.
ISBN: 0-19-9258566-2
Roy Goode, 'Are Intangible Assets Fungible?' in Themes in Comparative Law in Honour of Bernard Rudden (OUP 2002) [...]
Challenges the accepted notions of fungibility in relation to intangibles and the notion that shares in an asset require separate identification (republished as slightly revised in LMCLQ (see separate entry)
Roy Goode, 'Assignment Clauses in International Contracts' (2002) 2002 No. 3/4 Forum Europeen de law Communication, International Business Law 389 [...]
Discusses typical assignment clauses in contracts and their legal significance
ISBN: 0295.583
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) [...]
Discusses The Principles Of English Commercial Law And Their Influence In Europe
ISBN: 1-84113-276-4
Roy Goode, Official Commentary on the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the Aircraft Equipment Protocol (International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (Unidroit) 2002) [...]
Written and published pursuant to a resolution of a diplomatic conference in Cape Town in November/December 2001 requesting the author to produce an official commentary on the texts adopted at the conference.
ISBN: 88-86449-08-9
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 [...]
Examines the significance of the Cape Town Convention on international interests in mobile equipment in providing a secure international legal regime for interests in aircraft objects, railway rolling stock and space assets, thereby reducing legal risk and borrowing costs and facilitating asset-based financing in developing countries
ISBN: 1124-3694
2001
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 [...]
Describes the major input made by the United Kingdom into the preparation of international instruments in the field of transnational commercial law but the subsequent lack of interest in ratifying them
ISBN: 0020-5893
Roy Goode, 'The Role And Influence Of Non-Binding Rules In The Development Of Transnational Commercial Law' in Propos Impertinents de Droit des Affaires: Melanges en l'honneur de Christian Gavalda (Dalloz 2001)
Roy Goode, 'The Role of the Lex Loci Arbitri in International Commercial Arbitration' (2001) 17 No. 1 Kluwer Law International 19 [...]
Written originally as a contribution to a collection of essays in honour of Professor Francis Reynolds this article discusses the extent to which judgments or orders of a court in the state of origin of arbitral proceedings in an international commercial arbitration should be respected by courts of the state of enforcement, and examines the theory of the delocalised arbitral award.
ISBN: 0957 0411
Research Projects
Interests
Teaching: Transnational Commercial Law
Research: Commercial Law, Banking, Consumer Credit, International Trade, Transnational Commercial Law
