Sir Royston Miles "Roy" Goode CBE

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 QC

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 (born April 6, 1933) is an academic commercial lawyer in the United Kingdom

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. He founded the Centre for Commercial Law Studies

Centre for Commercial Law Studies

The Centre for Commercial Law Studies is part of the School of Law of Queen Mary, University of London. Established in 1980 by Sir Roy Goode, its mission is to develop a body of knowledge and skills in the areas of commercial law —- arbitration, intellectual property, taxation, financial law,...

 at Queen Mary, University of London

Queen Mary, University of London

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. He was awarded the OBE

Order of the British Empire

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 in 1972 followed by the CBE

CBE

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 in 1994 before being knight

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ed for services to academic law in 2000.

He is a fellow of St John's College, Oxford

St John's College, Oxford

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. He was formerly the Norton Rose

Norton Rose

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 Professor of English law

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 at Oxford University, and is now an Emeritus Professor of Law at the University. He was made an honorary Bencher

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 of the Inner Temple

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 in 1988.

Goode spent 17 years in private practice as a solicitor

Solicitor

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 before turning to academia. Goode never actually attended university as a student, but qualified as a solicitor through work experience.

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 the Pensions Act 1995

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. He was previously chairman of the executive committee of JUSTICE

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, the all-party human rights and law reform organisation, and a member of the Governing Council of UNIDROIT

UNIDROIT

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. 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.

Publications

• Commercial Law 4th Edition (2009)
• Consumer Credit Law and Practice (General Editor)
• Consumer Credit Reports (General Editor)
• Principles of Corporate Insolvency Law
  Principles of Corporate Insolvency Law
  Principles of Corporate Insolvency Law by Roy Goode of the University of Oxford is a leading textbook on UK insolvency law...
  
  (2005)
• Legal Problems of Credit and Security
• Payment Obligations in Commercial and Financial Transactions