Oliver R. Goodenough

Professor Oliver Goodenough is an expert in the law of business, including corporations, entertainment law, intellectual property, securities law, and trademarks. The courses he has taught at Vermont Law School include Corporations, Entertainment Law, Human Nature and the Law, International Business Transactions, Lawyering, and Securities Regulation. He is also extensively involved in applying neuroscience to problems in the law. He has conducted fMRI scanning experiments on the neurological basis of moral reasoning at the University of London.

Professor Goodenough received his BA degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard University in 1975 and his JD degree, cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. After receiving his law degree, he practiced law with the New York firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton for three years. Professor Goodenough joined the firm of Kay, Collyer and Boose of New York in 1981 and was made partner in 1986; he remained full-time at the firm until 1990 and served of counsel until 2003. During three of those years, he was also a lecturer in law at the University of Pennsylvania. He has twice been a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, visiting both in the Faculty of Law and the Department of Zoology. Professor Goodenough joined the Vermont Law School faculty in 1992. He has served as organizer, presenter, and moderator for a wide array of lectures and conferences on topics of behavioral science, intellectual property law, and entertainment law. Professor Goodenough serves as a visiting professor at Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering, and previously served as a visiting professor at the Neurological Department at the Charité Medical Faculty of Humbuldt University in Berlin, Germany. In 2000, he won the Lee Loevinger Jurimetrics Research Award for his work on law and neuroscience and in 2002, the Gruter Institute Bene Merenti Award for outstanding achievements in law and behavioral research.